The New Antoinette Pope School Cookbook [Hardcover]

Antoinette and Francois Pope (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 930 pages
• Publisher: Macmillan Pub Co; 1St Edition edition (October 1973)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0025980602
• ISBN-13: 978-0025980600
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.7 x 1.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,253,666 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Classic cooking from a classic cooking school, November 21, 1997

By A Customer

This review is from: The New Antoinette Pope School Cookbook (Hardcover)

Growing up in Chicago, home of the Pope cooking school, I usedto read my mother's copy of Pope's cookbook while lying under thecoffee table, watching TV, dreaming of being Mary Richards and serving hot canapes and party dips. My sister got a copy of it for her wedding shower in 1969; when she couldn't find a copy of it for me in the late 1980s, she purposefully xeroxed every chapter (except "Appetizers") on 3-hole punch paper and gave me the copy in a binder as an apartment-warming present. I *finally* found a copy of my very own in a used bookstore in Bethesda, MD (the young bride to whom it was inscribed was obviously not a cook; the pages were pristine and the spine wasn't cracked).

Maybe my love of this particular cookbook is based in emotion and memory. Maybe it's grounded in the range of recipes (from Swedish meatballs to pastry) and the simple communication of basic cooking techniques. Pope's style is classier than Betty Crocker, but not as high-falooting as Julia Child.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best cookbook ever, January 29, 2002

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M. White (Fairbanks, AK United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The New Antoinette Pope School Cookbook (Hardcover)

This cookbook has all the basics and all the classics. My mother's copy has been used so much it has fallen apart into many peices. A well loved treasure at our house.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Foundation for a lifetime of pleasureable eating, August 14, 1999

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[e-mail] (Portland, OR) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The New Antoinette Pope School Cookbook (Hardcover)

This cookbook has been passed on for 3 generations in my family and built the foundation for a fabulous appreciation of eating. It will serve as the building blocks for developing culinary instincts in my own children.