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The Wooden Spoon Book of Home-Style Soups, Stews, Chowders, Chilis and Gumbos: Favorite Recipes from The Wooden Spoon Kitchen

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The Wooden Spoon cookbook offers a wide range of recipes for soups and stews. The recipes are easy to follow and, unlike many specialty cookbooks, rely on simple, everyday ingedients that most basic kitchens will have on hand or at least that can be obtained from any corner grocery store.

Many novice cooks fear that making soup will be a long, involved process. The Wooden Spoon cookbook should put that fear to rest.

The book contains several useful features, especially helpful for the those new to the soup making process, but also as a refresher for the veteran, including a glossary of terms and suggestions for basic ingredients to keep on hand for when the spirit moves one to make soup or a stew.

The occasional anecdote or interjected comment about a recipe or its origins adds to the cookbook's value, making it both interesting reading and a great addition to the kitchen bookshelf.

Marilyn Moore writes a good cookbook - and this one lives up to expectations. As the previous reviewer said, even the novice soup maker/cook will beable to follow the recipies. This is an 'everyday cookbook' - recipies simple enough (that taste good) that you could use it weekly - with enough variation that you could easily feed a vegetarian - or find recipies to cut down on your own family's meat consumption. (And, of course, chili recipies if you want to keep it in). And, by 'everyday', I mean that recipies could easily be used for special ocasions and guests. The Corn Chowder with fresh corn... *sigh* - heaven in a bowl.
Also included are a handful of good, simple recipies to serve alongside the soup.

This has been my favorite general cookbook for almost 20 years. Paperback and used often, you can imagine the condition it's in. I was delighted to find it listed on Amazon! I don't have the author's other books, but I intend to get them asap.There is a wide variety of recipes, none of them are very difficult, and she has put many personal comments with them I have many cookbooks, but this is the only one that is literally falling apart from use.

Ruth Sims

This cookbook is full of some of the best soups & stews you'll ever have. Try the KC Steak soup.. it is to die for!

Easy to follow recipes. Well worth the time and money. Success encourages you to try new and different recipes---you'll have great success with this book.

I only briefly looked through. Let the man who runs the cafe downstairs borrow & I have not gotten it back yet. I guess he likes the recipes. We will see if any of them show up on his menu.