"Joy of Cooking" is probably on your mom's shelf at home in an older edition. The original cookbook bible of American home cuisine by Irma Rombauer has been a pillar of home cookbooks since the Bobbs-Merrill published edition in 1936. Later the book was updated by her daughter Marion and there have been nine editions (the very first, a privately published book.). I have one of the older wartime editions from my mother-in-law. The book is chatty and yet has a lot of good advice for the home cook as well as some recipes that today you would never make, even for a Facebook Page devoted to retro (and dubious) cuisine. Irma Rombauer's history is a brave one--she was widowed in her fifties, her husband was tragically a suicide and at first, she created this book privately out of her own notes. But it became a life's work and to this day, her family is still involved in its publication. By the way, it's true the TABLE OF CONTENTS doesn't work. Kindle editions must be the red-headed stepchildren of publishers. So often, tables and drawings are rendered too small and not able to be zoomed larger. In this case. the t.o.c. didn't make it to final release or someone THOUGHT (wrong) the book would be searched or the hyperlinks used instead. I hope they update it.
Badly needing an update, this ninth edition took almost a decade to produce and the recipes are tested. The sections on "batterie de cuisine" --your equipment and on nutrition and technique are updated and useful for the starting cook. The chapter has good advice based on new science on healthful foods and reading nutrition labels. The diagrams for table settings for formal and informal dinners was retained but updated. And more microwave recipes are included, which was needed as they are now standard in almost all kitchens.
I personally love the chapter on party planning--children's parties, brunches, clubs, afternoon tea. There is some chatty and helpful hints for most occasions, as well as menus, which even if you don't copy outright, you can use as "yeast starter" for ideas of your own.
If you use the Kindle edition, the menus are hyperlinked to the recipes themselves. I normally don't like Kindle cookbooks for reference books, preferring the print copy, but in this case, I can heartily recommend the Kindle edition, especially if you are the kind of person that pulls up recipes on your phone or Kindle or PC.
There's also a section on "cook for a day, eat for a week." This may be the hidden treasure, because a lot of family spend a good deal of money on take-out, carry-out and eating out. Not only is take-out food less healthy and more apt to have too much salt and fat, it can get boring. You can add more nutritious and varied foods by cooking your own--but who wants to cook after a day's work. Even if you share the cooking, it's a burden and everyone is over-scheduled and tired. These recipes will fill your refrigerator with lots of good things you can reheat. And you can make several dishes, say, one vegan or vegetarian for the one person at home who refuses to eat what everyone else is having.
There IS an index to the dishes that are vegan, though I would not recommend this book alone for vegans as it's for omnivores.
Old funny things that required cans of soup are gone, replaced by whole food, Asian, Middle Eastern and Hispanic favorites. like Shakshouka, Migas and overnight steel cut oats. There is also a section on drinks for entertaining.
I was absolutely thrilled with the update of this classic. I tended not to use my old edition very much (I won't open a can of soup in any recipe) so this book is a welcome classic come to new life. Highly recommended.
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Not my mom's cookbook.
If you want your "mom's" Joy of Cooking, this is not the one for you. It is wider and does not give the interesting details and information about foods. I am happy to have this one, but disappointed it is not the version I expected. Sometimes too much effort is put in to making something better when it should simply be just left alone. With different versions of the same book to choose from, it's a crap shoot to get the one you want.
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