I grew up with Fanny Farmer as the central cookbook around which the kitchen revolved. On my own, I ended up with the Bittman. I really like it. I don't know from Joy of Cooking.
Some people juggle geese!
Wash ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
Natter 69: Practically names itself.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
§ ita § - Nov 11, 2011 9:17:31 am PST #6047 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Hil R. - Nov 11, 2011 9:17:53 am PST #6048 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I just let my students go early. Only about half of them were here anyway, and they all just looked so exhausted. I gave them a short "stay safe and think before you act" talk before they left, as I'm sure everyone else did. Also a bit of "this is what most of the country currently thinks about you. I know that's not really you. Just keep that in mind, and know that everyone is watching."
Jessica - Nov 11, 2011 9:19:45 am PST #6049 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Jesse - Nov 11, 2011 9:24:23 am PST #6050 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Ha!
meara - Nov 11, 2011 9:25:26 am PST #6051 of 30001
My mom definitely had JoC, but I think I only have a Good Housekeeping book (plus other, more specific ones, mostly just for baking) as a general sort of cookbook. But then I'm not much of a cook.
SuziQ - Nov 11, 2011 9:27:13 am PST #6052 of 30001
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
I have Betty Crocker, Joy of Cooking, Frannie Farmer, and the New York Times cookbook. Plus other specialty cookbooks. I actually look at them occasionally.
Ginger - Nov 11, 2011 9:31:44 am PST #6053 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I figured copies materialized on their own as soon as a kitchen came into existence.
I have two, the '60s revision I got when my own kitchen came into existence, and the original edition I grew up with, including the instructions for cooking possum and squirrel.
Cockaigne, I just learned, is a medieval mythical land of plenty, an place of extreme luxury devoted to gluttony and ease.
Jessica - Nov 11, 2011 9:32:17 am PST #6054 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I never really though about how many cookbooks I call by their authors' first names, but apparently that's a thing I do. Irma, Craig, Marcella, Fannie...
JZ - Nov 11, 2011 9:33:57 am PST #6055 of 30001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
I see that Ron Paul has designated this an important day. It's UFO Reveal Day
Well, damn. At first, glancing, read, I thought that RuPaul had designated this UFO Reveal Day, which was just deliciously surreal and charming. Two descriptors which are just never really applicable to any declaration by Ron Paul.
Sophia Brooks - Nov 11, 2011 9:34:34 am PST #6056 of 30001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I grew up with the Betty Crocker cookbook- the one that was all about adding cans of mushroom soup to things! I mostly made cookies, though.