Sunset Good Cook's Handbook (A Ready Reference & Time-Saver)

By Sunset Magazines & Books and Suzanne N. Mathison

THis is a fabulous book for any cook..beginning or otherwise. It presents the basics of cooking well..they are not specific recipes but this book gives you a solid foundation to spring from. I have an... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0376022027
• ISBN13: 9780376022028
• Release Date: January 1986
• Publisher: Lane Publishing
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.3" x 10.8"

Customer Reviews

An out-of-print gem for the serious cook

This book has been a necessary part of my cooking library for years. It would seem pointless to recommend an out-of-print book, but the fact is that if you find a copy in good shape, you'll quickly find it indispensable. Mine was missing for a number of years, and despite my best efforts I never found anything that was a reasonable replacement for it. (The only reason I'm giving it four stars instead of five is the difficulty of finding a copy now that it's been out of print for many years.)So what is it? It is to the home cook what the gamemaster's screen is to a role playing GM, or an O'Reilly pocket reference is to a computer geek. It is most of what you need in as concise a form as humanly possible -- tables of information on cooking, organized by ingredient and technique, wrapped up in a convenient book a quarter inch thick. Of course it's a bit outdated; there's a lot of information on microwaving that is really only useful for vegetables, and some coverage of things that have slipped into the general kitchen over the last 20 years like Asian pasta would be nice. It lacks recipes for sauces and such, but I don't think that's a big deal since actual recipes are somewhat outside the scope of the book.So my take? Until Sunset either reissues this in an updated form or someone else comes up with a similar book, track down a copy of this book any way you can and keep it in as good a condition as possible when using it on a daily basis. You'll be very glad to have it.