The All New Good Housekeeping Cook Book

This All New Good Housekeeping Cookbook is filled with more than 1500 delicious recipes, plus insider tips from 36 famous chefs, and techniques--including step-by-step photos. This book offers... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1588160408
• ISBN13: 9781588160409
• Release Date: December 2001
• Publisher: Hearst
• Length: 832 Pages
• Weight: 4.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 1.3" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Bought by mistake

As part of a bookclub, I forgot to inform them that I did not want this selection, so they sent it. That was three years ago and I never really looked at the book until this past thanksgiving. Since them I've used it frequently and it's amazing!! I first tried the after thanksgiving turkey soup, it was great, I then tried scalloped potatoes (which I'd usually failed at before), and they were good, then I tried the simple pasta with peas, and again very good. As I've looked through the other recipes, there are so many I've marked to be tested. I'm glad I got this book by mistake....and hate that it took so long for me to give it a try. I highly recommend this book!!

Splendid general cookbook

I bought this book earlier this year and it didn't take long before it became one of the most frequently used cookbooks in my growing collection--and certainly my favorite general soup-to-nuts cookbook yet published. It contains the three most important qualities a good basic cookbook should possess: 1) an unparalleled selection of great recipes that perfectly reflect the way real people eat today, from the classic to the contemporary, from the tried-and-true American to the adventureously international, from the sinfully rich to the saintly healthy, geared toward cooks of all skill levels; 2) a wealth of information about food, food safety and storage, and cooking techniques and equipment; and 3) page after page of glorious color photos (and line drawings) illustrating both finished products and the more complex techniques. Well-organized and comprehensive, it's refreshingly unfussy as well--it won't make you feel like a culinary philistine if you sometimes substitute frozen veggies for fresh or canned stock for homemade. Every dish I've made from this volume has turned out scrumptiously. I've found a couple of minor typographical errors here and there, but other than that this book is a perfect investment--a veritable one-volume cooking school. Buy it!

Excellent All-Purpose Cookbook

This book has a wide variety of recipes, which are easy to follow. Everything I have made from it has turned out perfectly. The pictures are beautiful, and the extra tips that appear throughout are very helpful. It's easy to plan a whole menu from this book, from appetizers to dessert!

Learning cook.

Am a 71 year old learning cook. The book has an excellent selection of recipes. The recipes are clear and easy to follow. Everything I have made has turned out. Very pleased.

Great Book for beginners and experienced cooks

The reason I chose this book to add to my cook book collection is because it contains a recipe for Baked Ziti. I have looked high and low, at the backs of all of the pasta packages and in dozens of cook books for this particular recipe. I then decided that the first book I found with BZ in it, I would purchase. So I did and was not disappointed - there are many great recipes in this book as well as tips from experienced cooks. I plan on sending this to my son - the younger generation likes pictures in heir cookbooks!Yes, it is a heavy book, but so what? I should point out that I learned to cook through Julia Child and I am accustomed to good food. This book looks not to disappoint.