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Robie : Thank you for raising this topic. My wife and I have been dragging boxes of cookbooks around the world with us, for entirely different reasons. My wife used to love to cook and they provided a constant reference for her; myself, I love to tackle them like a good detective story. From the recipes, it's possible to construct a whole world based on what the author likes, what they have omitted, what pretensions they pose, etc. While I wont give up an Agatha Christie for The New York Times Cookbook, they do provide many hours of interesting reading for us both. Here's my favourites : Larousse Gastronomique (various publishers) which gives an alphabetical list to culinary questions and often provides recipes to go with them Canadian Farm Women's Country Classics, from the Women of Unifarm. Marvelous "self published" cookbook that proves some 1250 country-style recipes. Fun not only for those that work (which is most), and for those few which leave out a couple of items. Thursday Night Feast Cookbook. Natural foods of the Eastern Hemisphere (China, Japan, Indonesia, India, and the Middle East), by Sigrid M. Shepard. It, and Gloria Miller's Thousand Recipe Chinese Cookbook are wonderful in providing lots of information on "how to do it" drawings and commentaries on why it was done that way. More-with-less and Extending the Table, 2 cookbooks from the Mennonite Central Committee, in Pennsylvania which provides not only recipes to extend food so that more will be available to all, but also provides anecdotes and lots of "secrets" Then, my all-time favorites, 2 cookbooks written by my Mom (Esther Sande) and my Auntie Dorothy (Dorothy Arnason) to help a new bachelor out in times of need, with lots of those rich recipes I grew up with as a kid. Sorry, they are not available in bookstores, but I do have a tradition of adding to them when someone donates a favorite recipe. In return I provide them with a copy. Now, if I could only find a good recipe for sweet & sour.......... Earl -- Earl Sande, Upper School Librarian, International School of Tanganyika, United Nations Road, Post Office Box 2651, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (e-mail : sandes@wilken-dsm.com) =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-= To quit LM_NET (or set NOMAIL or DIGEST), Send an email message to listserv@listserv.syr.edu In the message write EITHER: 1) SIGNOFF LM_NET 2) SET LM_NET NOMAIL or 3) SET LM_NET DIGEST * NOTE: Please allow time for confirmation from Listserv. For LM_NET Help & Archives see: http://ericir.syr.edu/lm_net/ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=