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From: withrow@tonto.DEC (Robert Withrow)
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Subject: Re: Re: cookbook suggestions...
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> Strictly from the criterion of `safety' I have found vintage '55-'65
> Betty Crocker books to be the best, although they always seem to over
> cook things by 20%.

I should have known that someone would intensely disagree with my intense
disagreement on the safety of Joy. :-)

I guess that shows that cookbooks are more personal than politics.  I recently
read two different reviews of the same cookbook in two different magazines;
One reviewer loved it, and the other hated it.  Often over the same points.

Perhaps the best advice is that there probably is no cookbook that is
ABSOLUTELY safe for all cooks, and the best bet is to `feed your mistakes
to your family' before you make it for company.