For years and years, a gift of a Betty Crocker or Better Homes and Gardens cookbook was a standard shower gift that was received by many soon-to-be brides, and a very welcome one, too. Over the years I've seen these older ones at estate sales and I'll thumb through them, see all of the splatters on various well-worn pages, and smile.
I have a TON of cookbooks. Of all the ones I have, if I was forced to cull only a few, that one would be the very last to go.
I sure do agree with you. The BH&G was another basic, textbook cookbook, until it wasn't.
Yep. I'm a big fan of both the magazine and their cookbooks and the America's Test Kitchen/Cook's Country cookbooks, both of which are a part of Cook's. I love how they get into the science of cooking, the "why" of things.