The Cook's Companion (Hardcover)

from dajashby

If you were only allowed one cookbook this encyclopaedic work would have to be it. The depth of her research is amazing, and the recipes are well-written and very doable. This is not a book just for Australians. OK so kangaroo isn't available overseas, but it isn't easy to get hold of in Melbourn...

from Eurydice2

I had to buy the new edition of this fabulous resource even though I already have the original 1996 ed. The 2004 (striped cover) edition is far more useful even than the original. Not only does it have about 300 new recipes, but it is much better indexed, so you can find all the hundreds of "marg...

from dajashby

If you were only allowed one cookbook this encyclopaedic work would have to be it. The depth of her research is amazing, and the recipes are well-written and very doable. This is not a book just for Australians. OK so kangaroo isn't available overseas, but it isn't easy to get hold of in Melbourn...

from MarthaJeanne

This is very ingredient oriented, and there is a lot of useful information about the ingredients that otherwise is only found in books on specific ingredients or groups of ingredients. As part of this, most ingredients have several recipes, and quite varied ones. Such a relief for some of my favo...

from dajashby

If you were only allowed one cookbook this encyclopaedic work would have to be it. The depth of her research is amazing, and the recipes are well-written and very doable. This is not a book just for Australians. OK so kangaroo isn't available overseas, but it isn't easy to get hold of in Melbourn...