[LMB] AKICOTL: Cookbook?

[Adam Ek]

On Apr 26, 2007, at 7:12 PM, PAT MATHEWS wrote:

>
> I am older, single, and live alone - I will make recipes for 4 and  
> eat them
> several times running, but what I'm looking for is a cookbook with  
> - (1)
> simple! (2) healthy (whole foods, fresh foods) etc)
> (3) traditional! recipes. So far every one I've looked at it's  
> "pick one."
> Or at best "Pick 2"

Fannie Farmer Cookbook, aka Boston Cooking School cookbook

>> This classic American cooking reference includes 1,849 recipes,  
>> including everything from “after-dinner coffee”—which Farmer notes  
>> is beneficial for a stomach “overtaxed by a hearty meal”—to  
>> “Zigaras à la Russe,” an elegant puff-pastry dish. Bartleby.com  
>> chose the 1918 edition because it was the last edition of the  
>> cookbook authored completely by Farmer.
>> http://www.bartleby.com/87/0001.html

My grandmother used an early edition. My mom used a 1960's edition. I  
use a 1980's edition and a reprint of the 1896 edition <http:// 
www.amazon.com/Boston-Cooking-School-Cookbook-Fannie-Merritt/dp/ 
0517186780> .

Adam Ek
adamek at mac.com