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What is "appropriate"? A cookbook of early Amerian recipes set in the Baskerville type of the colonial period is appropriate. The cover of a brochure for modern Knowles furniture which destroys our perception of the letter K and transforms it into a bending dynamic structure is appropriate. The NH symbol on a New Haven railway car, though it can be perceived in several ways (for example, with the figure-ground relationships of the letters changing), nevertheless strongly resists abstraction into its component parts. For a whizzing box car, that is appropriate...
...study the cuisine of France under a chef who once worked with Auguste Escoffier. Soon she had established her own cooking school-Ecole des Trois Gourmandes-with two French women as partners, who still run it. After twelve years of preparation, the three of them published in 1961 a cookbook called Mastering the Art of French Cooking...
...manage these things in the depth of the country?" That French Feeling. But the best (and bestselling) American cookbooks are still the basics-The Joy of Cooking, Good Housekeeping, The Boston Cooking School Cookbook (Fannie Farmer), Better Homes & Gardens and Betty Crocker, all of which have sold in the hundreds of thousands. Constantly updated (Betty Crocker and Good Housekeeping both have fresh versions coming out in the autumn), all contain material on high-altitude baking, regional dishes, convenient short cuts, new electrical appliances and so forth, making most specialty books conspicuous superfluities...
...Choke a Duckling." The newest and perhaps best for the cook first venturing into the intricacies of French cooking, is an extraordinarily thorough cookbook called Mastering the Art of French Cooking (Knopf; $10), written by three women-one American and two French. Explaining the chemical processes that make cooking succeed (or fail), it explains in detail what most French cookbooks assume everyone knows, and carefully tells the American housewife how to adapt to the fundamental differences between French and American materials...
Mixed Bag. If a housewife is squeamish about strangulation, there is a handful of books and writers that provide an adequately mixed bag of recipes for those of more modest ambitions. James Beard, author of everything from a basic cookbook to Cook It Outdoors, is a gifted milker of the cooking-boom...