Word: cookbooks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...relatives. Adkins, like many of the other miners, feeds his four children with the help of federal food stamps ($248 a month). Before the strike, his wife Louise spent $375 a month on groceries. The family is still well fed, but she closely follows the instructions in her favorite cookbook, Mountain Measures. "If the recipe says it serves six, it's exactly six," she says. "It don't lie. No more scraps for the dog." One of her favorite dishes is "sawmill gravy," known to other Cabin Creek families as "dough sop": bacon grease, flour, water, evaporated milk...
...pleased you chose our cookbook, A Mostly French Food Processor Cookbook, for special mention. But alas my heart sank faster than a souffle when I discovered you left out an important ingredient-me, the coauthor...
...ascent to gourmandise is no longer a matter of picking up a cookbook and buying a set of copper pots. Present and would-be home chefs support hundreds of cooking schools in the U.S. They are mostly very good?notably James Beard's and Lydie Marshall's classes in Manhattan, or Mary Nell Reek's in Houston, or Rita Leinwand's in Los Angeles. A five-lesson program can cost as much as $350. Boston alone supports 29 cooking schools, teaching everything from dicing to making Dampfnudeln. Whether for culinary kudos or to master grande cuisine, Americans sometimes spend...
...Classic Italian Cookbook by Marcella Kazan (Knopf; $12.95) and The Fine Art of Italian Cooking by Giuliano Bugialli (Quadrangle; $15). Almost a college course in Italian cuisine...
...Hesses give Fannie Farmer, the doyenne of cookbook creators, a sound tongue-lashing for starting a trend which transformed the art of cooking into a cut-and-dried duty...