cover image The New Doubleday Cookbook

The New Doubleday Cookbook

Jean Anderson, Elaine Hanna. Doubleday Books, $35 (967pp) ISBN 978-0-385-19577-5

A huge, wide-ranging, updated, substantially expanded version of the 1975 Tastemaker Awardwinning Doubleday Cookbook, this compendious reference work makes up in sheer volume for what it lacks in grace of layout and design. It boasts over 4000 recipes running from the inevitable and familiar to the international and exotic. It spills over with information on nutrition, on equipment such as blenders, processors and convection and microwave ovens, with all manner of charts and tables, judicious guidance on calorie, sodium and cholesterol counts, with sensible advice on saving time and money, reliable counsel on assembling a well-furnished kitchen and well-stocked pantry and freezer. A noteworthy contemporary guide to the world of food and cooking. October 18