Adventures in Good Cooking

My mother recently donated a bunch of books to my collection of junk. Many of these books are rather drab and dusty from years of neglect. One of these books is "Adventures in Good Cooking" from Duncan Hines published in 1959.

I've read through most of it (I love to cook), and found it very interesting. There are no pictures and no simple recipes. This is not for the novice cook and not for the faint of heart. But it is definitely educational. In particular the charts for equivalent wieghts and measures are very useful.

So far I've tried a few of the recipes and quite frankly they are superb. No nonsense stuff that will go well on any table. The recipes are taken from restaraunts all over the United States and each one carries something special. Of course you have to know a little about the terminology or else it reads like gibberish, but I suppose that is a lot of the charm of the book for me.