Product Description

Information-packed, easy-to-use, straightforward, and no-nonsense, The Good Housekeeping Illustrated Cookbook is an invaluable tool in the kitchen -- as essential to culinary success as a reliable oven, sharp knives, and a trusty frying pan. It features more than 1,400 recipes -- for appetizers, soups, eggs, pasta, meat, poultry, sauces, breads, candy, desserts, and beverages -- as well as 5,000 step-by-step line drawings and a color photograph gallery of more than 900 dishes. All recipes have been triple-tested in the famous kitchens of the Good Housekeeping Institute, ensuring success and great taste.Other outstanding features of the book include:

-- Comprehensive glossary of food and cooking terms

-- Illustrated dictionary of herbs and spices

-- Calorie counts for each recipe

-- Complete menus and advice for entertaining with style and ease

-- Critical facts about different kinds of food, cooking times, cutting and carving directions, and storage proceduresA bible for today's modern cool The Good Housekeeping Illustrated Cookbook also includes microwave cooking, fast and easy menus for all occasions, time-saving shopping and preparation tips, and nutrition data.