Which edition of Joy of Cooking do you prefer

[Ellen Forradalom]

For those of you who turn to the J of C.

[bicentennial_baby]

1. 1973

:)

[TygrBright]

3. Yup, that's the goodie! n/t

[fortyfeetunder]

4. that's the one I have

I bought the new one but use the old one more...

[Tangerine LaBamba]

2. Mine goes back to 1968

I wouldn't part with it for anything. All the stained pages, the worn covers, they are all stories.

I got mine when my future husband enrolled me, a resident of Maine, in the Cookbook-Of-The-Month Club, using his address in Ohio as my home address. Back then, the woman had to be a resident of Ohio if she wanted to get married there, so that was how we began to establish my residency.

I got Joy of Cooking, the Larousse Gastronomique, the NY Times Cookbook, and two others whose identity is as lost to memory as is that marriage.

He's gone, but I got the cookbooks.