Boston Cooking-School cook book vs Joy of Cooking: Which Should You Read?

Cover of Boston Cooking-School cook book Boston Cooking-School cook book Fannie Merritt Farmer · 1896 ★★★★☆ 3.8 807 pages · ≈ 14 h 57 m · Demanding

Basic American cookbook, specializing in New England recipes.

1★2★3★4★5★
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Cover of Joy of Cooking Joy of Cooking Irma S. Rombauer · 1931 ★★★★☆ 4.1 883 pages · ≈ 16 h 21 m · Challenging

John and Megan developed more than six hundred new recipes for this edition, tested and tweaked thousands of classic recipes, and updated every section of every chapter to reflect the latest ingredients and techniques…

1★2★3★4★5★

The verdict

How to choose

Scores by source

Boston Cooking-School cook bookJoy of Cooking
Goodreads — 4.1 (202748)
Hardcover — 4.2 (21)
Google Books 3.5 (3) 5.0 (2)
Apple Books — 4.0 (42)

Reception

Boston Cooking-School cook bookJoy of Cooking
Ratings 3 202748
Editions 98 67
Film adaptations 1 1
Want to read — 206998
Written reviews — 1434
Wikipedia attention — 5215
Pages 807 883

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