If you enjoy tasting the finest of foods that have been all time traditional favorites and you want to know how to prepare them yourself, this cookbook is for you. This book opens up the doors of cooking and makes you an instant expert. Contains the best chili and fried chicken you can imagine. I create 11 to 13 different pies every holiday and the pies comes from recipes right here. People think I am the best cook around, I wouldn't be without this book. The soups will imspire you to not only learn how to create these soups but come up with inventions of your own. Seriously, this book is a must have for someone that really wants to learn how to cook and needs a great recipe that will inspire them to continue. I have a whole library of cookbooks but this is my favorite one and the one that gave me the encouragement to make cooking my hobby. The chicken frickase is the all time best chicken recipe in the world. Make that and mashed potatoes and corn and you will have any man coming back for more.

I have all the series of "The Beautiful Cookbooks" and the America and the Mexico one I believe are among the best ones.

Great cookbook with wonderfull recipes that are easy to reproduce. Currently looking for another copy to purchase as the moving company lost a considerable amount of our personal items and included was our favorite cookbook.

This is a great book. I'll be the second to admit, after my hubby, that I'm a lousy cook. But I have used this book with great results! Not to mention that the author is just plain funny. If you like baked beans, cole slaw, potato salad, brownies and other typical picnic food, this is a great place to look for a new twist that works. It includes about 12 different recipes for each of the featured foods.

I grill nine months a year on my 22 inch charcoal Weber Grill. My failures have been few and far between soley because of this book. Cooking with Fire and Smoke is an indispensible resource for the serious "griller". It has a thorough introduction for the novice on types of woods, grills, and smokers. It is well organized with chapters on poultry, meats, fish, vegetables, etc... For speedy reference, Cooking with Fire and Smoke concludes with a chapter on rubs and a chapter on marinades. All of which have appeared in the preceding text. If you like to grill the purchase of this definitive cookbook is a must!