After Second Helpings, this is how I learnt to cook!

Almost 25 years later, still learning............

. . . and the reading continues! It's still one of my favorite cookbooks.

A classic, filled with great, slightly dated recipes. One of my favorite things that I own.

This was the first cookbook I had that was my very own and not my mom's. It's a sentimental favorite as well as a solid basic cookbook.

I still prepare many dishes from this book, as I have they are always enjoyed, not to mention that I have the recipes memorized!

I love to cook, eat and entertain, and I cherish this book, which launched my 'solo' cooking life.

5 stars for substance and sentiment

I have read the reviews to this book, this is my go-to-cookbook if I need help with my basic cooking. I grew up reading one of the older versions of this book. I like the more recent editions because they inform you in how long you should cook poultry, or beef, since my mom told me that eating undercooked meat is bad for you. This book is very good to have if you are living on your own alone or are married.

Almost everything I know about cooking, I learned from this book years ago. I still use it often. It is the best cookbook. I own, and I own over 240 cookbooks.

this is my mom's cookbook. when i was little, i would spend hours playing with it while she cooked, and pretending her little spice jars were people having adventures. but mostly, reading this and admiring the pictures. i left it behind in my moving-out-of-brooklyn haste years ago, and i came across it at a used bookshop sunday. so even though it is not "her" copy, and it doesn't have all of the great handwritten notes, i can still sit here on the floor with it and play with my spices and pretend i am having superfun spicy adventures. plus. i think this is her meatloaf recipe, and it had better be, because i haven't found a good recipe for meatloaf that reminds me of home...

This has been a great reference for me, especially while I was learning to cook. A lot of reviews for this book say it is too basic, but some of us really need to start with the basics, and this has been a valuable tool in my kitchen. There are a lot of meals from this cookbook that have become staples in our family meals, like the chicken salad, and the turkey soft tacos. I use this at least once a week.

This is a very good basic cookbook - perfect for beginners, yet also useful to seasoned cooks who will still find themselves pulling it down from the shelf years later. A standard, a classic. I have moved several times and have had to repeatedly whittle down my cookbook collection, but this one always makes the cut.

Pretty much the cookbook. It's like the wikipedia of cookbooks :D

If I were to ever actually buy a cookbook, it would be this one.

This is my all time favorite, go-to in a pinch, recipes I've loved since I was a kid, cookbook. I love Betty! What more is there to say?

Wonderful looking recipes, I'll have to try one out to see if it lives up to the pictures.