The Fireside Cook Book Author:James Beard A complete guide to fine cooking for beginner and expert containing 1217 recipes and over 400 color pictures. — The fact that today's cook, especially in our country, commands such a vast variety of ingredients makes her potential achievement in the kitchen so much the more inspiring, and her failures, when made through carelessness or indifferen... more »ce, so much the less excusable. It is in the devout hope that indifference, the only cardinal sin of cookery, may be forever banished from his readers' kitchens that the author has compiled this book.« less