TimeLife "The Good Cook/Techniques & Recipes" Complete Set of 28 shops Full of Techniques, Recipes, Creative Ideas

The Good Cook is a 28-Volume series overseen by the late, great food writer Richard Olney and published by Time-Life Books in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

Each volume is devoted to a single topic such shops as Pork, Classic Desserts or Snacks & Sandwiches. Attention is given to techniques such as Enhancing the Delicacy of Bean Curd to international recipes (making tofu, folding tamales) to tips for entertaining.

As one reviewer put it "...an immensely important series that clearly set out in pictures and words how to tackle even the most complex of recipes. Precise, well-written text with well-tested recipes. Still important fifty years after publication"

Each book explains and demonstrates how to prepare various types of food, and offers in each book an international anthology of great recipes. Books are 9.25" x 10.75" and occupy 18" of shelf space.

Covers may have a dent or a ding here and there.