Thank you CAG for all the great suggestions, I love a good read---when I get the time, which is not often unfortunatley! But that is why I love good cookbooks they are many times perfect and just what we need to get a good quick read in!

Yes KYH..."starving artists": probably you hit the nail on the head with that one! My favorite dream is to live in Key West and just hang out at Sunset Pier and paint for a living selling all my works to the tourists.............aaahhhh. Probably why I wound up raising my grand - it keeps me grounded in reality, and a more favorable lifestyle to my likings! haha But hey as we all know it never hurts to dream a little!!!

Still beats paying 40 bucks, wouldn't you say.

Let us know how you like it.

Nice, Nan... ENJOY! I'm itchin' to get a copy too! Gotta get my order in before the USED ones all go bye-bye!

KYH- I can't tell ya how many "USED" books I've gotten from both Amazon and Barnes & Noble. Probably well over 50. And I tell ya- I've never received one that didn't look pretty pristine. The most unfavorable condition I have EVER received one in was a black marker "Water-Mark" on the Edge of the pages, opposite the spine. My hunch is that books that sit for a certain period on store shelves without selling eventually go to some "USED" warehouse where they're then offered for next to nothing. Although one would think thay'd have to take up shelf space for YEARS to be termed unsellable, but I've gotten some that were only a year or so old. I just got Martha Stewart's 12-18 month old, jumbo, lavish "Wedding Cakes" volume- a book I'd wanted since the day it came out, but I remained disciplined and forced myself to wait. Got the $60.00 book for only $19.80, but now I see they're offering USED copies for only $30.00, so I got LUCKY! (For anyone interested, this book is now available as one of the ONE DOLLAR BOOKS you can get as one of your 4 introductory volumes for starting-up a new membership at "The Good Cook"! (If I'd only waited a couple weeks longer!)
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I have been enjoying The Ultimate Chinese & Asian Cookbook a friend got for me as a thank you for fixing his computer. Everything I have tried from it has been yummy. Lots of great pics and clear easy to follow instructions.