"Is Betty Crocker any better than the Joy of Cooking or are either one of them any better than Escoffier?".......
The best cookbook is the one you write yourself. It's a collection of recipes you've tried and adjusted to your liking.
Unless there is a food allergy or total dislike for an ingredient, I try to follow recipes as written.
After trying, I then alter them my taste.
Nothing in cooking is written in stone.
Buying quality stocks is the best get-rich-slow scheme. It’s not sexy as a get-rich-quick scheme,
but the probabilities of success are greater.
Remember........ It's better to wish you had bought a
stock, than to wish you hadn't.