Recently a LinkedIn member asked what cookbook would you recommend to a friend if you had the opportunity? I thought about it for a second and could only come up with one, namely Betty Crocker’s Picture Cook Book. Okay, can you tell I’m a baby boomer.

Look, it’s one of the few books that has tried and true recipes and foods I’m  relatively familiar with. I have come to the conclusion that many of the cookbooks that are out today are just garbage. There I said it! Yep, garbage.

Celebs are in business to make money, not provide deliciously divine recipes so they really don’t count. Think about it, it takes days, sometime weeks to perfect a recipe and then all of a sudden one of those Food TV Network celebs has not only come out with a cookbook but a magazine filled with more recipes. Really? I guess if I had a slew of CIA grads busy trying this or that I could do it too.

No jealousy here, just wondering what it’s all for? You know, the pretty pictures of food that makes your want to drool, digital photography and a good food stylist can do wonders.

So if you would recommend a book to your BFF what would it be?