{"id":5042,"date":"2016-05-21T06:42:14","date_gmt":"2016-05-21T12:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooking.pfeist.net\/?p=5042"},"modified":"2025-09-22T08:38:45","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T14:38:45","slug":"250-cookbooks-mccalls-cook-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cooking.pfeist.net\/?p=5042","title":{"rendered":"250 Cookbooks: McCall\u2019s Cook Book"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cookbook #160:\u00a0<\/strong>McCall\u2019s Cook Book,<\/em> by the Food Editors of McCall\u2019s, McCall Corporation and Random House Inc., 13th printing, NY, 1963.
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My McCall’s Cook Book<\/em> falls apart in my hands as I open it. The binding is held together with green tape. The pages are almost water-logged and have quite a few stains. I had this book in California before we moved to Colorado in 1973, so I probably bought it (or was it a gift?) when I was attending UCI or at my first job. After all these years, it still resides in the cabinet next to my stove. And I still use it!<\/p>\n

McCall’s Cook Book<\/em> was my first very own thick, comprehensive cookbook. It precedes the other aged cooking tome I keep in the kitchen: Joy of Cooking<\/a><\/em>. McCall’s<\/em> is the kind of cooking I grew up with, and to this day, I am very comfortable with this book. The Joy of Cooking<\/em> has a lot of character and bossiness, but McCall’s<\/em> makes me feel at home. Both books belong in my kitchen!<\/p>\n

McCall’s used to be a women’s magazine. On Wikipedia, I learn that that McCall’s was one of the Seven Sisters<\/a>, “a group of magazines which have traditionally been aimed at married women who are homemakers with husbands and children, rather than single and working women.” I remember all of these magazines so well (and I don’t let myself buy them anymore, too many recipes in my files!):<\/p>\n