my favorite cookbook is " The Spice Cookbook" which is out of print now. My daughter's love it as well and to save my copy, I searched and found 3 more copies for the oldest daughter's. The two younger are still using Joy of Cooking for the most part. I also had "the Good House Keeping Cookbook" which I gifted to my oldest. She put on FB that it is her go to book for techniques and recipes she is unfamiliar with. I have 6 living children and they all cook, some more than others. My son is a butcher so meat and fish is his domain.