This set was offered by our local grocery store. My mother purchased each volume as it was offered, one each week, until she had all12 volumes. I would sit and read them cover to cover when I was a girl.

This was my go-to cookbook for 30 years. It still serves me well, but now it shares the shelf with The Joy of Cooking. I could live on the Italian Sausage & Rice Casserole (Vol. 10, p. 1636 in my edition); and Mae's Date Cookies (Vol. 3, p. 476) are my all-time favorite. My only complaint is that someone (who apparently has never used a book before) put the page numbers on the inside corners next to the binding. Why, why why? ( )