Karina, some of my favorite cookbooks are ones from the 50s and 60s -- I remember my mother entertaining at little bbridge/b parties with food just like the recipes in those cookbooks. Susan, my cookbooks do keep encroaching on the ... I do have the new version of bRoden's/b book, too -- but of course have not been able to part with the earlier edition, because the book was a gift. The updated edition is terrific and one of the basic references I will always keep in my library. ...