TIME-LIFE Foods of the World (TIME-LIFE Foods of the World SET of 27 Hardcover Color Cookbooks)

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The hardback books are written by various authors each familiar with the specific book's culinary topic in quite an enjoyable manner, walking the reader through a visit to the country addressed as if on vacation. Quite an interesting read, combining a bit of armchair travel with charming photos and a sampling of recipes as well as historical information about each culture's foods. Baby boomers in particular will enjoy and reminisce over the 1970s wardrobes worn by photographed travelers. This is a great resource for foodies who enjoy a touch of history and are not necessarily looking for volumes and volumes of recipes.

Fabulous resource for any Foodie. Each book covers a cooking region or country with interesting history, colorful pictures and recipes. Fascinating reading even if you don't cook.

This Time Life series consists of 27 topics (countries / regional cooking style) and each topic consists of 2 books - a hard cover book and a companion spiral bound recipe booklet.There are some recipes in the hard cover books, but the spiral-bound companion recipe booklet is just 100% recipes.My point is that if you are recipe hungry like me, then seek out the spiral-bound books of this series.This is a wonderful series, informative with many photographs but the hard cover books are scant on recipes.These hardcover books do have a target audience, like food historians, etc. But just not bursting at the seams with recipes. The companion recipe booklets will have the recipes for the foods / dishes shown in the hardcover books.I prefer the recipe booklet, but would buy the volume set (2 books).I really want to be fair and prefer not to give a rating because these are excellent books - it's just the topics (volumes) are really a set of two books (hardcover + separate recipe booklet).