The classic bestseller that taught millions to cook -- now fully illustrated and updatedAll About Soups & Stews combines classic dishes with the very best in contemporary cooking. There are no chef's frills foibles hard-to-find ingredients or tricky preparations here. This is simply good home cooking at its comforting best. All About Soups & Stews is organized into ten chapters that feature over 130 irresistible stocks broths chowders fish and seafood soups and robust stews fruit soups and more. You'll also find recipes for more than a dozen accompaniments and quick breads as well as foolproof techniques for straining and storing stock. Each recipe illustrates Joy of Cooking's unique action method in which the ingredients are specially highlighted in the method text to show the reader exactly when and how to add each one.Above all Joy of Cooking is a practical guide to home cooking imbued with the expert knowledge and enthusiasm of great cooks - the indispensable cooking companion.