Agreed. It’s on my shelves and someone asked me the same question I asked you!! 
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It’s about doctoring cake mixes?
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Yes! Just lots of creative ways to change them up.
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Oh yay for you it came so quickly! Know you haven’t had a chance to thoroughly peruse it yet, but at first glance, or paragraph, don’t you think it’s just beautiful @shrinkwrap? So happy I saw it on morning news programming, which I usually don’t watch.
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I just read an article on this title
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Nice - glad to see another book representing the cuisine, and know that the foodways are being preserved! Thanks @Rooster.
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It is beautiful, and this morning I am really enjoying reading the introduction.
I impulsively bought some turkey legs and wings a few days ago, and thought I might find ideas here. I didn’t, so there might be a new thread on the way!
What I did find was lots of pleasant surprises, including one for a favorite pound cake, started in a cold oven.
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As promised, more cookbook pics. We’re in the same room, but these shelves are opposite the earlier ones. There’s more to come…
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You make me glad I gave most to son.
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I don’t mind being a learning lesson for others, either. Beware people, this could happen to you! 
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I spy Thrill of the Grill and Big Flavors of the Hot Sun on your shelf. Two of my favorite cookbooks of all time! Coincidentally, not five minutes ago I pulled both off my shelf so that I could start browsing for inspiration.
For many years, the author ran East Coast Grill restaurant in Cambridge, MA. Those books are truly generous in that you could experience the dishes at home by following the recipes. Bold, unfussy food.
Though the restaurant is now but a memory, I’m glad to have the books to draw upon still.
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Thank you for your experience with the books, and the resto of times gone by…I’ve come to trust the names to the extent, I even have their Salsa book, and have gifted it. I pull them out for H when he’s cooking outdoors, and he springboards from there, and other sources. As one does. I’ll be giving them a more thorough perusal now, for sure @tomatotomato! We’re finally getting good, sunny, warmer weather here. Yay!
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@Lambchop I used to sell those Time-Life Good Cook Cookbooks on the phone! Just a moment in time, in retrospect, but a pleasant one. We were a bunch of “kids” in a call center. I culled the ones I had and often regret it.
Is the one called Jambalaya allabout Jambalaya? Wow!
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Big Flavors of the Hot Sun is fantastic.
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Seriously, you have a home library! Who will inherit that amazing collection one day?
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My 2 daughters who DON’T want them of course! I guess @Rooster, the short answer is anyone who may want them, if not people, then charitable organizations, our library, GW Industries, Culinary Schools?and the sort. The family joke is the fam will use them to build my funeral pyre, as mentioned upthread (I think) 
The reality is that most books don’t have much value these days. Although I have some that are hard to find, a few autographed ones, etc. it would be a time/ cost/benefit question whether it would be worth special handling considerations like EBay. Probably not. When I get older, I will happily re-home them too.
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Yes, I have quite a few as they were gifts for us …
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@shrinkrap, the Jambalaya book is a Jr League Cookbook from New Orleans, and has an assortment of recipes. Love, as you can probably tell, the food from that area!
Interesting about the call center job, and happy to know it was a fun job for you! Oddly enough, I answered a call from Time-Life books in my early 20’s and said yes to an offer of the book, Great Dinners From Life. I blame that one book for all the collecting mayhem that followed. It was the very first time I’d seen real, hardcore food porn, in all its glory! It has a timeless quality about it, and over the years, the recipes have been rock solid.
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