Meta Given's Modern Encyclopedia of Cooking

None visible on front or back cover. The spine indicates the book is a comprehensive reference work covering Appetizers, Beverages, Cake, Candy, Cereals, Cheese, Cookies, Crockettes, Desserts, Herbs, Fish, and serves as a Handbook of Menus, Market Buying Guide, and Techniques. The copyright page notes "Total copies in use Over One Million Books." The Table of Contents reveals Volume One covers: Charts and Tables, List of Illustrations and Color Plates, Acknowledgments, Foreword, Dedication, The Meal Planner's Creed, The Diet Pattern, Food for Children, Why Use Menus?, How to Use These Menus, Menus, The Food Shopper's Creed, Homemaker's Handbook (Stretching the Food Dollar, Purchasing Fruits and Vegetables, Buying Staples, Freezing Foods, Care of Food in the Home, Measurements and Equivalents, Tin and Glass Jar Sizes, How-to-Do These Little Pantry Kitchen Jobs), The Cook's Creed, and recipes beginning with Appetizers through Fish.