Aunt Bee's Mayberry Cookbook (ISBN 1558530983)

cute but disappointing:
I think the black and white episodes of the Andy Griffith Show are probably the best examples of American TV ever made, so I was thrilled to order this book. There are no photos at all which makes it tedious to flip through. Also, every recipe insists on having a character's name in the title. It's cute for the first few pages but gets tiresome very quickly. I can't imagine Ernest T. Bass cooking anything and if he did I don't believe I would want to try it. However, there are many, many pieces of dialogue reproduced exactly as they were said on the show and it is delightful to read them! How funny simple American dialect can be... This book is a fun momento of the classic Americana sitcom, but don't expect to cook much from it.

A waste of my money:
I bought this book from amazon last year and was very let down. First of all, the quality is poor- the pages are very thin- it looks like cheap copy paper printed at a corner shop (the print quality is not great), especially with the cheap plastic ring binders. This book is not an official recipe book filled with actual recipes used on the show. It's not even all Southern cooking since some of the recipes are not even from the south. Many sounded very unappetizing. Too many recipes called for canned soups and other ready made items as opposed to being made from scratch. I didn't see many recipes that looked like it would produce what Aunt Bee served on TV. I agree with the reviewer who said that using character names for the recipes got very old. I gave my book to Goodwill.

Aunt Bee's Mayberry Cookbook:
Being from a small town and now living away from it this book is like having my little aunties giving me their secert recipes... God rest their soul! I wish I had been old enough to ask them for them personally, but I found a lot of them in these two books. This is one of the two Mayberry cookbooks I own.

Great home cooking:
I got this cookbook years ago from my mom, and loved it. Lots of favorite recipes there. Now I give it as a gift and everyone just loves it. And it's fun with all the pictures and quotes.

Yummmy Yum Yum:
This is an awesome book. I made the "honest Cherry Pie" and the family ate it up. Serve with whip-cream or Blue Bell Homemade vanilla. (Blue Bell is a Southern/Texas brand of ice cream.)I also gave each of my step daughters a copy along with my daughter. The book show you "Down-Home cooking" at it's best.. Bravo Aunt Bea!!