These satisfying, from-scratch meals, appetizers, and desserts come back to life when you open the pages of The Good Home Cookbook. Take your taste buds on a trip down memory lane with more than 1,000 timeless recipes reminiscent of mom’s savory soups, grandma’s fresh-baked pies, and the roadside restaurant’s “special of the day.”

Researched and amassed by a team of talented editors and headed up by chef Richard J. Perry, this compendium of heirloom recipes were selected as the true staples of traditional American cuisine.

So how were these preeminent classic recipes pinpointed and selected for The Good Home Cookbook? First, a massive collection of vintage cookbooks, including treasured family recipe books with handwritten notes, served as the foundation for the original lineup.

Then, the Collectors Press team painstakingly “averaged” this wealth of recipes to find the most common and widely accepted ingredients for each chosen recipe.

New cookbooks were later utilized to discern the precise ways that recipes have been modified by the changing times. Or, as Perry aptly puts it, “What exactly have we done to monkey with meatloaf recipes over the years? With macaroni and cheese? Each time, we set out to discover the ultimate classic dish-before everything became calorie-reduced and quick ‘n’ easy.”