Some of you may think this is a joke, but it's not.

Why? Because the original author Irma Rombauer was probably more bad-ass than you could ever dream to be. In the original JoC, she has detailed instructions on how to field dress all sorts of game including Bear. Subsequent revisions no longer contain such detailed instructions, but they do include a diagram for venison. Anyhow, the fact that this woman wrote a page on how to prepare Bear tells you two things:

1) Her husband may've been bad-ass enough to shoot one so she could write about how to dress and cook said beast (page 530).
2) She had a kick-ass kitchen large enough to cook such a meal

If she could do that, then you should be able to flip to page 360 and figure out what to do with that Arborio rice that you accidentally bought last week (the answer is: risotto.)

The Joy of Cooking is so kick-ass that I'm including it in a few of my Gentlemint lists.
1) Things every guy should have
2) Food
3) Zombie Apocalypse (cause, you might have to kill, cook and eat wild game)
4) Camping (same reason as 3)
5) Minimalist - if you are to only have ONE cook book, this should be the one.