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[jane@eatyourbooks]

I've been putting off posting here as who likes to own up to an addiction? But I feel like I'm among fellow addicts (or at least some of you are) so I'll stand up and announce "Hi, my name is Jane and I'm a cookbook addict. I own 1,098 books but I'm still adding more". The point of this support group wasn't that we had to go cold turkey was it?

My most recent purchases have been Nigel Slater's Tender 2, Grace Young's Stir-Frying to the Sky's Edge and Best Food Writing 2010. So now I'm having to own up every time I get another fix, aren't I?

[Genkinaonna]

Just bought Ready for Dessert. And Cake Pops. No more amazon for me!

Edited by Genkinaonna, 28 January 2011 - 09:25 PM.

[Bricktop]

I'll get an updated number later this month. I just bought some software and a barcode scanner to get a complete inventory.

[dmreed]

what software?

[Special K]

After seeing the review in today's New York Times, I want Anna Ciezadlo's Day of Honey: A Memoir of Food, Love, and War.

[Bricktop]

what software?

Sorry. It's the appropriately named Delicious Library 2. Mac only AFAIK.

[Alex]

Just ordered The Soup Peddler's Slow and Difficult Soups, by David Ansel

[maggiethecat]

We've added some impressive numbers: 178,970.

[Gregg]

My name's Gregg and I'm (also) a cookbook addict. What I don't spend on cookbooks, or the new SVS, goes to the lumber yard for materials for new book shelves. Fortunately my wife still believes this is better for me than crack.

[FrogPrincesse]

+ 12 cookbooks and food-related since January

• Sam Choy's Polynesian's kitchen
• The cooking of provincial France, M.F.K Fisher (Time-Life)
• Charcuterie: The Craft of Salting, Smoking, and Curing, Michael Ruhlman, et al
• Ratio: The Simple Codes Behind the Craft of Everyday Cooking, Michael Ruhlman
• Tartine Bread, Chad Robertson, Eric Wolfinger
• Home Cheese Making: Recipes for 75 Delicious Cheeses, Ricki Carroll
• Ready for Dessert: My Best Recipes, David Lebovitz
• The Nasty Bits: Collected Varietal Cuts, Usable Trim, Scraps, and Bones, Anthony Bourdain
• As Always, Julia: The Letters of Julia Child and Avis DeVoto, Joan Reardon
• Life, on the Line: A Chef's Story of Chasing Greatness, Facing Death, and Redefining the Way We Eat, Grant Achatz, Nick Kokonas
• Blood, Bones & Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef, Gabrielle Hamilton
• French Cheeses, EyeWitness Handbooks

[Genkinaonna]

You can add 6 to mine:

My Sweet Mexico
Pop Bakery
Chewy Crunchy Crispy Gooey
A World of Cake

And just so I have something to eat to combat a sugar coma:

The new America's Test Kitchen Slow Cooker Cookbook
Ideas in Food

[Darienne]

Add one: Time-Life Books. Great Meals in Minutes: Mexican Menus. 1984

Isn't My Sweet Mexico a wonder?

[Corinna]

I must confess, I was drooling over the Ottolenghi books on Amazon yesterday. So tempting, especially considering how much I loved the restaurant when I was in London and that I am starting to think about spring produce. I don't think I'll have the time/energy for a full blown veggie garden this year, so there will certainly be money I save from that...(and with all the great local farmstands there will be no shortage of produce.)

Coming here for strength!

[FrogPrincesse]

Missed one -

The Soul of a Chef: The Journey Toward Perfection, Michael Ruhlman

[Alex]

Miss Vickie's Big Book of Pressure Cooker Recipes, by Vickie Smith (to complement my new Fagor)

[kayb]

The Bread Maker's Apprentice.

[Pierogi]

Plus one for me "The Sunset Cookbook". A good one, at that !

[judiu]

Four more for me, The Frugal Gourmet Cooks with Wine, The After Five Gourmet, The Shooters Bible Game Cookbook and another one whose name I can't remember, since I'm not at home to see it... (Computer died, $&^*@(*{]{|\...!)

[Darienne]

Plus one from from St.V de P: Better Homes and Gardens: Recipes from Prizewinning Cooks. Curious...there are no front pages missing and yet there is no date and no ISBN.

Found it on Amazon.com. 1986.

Edited by Darienne, 22 March 2011 - 03:32 PM.

[judiu]

<A.Brown> Oh, BOTHER!</A.Brown> Missed the Edit window. The other new book is called Somethin's Cookin' in the Mountains A cookbook and guide to Northeast Georgia Copyright 1984. Autographed by the author. All of $.50 at the newish Goodwill store.










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[FrogPrincesse]

+ 3

• Atomic Cocktails: Mixed Drinks for Modern Times (gift from a friend)
• The Sweet Life in Paris, David Lebovitz
• Ideas in Food, Aki Kamozawa, H. Alexander Talbot

[Alex]

+4

Via an assist from Groupon:
My New Orleans, John Besh
Stir-Frying to the Sky's Edge, Grace Young

Courtesy of Bargain Books:
How to Pick a Peach, Russ Parsons
Chef, interrupted, Melissa Clark

The Clark book looks like a real sleeper of an acquisition.

[Corinna]

85 here!

[Snadra]

61 in Eat Your Books, plus another 5 that aren't in the library. Now, to stop reading them like novels and start cooking from them more!

[the old cook]

Add a total of 95 for me, I got rid of a lot of them just recently. Now looking for more!

[Pierogi]

Plus 1 for me---"The Prudhomme Family Cookbook". (Thanks, PopsicleToze !)

[cbread]

Does Modernist Cuisine count as zero cookbooks since it is a book about cooking? Or is it one cookbook, or six? Depending upon that, I've added 18 or 19 or 24 cookbooks since my last confession.

[Wholemeal Crank]

Just came here to ask the same question. But there have been other books purchased and some deaccessioned, so a full recount is in order. Still, one book or six for MC?

[ChrisTaylor]

Just added one more with Keller's Bouchon. Was tossing up between that and French Laundry and Ad Hoc (saving Under Pressure for when I eventually get the sous vide setup going) and figured the bistro book would be more to my interests.

[threestars]

Maybe I'm the only person here who only got 4 cookbooks here. I am honestly starting to collect more. Hope I can find some really good ones.