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[Big Mike]

15 more since last posting: Heart of the Artichoke, Zuni Cafe cookbook, The Whole Beast, etc etc etc

[maggiethecat]

With four new books of my own, that's a nice round 173,880 cookbooks.

[Genkinaonna]

I just took advantage of the sale at Borders and picked up Paletas, The Whimsical Bakehouse, The Perfect Scoop, and World Vegetarian.

Just got a bunch of cookbooks at the library too, so I haven't even had a chance to crack any of my new ones open. But soon, oh yes, soon, I will...

[Darienne]

Three second hand additional cookbooks for me: one on frozen desserts, one on Asian food, and one on truffles...more cheap than noteworthy. Greed on my part.

[blue_dolphin]

86 for me.
At least that's what I have entered in Eat Your Books.
Someday I'll count up the others and post back.

[FrogPrincesse]

I added a few books to my library since March.

• Boozehound: On the Trail of the Rare, the Obscure, and the Overrated in Spirits by Jason Wilson. This is my current read, which is very informative and a lot of fun, with cocktail recipes interspersed throughout the book. I love it so far and it is a good reference book.
  
• The Cooking of Italy by Waverley Root (Foods of the World / Time-Life Books)
  
• Pacific & Southeast Asian Cooking by Rafael Steinberg (Foods of the World / Time-Life Books). These two Time-Life books have beautiful vintage pictures and I can't wait to cook from them.
  
• Modernist Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking by Nathan Myhrvold and Chris Young and Maxime Bilet. I guess this counts as 6 books...
  
• The Reach of a Chef: Professional Cooks in the Age of Celebrity by Michael Ruhlman. I've read the other volumes (making, soul) so I had to get that one too.
  
• An Embarrassment of Mangoes: A Caribbean Interlude by Ann Vanderhoof. I have the Spice Necklace by the same author, and expect that this one will be a good read too. The stories remind me of a trip I made to St Lucia last year, and it's a cuisine that I am interested in exploring.

So that's +11

[Wholemeal Crank]

Up to 143 now, last count I gave was 124--probably 25 new books in the last 2 years, and culling half a dozen. So add 19 to the total.

Bread 20
Other baking/dessert 15
Chocolate 6
Chinese 8
Other Asian 12
Indian 7
Latin America & Mexico 6
Vegetarian, vegetables, grains, beans 16
Mediterranean including Africa 15
Italian 9
French 3
general 8
Reference 18

[FrogPrincesse]

+2 but about to buy a few more...

• Vintage Spirits and Forgotten Cocktails by Ted Haigh
• Beta cocktails

[mkayahara]

In a recent rearrangement (and expansion) of the bookshelves devoted to my cookbooks and cocktail books, I took the opportunity to count them. The total came in at around 170. (Of course, that's not counting "food literature" or magazines.) When my bookstore finally gets off its butt and brings in a copy of the Eleven Madison Park cookbook that's not damaged, it'll be 171.

[maggiethecat]

That's 174,096.

[pastrygirl]

I'm pretty sure I haven't responded yet.

59 pastry/baking/chocolate
18 savory/general

Do 51 issues of Art Culinaire count?

[mkayahara]

I'm pretty sure I haven't responded yet.

59 pastry/baking/chocolate
18 savory/general

Funny how our collections break down, isn't it? When I went through mine, I realized I have only 7 books devoted to pastry/baking/confectionery: two books on frozen desserts, two books on confectionery, two Anna Olson books, and I <3 Macarons.

Do 51 issues of Art Culinaire count?

They must count for at least one book collectively! Whenever I show my friends an issue of Art Culinaire and refer to it as a "magazine," there's this look they give me...

[pastrygirl]

Do 51 issues of Art Culinaire count?

They must count for at least one book collectively! Whenever I show my friends an issue of Art Culinaire and refer to it as a "magazine," there's this look they give me...

When you consider that it's 12 years of issues and $750 , it better count as at least one!

[OliverB]

I'm somewhere between 250 and 300 now and I have to slow down, as I'm running out of space, I'll have to get rid of some before I can add much more, I'll get into trouble if I add an other bookshelf ;-p

[maggiethecat]

174,449.

[Darienne]

Additions to my cookbooks. Just love the American Amazon.com.

Jeni's Splendid Ice Creams at Home
Mark Bittmans' The Food Matters Cook Book.
Shehad Husain & others. India's 500 Best Recipes.
Lisa Fain's The Homesick Texan.
Maria Teresa Bermudez. Mexican Family Favorites Cook Book.

Plus three Tex-Mex second hand books and one bread book.

[GlorifiedRice]

220

Including

ALL the Culinaria Series
The Red Purefoy Hotel Cookbook
The Chicago Bulls Cookbook w/ Michael Jordans Mac & Cheese recipe
Boy Georges Macrobiotic cookbook
Ben Franklins cookbook (Parmesan in his cheesecake)
The UNCHEESE cookbok
The Entire Time-Life Good Cook series
The fantabulous Marlboro Cigarettes cookbook series
Top Secret Recipes series
The Clinton White House Cookbook and Tour
BONES
FAT
MEAT
and
Manifold Destiny cooking on your car engine

[Darienne]

A personal retrospect.

Just went backwards through the posts I have made to this topic. Can't believe it. I came to this list with 126 cookbooks to my name. A very mixed lot. And that was from a background of hating to cook.

Since Dec 08, via one method or other, I have acquired an additional 91 cookbooks. That's 3 years of incredible cooking and learning from this list. Possibly one of the most amazing and unexpected turns my life has taken.

I now am proud/ashamed/embarrassed to say I own 217 cookbooks.

[ChrisTaylor]

Add a few more to the list:

Local ones

Gingerboy - Teage Ezard
MoVida Cocina - Frank Camorra

Some others

Joy of Mixology - Gary Regan
Nobu's Vegetarian Cookbook - Nobu Matsuhisa
Serious Barbecue - Adam Perry Lang

And a couple I bought in South Africa

32 Inspirational Chefs -- South Africa, Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Mauritius & The Seychelles - various
Reuben Cooks Local -- Reuben Riffel

[maggiethecat]

I'll find my Dad's calculator tomorrow. Merci all.

[CoraYvette]

Do ebooks count?

[Mette]

I'm at a very sad 27 - but 20 of these are chocolate related so they count for two

[LT Wong]

I feel so much better after going through this topic. Was feeling guilty after having ordered 30 more to add to my (measly in comparison) 200+ book collection. Looks like I can buy some more now.....

[Alex]

One more: The Splendid Table's How to Eat Weekends

[FrogPrincesse]

Since November I only got two new books:

• Cooking By Hand by Paul Bertolli (I made the tesa and the ragù alla bolognese so far, both terrific)
• The PDT Cocktail Book by Jim Meehan and Chris Gall, which is getting plenty of use as seen on the PDT thread!

[janeer]

Since November I only got two new books:

• Cooking By Hand by Paul Bertolli (I made the tesa and the ragù alla bolognese so far, both terrific)
• The PDT Cocktail Book by Jim Meehan and Chris Gall, which is getting plenty of use as seen on the PDT thread!

I have gotten maybe 6 since Christmas--and my new PDT just arrived today, inspired by that thread.

[FrogPrincesse]

Went to the used bookstore and found these two that had been on my wish list for a while....

[FrogPrincesse]

One nice thing about buying books in a used bookstore (other than supporting local stores) is that sometimes you have a nice surprise. The Hawaiian cookbook had been signed by a couple of the chefs. Now I just need to gather the other 10 signatures to complete the collection.

I also just got White Heat by Marco Pierre White, thinking it was his autobiography. It was the wrong book but now I am fascinated with the recipes...

[GlorifiedRice]

I just bought "Cookin With Coolio" used off of Amazon...

It's Whickety Whack...

Measurements in "dime bags"

[andiesenji]

I just got Charleston Receipts Repeats. Charleston Receipts has been a favorite cookbook of mine for fifty years. This one was first published in 1986 and is now in its 11th printing.
I got this one on the recommendation of a friend who assured me that it was not a rehash of the "receipts" in the original book but new ones and some modernized ones from the earlier book with ingredients now available in "modern" measurements.

A couple of weeks ago I got and am now reading Cheese and Culture - A History of Cheese and Its Place in Western Civilization, by Paul S. Kindstedt.
I've read almost halfway through it and while some of it is heavy going, it is fascinating. Cheese was not merely food. It had religious significance in many cultures and had a distinct effect on the spread of civilization, allowing people who were lactose intolerant (yes, even back then) to derive nutrition from milk in its secondary form, cheese.
This is not a book for someone who wants a quick read but if you are interested in how and why cheese (generic) and the various regional cheeses were developed and contributed to trade and the enrichment of societies, this is an excellent book.
"Cheese and Culture tells the story of how cheese history intersects with some of the pivotal periods in human history and in many cases shaped the lives of cheesemakers and the diverse cheeses they developed."

Edited by andiesenji, 14 May 2012 - 09:34 PM.