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[runwestierun]

13 more for me: 11 about pie, 2 about other stuff.

[SylviaLovegren]

I finally got around to counting mine, which are mostly older cookbooks that I read like novels. The total is -- give or take a few -- about 1450. The thing that I find odd, or maybe sad, is I cook from about 5 or 6 of them. My latest acquisitions have been older (last 60 years or so) Canadian cookbooks as I explore our new home.

[Darienne]

I've really cut down on buying cookbooks. No, really, I have.

Still I bought one recently, second-hand, Bakers Best Chocolate Cookbook, 1995.

Why you ask? Well, for reasons which don't make sense, I have amassed a large collection of 'those' kinds of chocolate books from Nestle, Hershey, etc. For fun I guess.

[FrogPrincesse]

+ 3

Sierra Mar cookbook by Craig Von Foester- lovely birthday gift from my brother and sister in law
Hunt, Gather, Cook by Hank Shaw
A Girl and her Pig by April Bloomfield

Edited by FrogPrincesse, 18 June 2012 - 06:10 PM.

[Mjx]

I now have Modernist Cuisine (actually, was given this ten days ago, but was too stunned until now to think of mentioning it here). I'm amazed by how big the volumes are, never expected them to be this imposing. Brilliant.

[flourgirl]

I own 49 baking books and 30 cooking books. I have several baking books on my wish list.

I usually to go to the library and try the recipes before I actually buy the book.

[blue_dolphin]

15 more for me since I last posted in this thread. Most recent is Katie Loeb's Shake, Stir, Pour - Fresh Homegrown Cocktails.

Up to 101 on Eat Your Books.

[janeer]

15 more for me since I last posted in this thread. Most recent is Katie Loeb's Shake, Stir, Pour - Fresh Homegrown Cocktails.

Up to 101 on Eat Your Books.

good choice here is my mini review. Runwestierun: as I am obsessed with pie, can you tell what the 11 pie books you bought were?

[LynnFoodies]

Less than five. I browsed more than buying cookbook.. I think I should get more.

[Jonathan J]

385 for me, although I have started borrowing more from the library.

[mskerr]

38, and I'm trying to pare down my collection more.

I'm a bit obsessive about getting rid of anything I don't use and trying to stay more or less mobile (I love moving), so I am often donating books to the library or passing them on to friends. I get rid of cookbooks which are stunning or gorgeous, but impractical for me, and I often get rid of cookbooks in favor of replacing them with something more advanced. I have a good stack of food magazines, but I also go through them and rip out the pages I want, and toss the rest. I do have a box of xeroxed recipes from library cookbooks. I, too, am that crazy lady always picking up 15 cookbooks at the library.

[FrogPrincesse]

+ 2 for me

The Art of Cooking with Vegetables by Alain Passard
The Great Book of Chocolate by David Lebovitz

[Darienne]

Thank you FrogPrincess for posting. Reminds me to post.

I've bought one cookbook since coming to Utah this year and paid an Amazon price: Muy Bueno (the jury is still out about how useful it will be) and from second hand stores: 7 books. (Also 5 Bon Appetit cookbooks for a friend who is collecting them.) It's hard to resist a good cookbook at $.50 or less.

[weinoo]

I might've responded to this before, but I have a fair amount of books. So many, in fact, that a bunch are in storage - which I think is silly.

Anyway, yesterday, a close family member who is in the "food biz" gifted me with a few of the books she happened to receive this year:



I'm very excited about at least 3 of them:

Thai Street Food (which is huge)
Vietnamese Home Cooking
My Pizza

[Mjx]

Thanks to some amazon gift certificates from my sister, I recently added Francisco Migoya's Elements of Dessert and Judith Benn Hurley's The Good Herb to my collection (I'm not sure whether 'added' is correct for the latter, since I owned a copy that mysteriously vanished at my sister's place, where it may still be lurking).

[FrogPrincesse]

+ 1

Christine Ferber's Mes Confitures (French edition)

[LT Wong]

I added the following -

SPQR
Gu Chocolate Cookbook
Andy Bates' Modern twists on classic dishes
Italian Cuisine Signature Dishes
The Hakka Cookbook

I gave away my copy of My Pizza (which is really good) to my friend who is crazy about pizza. So, I have to add it back at some point in time.

Edited by LT Wong, 04 January 2013 - 06:11 AM.

[Raamo]

I have a small bookshelf from Ikea, it's full height but only half width. My wife won't let me buy any more cookbooks then what fit on the shelves. I recently got rid of 15+ books, 1/2 were ATK books replaced by the 10 year compalation.

Even then I've still got a very full self, easily 40 books. Still not sure wher MC is going to go once I get that. :)

[Andrehaya]

I own 87 cookbooks... A lot more than I expected...=P

[pufin3]

About a hundred cook books and another fifty 'foodie' books like 'Belly Of Paris' and the Bemelman books, Waverly etc.
I did a major 'purge' a few years ago and regret doing so every day.

Edited by pufin3, 22 January 2013 - 08:08 AM.

[bikerkayaker]

I don't know exactly, but about 250 is an educated guesstimate.
On average, I probably buy one book/month.

/F

[jjahorn]

Someone mentioned the America's Test Kitchen Compilation.
I don't know ATK - and just looked it up. The individual yearbooks seem to have recipes and tips on preparation as well as tools and things. Using 'Look Inside' on Amazon, the compilation looks like it is just recipes - is that right? I like how the yearbooks show you photos with steps of doing certain activities.

[flourgirl]

Someone mentioned the America's Test Kitchen Compilation.
I don't know ATK - and just looked it up. The individual yearbooks seem to have recipes and tips on preparation as well as tools and things. Using 'Look Inside' on Amazon, the compilation looks like it is just recipes - is that right? I like how the yearbooks show you photos with steps of doing certain activities.

There are very few photos in most of ATK's books. However, the recipes are excellent. They have their 'menu' books and the books in looseleaf and ring binders which have the most pictures in any of their books. IMO, their 'best' series is truly their best. I have bought copies for myself and my daughters.

[vogelap]

I am planning to move some books around... That might give me a good opportunity to count my cookbooks because, well, I'd like to know! I know it's over 100 (like I posted before), but just HOW MUCH over, I don't know.

 

Well, I recently counted. My food-related book collection numbers 360.

My name is Drew, and I'm a cookbook-aholic.

Latest check is over 500 cookbooks... Yikes. I have seriously slowed down in purchasing/accepting cookbooks (I really have!).

 

Most recent acquisitions: Tyler Florence's FRESH and Underly's The Art of Beef Cutting.

[fvandrog]

 

I am planning to move some books around... That might give me a good opportunity to count my cookbooks because, well, I'd like to know! I know it's over 100 (like I posted before), but just HOW MUCH over, I don't know.

 

Well, I recently counted. My food-related book collection numbers 360.

My name is Drew, and I'm a cookbook-aholic.

Latest check is over 500 cookbooks... Yikes. I have seriously slowed down in purchasing/accepting cookbooks (I really have!).

 

Most recent acquisitions: Tyler Florence's FRESH and Underly's The Art of Beef Cutting.

 

This is a great thread -- I suddenly feel so much better, only owning about a hundred cooking books. I have recently begun buying some of them electronically since it takes at least less space -- but in general I prefer the paper versions, especially when they have nice photos and how-to's.

[Darienne]

Recently I gave to our local library's book sale 15 cookbooks which I didn't need.  Don't be alarmed...none of you would have wanted them either. 

 

Still I have slowed W-A-A-Y down in buying cookbooks.  There's so much online now that I can't even make the recipes which I download and print.

[jjahorn]

Darienne has a good point about too much information out there.

 

Does anyone have a good organization tips or a program for tracking web-site recipes?

I don't want to print everything that looks good...

I bookmark interesting ones. When I try them I move good ones to a folder liked, and delete the others, the the lists can get quite long.

And of course I lost them all once because I didn't back-up my computer and had a major crash.

[Ttogull]

Does anyone have a good organization tips or a program for tracking web-site recipes?
I don't want to print everything that looks good...
I bookmark interesting ones. When I try them I move good ones to a folder liked, and delete the others, the the lists can get quite long.
And of course I lost them all once because I didn't back-up my computer and had a major crash.

I use Evernote for the ones I want to keep track of but don't really want to print. It comes with a browser add-on, and you just click the little button and it saves an actual copy of the page somewhere in the clouds. It's free but capped per month - I haven't yet hit the caps. You can pay to loosen the caps. It also has the benefit that it is the same on all your devices, so if you clipped on your computer and later decide at the grocery store that you want to make the recipe, you can access it with your smartphone.

[Ttogull]

Does anyone have a good organization tips or a program for tracking web-site recipes?
I don't want to print everything that looks good...
I bookmark interesting ones. When I try them I move good ones to a folder liked, and delete the others, the the lists can get quite long.
And of course I lost them all once because I didn't back-up my computer and had a major crash.

I use Evernote for the ones I want to keep track of but don't really want to print. It comes with a browser add-on, and you just click the little button and it saves an actual copy of the page somewhere in the clouds. It's free but capped per month - I haven't yet hit the caps. You can pay to loosen the caps. It also has the benefit that it is the same on all your devices, so if you clipped on your computer and later decide at the grocery store that you want to make the recipe, you can access it with your smartphone.

[Easyezzy Foods]

Braam Kruger ( http://blogs.timesli...dly-remembered/) had the most cookbooks I ever saw.  Laid along the floor about 40 ft.  I have less than two and a half thousand.  and I'm finding a big gap.

We have all these books from restaurant chefs.  Somehow they get toned down for us.  The assumption is we don't have professional cooking tools.  Is it the Editor or the Chef, who is assuming?

 

Many Italian homes have meat slicers.  Some hunters have vacuum pack machines.  In places where the electricity is unreliable people have Anvil gas stoves.  At home! 

But, friends,  there persists this image of us; we live in little poky apartmants with a weak hotplate and a low power Microwave.  Who makes this assumption that I don't have a Wok?  That I don't have a 90litre (95Quart US) pot?  That I am not interested in cooking for 80 of my daughter's friends at her 21st party?

who is keeping secrets?