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[sundevilpeg]

I have around 400, give or take a few, plus wooden wine crates full of old issues of 'Gourmet' from decades gone by.   One of my favorite recent re-acquisitions is the hard-bound 50th anniversary edition of the "I Hate to Cook Book," which my mother received for Xmas in the early sixties, and of which I had a paperback copy that served me well in college and beyond.  If I had a nickel for every time I've eaten "Pedro's Special" in my lifetime - well, let's just say I'd have an awfully big bag of nickels.  Funny, sharply-observed, and a time capsule to remind people that women DID in fact work back in the 60's - Peg Bracken was a San Francisco ad exec.  Highly recommended on multiple levels.  

[Silkhat]

I was embarrassed to admit I have about 200 cookbooks but after reading this thread I guess I am just a minnow.

 

I bought 2 new ones this past week and they contain many many wonderful recipes but are also works of arts with such great quality of printing

 

Curry Kitchen / Jacki Passmore / ISBN 9780670074488 / 313 pp / 10 in x 9.25 in

660 Curries /Raghavan Iyer / ISBN 9780761137870 /  809 pp / 9 in x 8 in   

[Alex]

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.

 

Even with Evernote, I hope you've starting doing regular back-ups, which is a thing to do.

 

Hey, this topic might make an interesting separate thread. Moderators...?

[GlorifiedRice]

 

Picked this up at Goodwill...

 

Now I can serve Lincolns Fricaseed chicken on Presidents Day

[FrogPrincesse]

+ 4

 

Moonshine! by Matt Rowley(mbrowley)

Craft Cocktails at Home by Kevin Liu

Vegetable Literacy by Deborah Maddison

The Good Cook: Terrines, Pâtés & Galantines (Time-Life Books)

 

 

 

[kayb]

I think I have added possibl 6 since my last post....

[Denadar]

I only have about 350 but I have just bought another two.    Think I'll have to buy another bookcase!    (Or a bigger house)