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Cookbooks – How Many Do You Own? (Part 2)

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I saw The Lutece Cookbook at a discount/closeout book store and am now kicking myself for not purchasing it. :sad:

Well, I just +1'd my collection with an eBay win for Sweet Miniatures by Flo Braker, the expanded 2000 edition. Not sure this is a fabulous find or not, but I was curious and it was at right price. I'll be looking forward to my mailman's deliveries this week. :smile:

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beans, the Braker book is terrific as is her first, The Simple Art of Perfect Baking. She has a new edition of it coming out this year. Our own Nightscotsman is a huge fan. Ask him.

Judy Amster

Cookbook Specialist and Consultant

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balmagowry

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Ok, this is really really really embarrassing. My very bad. I'm afraid I have to have my collection docked by one. I don't know how this happened, but the other day I'm complacently looking at my shelf of literary cookbooks, and there among the whodunits, next to Sherlock Holmes and Sherlock Holmes (two different iinterpretations, I hasten to add) and Peter Wimsey and Nero Wolfe, damned if I don't see Mme. Maigret. That's funny, thinks I - is that the copy I just bought? Must be - but I don't remember it arriving and I don't remember shelving it... not recently, at any rate. And for good reason, because what should arrive today but the duplicate - hardcover where the other was paperback, but identical in all other respects. How can I have had this book for - it must be several years - and not known I had it? How could I have been so sure I didn't have it that I ordered another copy while sitting not three feet away from the shelf, nay the perfectly logical spot, on which it sits?

Such, such is the intoxication of that deadly combination, eGullet and eBay!

Still - I am ashamed. Clearly it is my responsibility to get out there and buy another cookbook, QUICK! so as not to besmirch the honor of the cooperative tally. I'm a woman on a mission! I will not fail.

BTW, I'm also a woman with a perfectly fine spare copy of Madame Maigret's Recipes, so if anyone would like it, let me know. (Hey, if it stays in the family it doesn't blight the tally after all, does it. Whew. In fact, even as a duplicate it's probably permissible. Oh good I feel a bit better now.)

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That's funny, thinks I - is that the copy I just bought?

If it makes you feel better I have bought duplicate books on several occasions. Usually those that had been on my wish list for a long time, and whenI see another for $2.50 at the used bookstore, BAM I have 2 copies. The second is then given away to a friend. "Liked it so much I had to get this for you!"

How about this for a Homeresque "doh!" - I donated some clothing to the local thrift store that shrunk or I got too fat to wear, as my wife so gently puts it. Since I am a big fan of these stores for bargain couture, a month or so later I see this great suit and buy it in too much of a hurry to really try it on, only to find - its the same one I just donated! So the Junior League gets paid twice, its for a good cause right?

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How about this for a Homeresque "doh!" - I donated some clothing to the local thrift store that shrunk or I got too fat to wear, as my wife so gently puts it. Since I am a big fan of these stores for bargain couture, a month or so later I see this great suit and buy it in too much of a hurry to really try it on, only to find - its the same one I just donated! So the Junior League gets paid twice, its for a good cause right?

:biggrin::biggrin: That's almost happened to me on more than one occasion. :wacko: Good taste is timeless, I guess.

Three more books, courtesy of eBay and Amazon. (And yes, I traveled there by way of eGullet. :$$$: )

How to Read a French Fry

The Slow Mediterranean Kitchen

Cooking at Home with the CIA

"There is no sincerer love than the love of food."  -George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, Act 1

 

"Imagine all the food you have eaten in your life and consider that you are simply some of that food, rearranged."  -Max Tegmark, physicist

 

Gene Weingarten, writing in the Washington Post about online news stories and the accompanying readers' comments: "I basically like 'comments,' though they can seem a little jarring: spit-flecked rants that are appended to a product that at least tries for a measure of objectivity and dignity. It's as though when you order a sirloin steak, it comes with a side of maggots."

 

"...in the mid-’90s when the internet was coming...there was a tendency to assume that when all the world’s knowledge comes online, everyone will flock to it. It turns out that if you give everyone access to the Library of Congress, what they do is watch videos on TikTok."  -Neil Stephenson, author, in The Atlantic

 

"In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual." -Galileo Galilei, physicist and astronomer

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balmagowry

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That's funny, thinks I - is that the copy I just bought?

If it makes you feel better I have bought duplicate books on several occasions. Usually those that had been on my wish list for a long time, and whenI see another for $2.50 at the used bookstore, BAM I have 2 copies. The second is then given away to a friend. "Liked it so much I had to get this for you!"

How about this for a Homeresque "doh!" - I donated some clothing to the local thrift store that shrunk or I got too fat to wear, as my wife so gently puts it. Since I am a big fan of these stores for bargain couture, a month or so later I see this great suit and buy it in too much of a hurry to really try it on, only to find - its the same one I just donated! So the Junior League gets paid twice, its for a good cause right?

Snif...

Thanks, doc, that does help a bit. (And I love the suit story! I thought things like that only happened to me.)

Snif...

It's just... y'see... I made a big deal right here on this very forum about the Maigret, and several people were most kind and enthusiastic in endorsing it and telling me how much I would enjoy it, and... and I said polite things about how I was looking forward to it because I'd heard so much about it - and mind you I was, and I had - and me the whole time with my own copy right there under my nose, and... well, anyway, I just felt kind of silly, is all. :blush:

Snif... :grabs kleenex: HONK!

There. I feel better now. Thanks....

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balmagowry

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Well, that's four more for me. The Waldorf-Astoria Cookbook, as discussed on the Red Velvet controversy thread in the Southeast forum, and all three of John Whiting's book recommendations from the Pressure Cooker Recipes thread. Sigh. One of the three I really hadn't meant to buy - but as with the Waldorf book, I really don't see how one can avoid it when the books are so underpriced that a good copy goes for less than the cost of shipping! Under such circumstances it would be downright immoral to resist. Yes, I have done my duty by buying twice as many books as I intended. And if the dealers want to start paying me to take the books - well, I'm ready for that sacrifice too.

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Will the madness never end? Four more, courtesy of Bargain Books' 25%-off sale:

50 Chowders, Jasper White

Monday to Friday Cookbook, Michele Urvater

The Livebait Cookbook

The Artist's Table

"There is no sincerer love than the love of food."  -George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, Act 1

 

"Imagine all the food you have eaten in your life and consider that you are simply some of that food, rearranged."  -Max Tegmark, physicist

 

Gene Weingarten, writing in the Washington Post about online news stories and the accompanying readers' comments: "I basically like 'comments,' though they can seem a little jarring: spit-flecked rants that are appended to a product that at least tries for a measure of objectivity and dignity. It's as though when you order a sirloin steak, it comes with a side of maggots."

 

"...in the mid-’90s when the internet was coming...there was a tendency to assume that when all the world’s knowledge comes online, everyone will flock to it. It turns out that if you give everyone access to the Library of Congress, what they do is watch videos on TikTok."  -Neil Stephenson, author, in The Atlantic

 

"In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual." -Galileo Galilei, physicist and astronomer

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Suzanne F

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Well, I WAS going to say 6 more -- but then at the bank they were holding a bazaar for the March of Dimes, and, well, you know.

So in addition to:

Tradewinds and Coconuts by Jennifer Brennan

Cooking with Steam by Stephanie Lyness (didn't she work with Suvir on his book??)

Traditional Food from Scotland: The Edinburgh Book of Plain Cookery Recipes

Taste of Eritrea by Olivia Warren

The Art of South American Cookery by Myra Waldo (whatever became of her?) and

Mayan Cooking: Recipes from the Sun Kingdom of Mexico by Cherry Hamman

I also have Real Stew by Clifford Wright.

:blush:

The first bunch are all on sale, deeply discounted, at Jessica's Biscuit.

(edited to add link)

Oh, wait -- and 3 more to review for TDG!

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Two more for me:

Carol Field, The Italian Baker.

Rose Levy Beranbaum, The Pie & Pastry Bible.

Both bought at a used bookstore, cheap.

"I don't mean to brag, I don't mean to boast;

but we like hot butter on our breakfast toast!"

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Library benefit sale!

The Thrill of the Grill by Schlesinger & Willoughby

License to Grill by Schlesinger & Willoughby (can you tell I like them?)

All About Meat by Leon & Stanley Lobel

Joy of Cooking (from the 70's)

Frugal Gourmet's Immigrant Ancestors

Thank you Half.com

Simply Ming by Ming Tsai

Simply Ming is my new favorite cookbook.

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Maggie, did you include my 5 from the cookbook thread in Cooking? Well, now add two more. A B&B cookbook and Baking Illustrated. One hit and one miss. The Cook's Illustrated baking book looks great and should be of interest to the Self-Improvement through Pastry participants.

Judy Amster

Cookbook Specialist and Consultant

amsterjudy@gmail.com

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Jeeez...if i count the walls that are covered .....hmmmm maybe close to 1100....

I usally send 8 or 9 boxes home from the fires throughout season since there so many wonderful sources around the US.

Its like Christmas when I finally get home to open up the treasures that I have picked up......

And the forestfire fighters benefit from the ideas that I have used in their meals that were inspired by these books

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My student loan brought me Escoffier and a Larousse (okay, I know, but it *does* contain lots of recipes). And my wife returned from visiting family with a 30-year-old copy of the Mennonite Treasury of Recipes. It's not all Mennonite food, mind you...when I opened it at random, I found myself looking at a recipe for gefilte fish.

So that's three more.

“Who loves a garden, loves a greenhouse too.” - William Cowper, The Task, Book Three

 

"Not knowing the scope of your own ignorance is part of the human condition...The first rule of the Dunning-Kruger club is you don’t know you’re a member of the Dunning-Kruger club.” - psychologist David Dunning

 

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Add 53 for me...I feel so inadequate....BUT, I do have the small (falling apart) cookbook that my great grandmother brought with her from NY to Kansas in a covered wagon.

Dave Valentin

Retired Explosive Detection K9 Handler

"So, what if we've got it all backwards?" asks my son.

"Got what backwards?" I ask.

"What if chicken tastes like rattlesnake?" My son, the Einstein of the family.

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Suzanne F

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Just back from Portland, OR -- and that means Powell's! (And Daedalus, too.)

Time-Life Foods of the World: Middle Eastern, both hardcover* and spiral-bound recipe booklet

Time-Life Foods of the World: African Cooking, the spiral-bound recipe booklet*

Cooks' Tools by Susan Campbell

Kitchens: the Culture of Restaurant Work by Gary Alan Fine

Eating Out: Social Differentiation, Consumption and Pleasure by Alan Warde and Lydia Martens

Cornucopia: A gastronomic tour of Britain by Paul Richardson

Beyond Bok Choy: a cook's guide to Asian vegetables by Rosa Lo San Ross

Cordon Bleu Dictionary of Cookery Terms (1972)

a Dover book of food and drink pictures from the 19th century

The Art of Cooking and Serving by Sarah Field Splint (published by Proctor & Gamble, 1928)

Aunt Sammy's Radio Recipes Revised from the Bureau of Home Economics, USDA, 1931.

* Do these 2 still count here? I didn't have my list with me so they are doubles. :blush:

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Suzanne, it sounds like you needed an extra suitcase to bring all your finds homes. :laugh:

"Some people see a sheet of seaweed and want to be wrapped in it. I want to see it around a piece of fish."-- William Grimes

"People are bastard-coated bastards, with bastard filling." - Dr. Cox on Scrubs

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