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

heyjude · February 3, 2004

Six more for me. A gift from a friend, all categories including Mary Frampton's Rock and Roll Cookbook from 1980.

zennenn · February 6, 2004

More cookbooks!

Madhur Jaffrey's Step by Step Cooking

The Nouvelle Cuisine of Jean and Pierre Troisgros

French Regional Cooking, Anne Willan

EllenC · February 6, 2004

Sorry it's taken me so long Maggie! You can put me down for 181. I decided after counting that I need to spend more time with my cookbooks. I wonder how my boss will feel about that?

aliénor · February 6, 2004

yikes! i never counted them before, just ordered what i wanted. and now after counting 175 in the downstairs bookcase i am not going up to the bedrooms to see how many more are stuffed in those areas. some are much more used than others and some are just old friends. when we lived in barcelona i had to have coleman andrews, in england i had to have the entire eliz david and in france, don't ask. but nowadays when we travel i don't ship my favorite books, but instead go via the net to local cooking sites. during my time in france, i got recipes from "the family" and checked all the foodie magazine on the newstands. reading cookbooks, and recipes in foregn languages is really not too hard. after all most of us know what to do after you melt the butter in the saute pan...

we should have reached the moon by now

:biggrin:

froufrou · February 6, 2004

Too many to count! If you throw in the Southern Living magazine with all the printouts, it's crazy.

My husband says if I only cooked as much as books I own, life would be great.

We have moved 5 times in 7 years of our marriage and I drag these from country to country.

I think if I buy one more..he is going to lose it!

With the great net now days, you can find anything...that's another thing, printing out all that mess...I have it all, prints, cookbooks and magazines.

We leave are leaving our Paris apartment headed to our new home in Scotland Sat. 14th and I'm thinking maybe I should get read of my magazines but as they remind me of home...Louisiana...I can't bear the thought of tossing them out, however I might do it anyways just to free me of this craziness I have of recipes.

No more cook books for me!

r.

ronnie_suburban · February 6, 2004

Too many to count! If you throw in the Southern Living magazine with all the printouts, it's crazy....

C'mon froufrou, throw a number out there! :biggrin:

=R=

flybottle · February 8, 2004

70 in all, though just about half of them count more as food writing books than cookbooks.

I started with Marcella's Classic Italian Cook Book almost 12 years ago and for a long time I felt like I'd be unfaithful if I'd looked at any other cookbooks.

I guess I couldn't pick a current favorite, though I've been tending towards American eats. Beard is my most trusted guide there except when it comes to chili, in which case Tolbert takes the lead.

maggiethecat · February 8, 2004

Whahoo! 56, 707.

Alex · February 8, 2004

I just did some figuring. At your estimate of 12" per book, 56,707 books placed end-to-end comes to 17.28429 km. (Trying not to be USA-centric here.)

As part of your offices -- Keeper Of The Count and Vice-Mistress of Heartland Fun (or is that Mistress of Fun Heartland Vice?) -- I suggest a declaration of an International eGullet Day of Revelry when we hit 20 km -- 65,617 books.

(Now that I think of it, pretty much every day is an eGullet day of revelry. But this would be official. :cool: )

Suzanne F · February 8, 2004

For those who came in late and don't quite get the standard of measurement:

So assuming that cookbook height averages 12", we have 2.83 miles of cookbooks end-to-end.

And we haven't even reached the 1-year anniversary of this thread!! (February 20).

McDuff · February 9, 2004

I lost count somewhere between 350 and 400, and that only includes what's out on bookshelves and not in the boxes under the stairs.

Marlene · February 9, 2004

Oh dear. Another 6 for me this weekend. What am I going to do with all these cookbooks? :blink:

Cynthia G · February 9, 2004

54

heyjude · February 9, 2004

Add 2.

ExtraMSG · February 9, 2004

I just realized I can answer this question an easier way:

However, I do have a few on order that should be here any day (plus several of my food lit books are on another shelf because I'm actually reading them right now):

Chez Panisse Fruit

Martha Stewart's Hors d'ouerves

Diana Kennedy's From My Mexican Kitchen

The Quick Recipe

Aquavit

Flocko · February 9, 2004

7 more for me :biggrin:

Two new ones from my local bookstore, both from recommendations on e-gullet......Thanks!:

"Cosmopolitan, A Bartender's Life", (2003), Toby Cecchini

"The Kitchen Book, The Cook Book", (1970..........new printing 2002), Nicolas Freeling

And a few more "rediscoveries" from the "house of lost, missing, and misplaced books" :rolleyes: :

"Paul Bocuse's French Cooking", (1977), Paul Bocuse

"Tout de Suite a la Microwave", (1977), Jean K. Durkee (Cajun/Creole recipes adapted for the microwave; a spiral bound "touristy" type book, but does have a microwave roux method I have used to success when short of time)

"Hopi Cookery" (1980), Juanita Tiger Kavena

"Renaissance Recipes", (1993), Gillian Riley

"A Chef for All Seasons", (2000), Gordon Ramsay

chow guy · February 9, 2004

I counted 247 ( and I got rid of boxes and boxes three years ago when we moved). They seem to multiply when you're not looking.

sequim · February 9, 2004

I just realized I can answer this question an easier way:

Ah, Gourmet Cooking for Dummies :raz:

fifi · February 10, 2004

Add 3 for me.

2 James Villas

Pepin's Apprentice ('cause I keep forgetting to order it)

*Note to self... Do NOT start discussing books with Richard Kilgore while the laptop is in front of me with a window to Amazon open.*

ExtraMSG · February 10, 2004

Ah, Gourmet Cooking for Dummies

Signed copy from Trotter. A gift from a friend when we ate there. Actually a decent book.

bloviatrix · February 10, 2004

I decided to check out the new Borders that opened at the Time Warner Center and walked out with a new book. It's one of the Food & Wine Annuals. It was on the bargain shelves for $5.99 which is less than a bar of good chocolate. :smile:

wesza · February 10, 2004

American Gourmet by Jane and Michael Stern 1991

The Good Food of Szechwan by Robert A Delfs 1974

Iron Chef the Official Book edited by Staff of Iron Chef 2000

The Chinese Jewish Cookbook by Ruth and Bob Grossman 1963

Cheese Cookery by Doris McFerran Townsend 1980

A Taste in Time by Beverly Sutherland Smith [signed] 1984

Glorious American Food by Christopher Idones 1985

Matters of Taste by Nathalie Dupree 1990

All in excellent condition with covers. Thriftshops are fun when your lucky.

Irwin :biggrin:

Annie Girl · February 11, 2004

Afraid I haven't made a scientific count (and I am a CPA), but I am estimating around 400 if I figure 30 per shelf, more or less.

I have to "purge" them periodically, so right now about 50 are in my basement awaiting review by my stepdaughter and stepson.

And I will never discard my vintage Julia Child, Michael Field, etc......

ExtraMSG · February 11, 2004

I think we need an egullet book exchange program.

SethG · February 11, 2004

Just added the Laurel's Kitchen Whole Grain Bread Book (the new edition, not the old out-of-print one).

Fourteen bucks at the Strand annex.

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