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


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:rolleyes: Ohmygawd; I'm VINDICATED! I'll add my (roughly) 100 books to the count; a full set of signed Frugal Gourmet (not all hard cover, though, darn it!) My favorite source is the volunteer-run sales room at the county library closest to my house; I've found some real bargains there, as well as filling out my "Southern Living Annual" collection :blush: (they have some excellent appetizers...) I'm so glad I found this thread; I think I've found some soulmates!

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I've got 48 that I can find. I think my mother has taken about 20 home with her. Then of course there are 4 boxes of magazines in my storage room. I just have no room for them all.

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I recently added the Le Bernardin Cookbook (sorry, but does anyone else think Maguy Le Coze expresses far too much Angelina Jolie-esque brotherly love in this book?) the Zuni Cafe Cookbook, and Monica Bhide's Everything Indian to my stacks.

Source for discount cookbooks: www.newbookscheap.com. Not sure if anyone's posted that on this thread yet (but I haven't read all 30+pages).

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About 175 not counting the 10 or so notebooks full of recipes I've collected over the years.

- Tom

OOPS, found a box that came from Jessica's Biscuit yesterday - 178

Tom Tyson
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My latest coup: a copy of Gustave Desnoiresterres's 1877 Grimod de la Reynière et son groupe, which I've long desired but not been able to afford. Couldn't figure out why Powell's was selling it for only $15 (as opposed to the typical $200-$400) until it arrived and I realized it had been beautifully, lovingly rebound. Since I collect for use and not for resale, and since the end result is in gorgeous condition, I'm thrilled you'd better believe! Also got a copy of Nostalgia: Taste and the Dumas Grand dictionnaire de cuisine (I already had the abridged/translated ones, but this is the complete in one volume, original French), so altogether that's another 3 for me, please, Maggie. And me, as always, singing the praises of ABE.

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I finally got to sit down with the new John Ash book and I think it's gorgeous if a bit weirdly organized. There is lots of useful information of the "I'll do it that way from now on" type and some very tempting recipes, i.e. Cold Zucchini Soup with Cinnamon, Cumin and Buttermilk. He answers questions that would come up in a class as he proceeds. It is not a replacement for your basic go-to book like Bittman or Joy, but It's a keeper. Also add just one more for me. I attended the Patricia Wells' Cooks and Books dinners here in Seattle. Fabulous food inspired by The Provence Cookbook.

Judy Amster

Cookbook Specialist and Consultant

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I finally got to sit down with the new John Ash book and I think it's gorgeous if a bit weirdly organized. There is lots of useful information of the "I'll do it that way from now on" type and some very tempting recipes, i.e. Cold Zucchini Soup with Cinnamon, Cumin and Buttermilk. He answers questions that would come up in a class as he proceeds. It is not a replacement for your basic go-to book like Bittman or Joy, but It's a keeper. .

I wish you hadn't said that. ;)

I had just been thinking tonight that I am getting itchy to get a new cookbook or two. I had briefly looked at that, and put it down. Now you have me reconsidering it.

Has anyone gotten The Girl and The Fig cookbook? I have been eyeing that one as well lately. Some interesting recipes in there...

And I do need to add 3 more to my total, all found at a Crown Books Liquidation Center: Consuming Passions; Ten Late Breakfasts, and one by Copeland Marks, about the food of Malaysia. I forget the title: the book is somewhere out in my car.

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Two more for me: The Whole Beast (had to know how to make the Roasted Bone Marrow with Parsley Salad) and this odd book called Food Mania, which turns out to be nothing but illustrations of food and cooking/dining scenes mostly from the 18the and 19th centuries. It seemd like something I should have, and it was only $10.

Oh, and I'll pick up a copy of Peter Reinhart's pizza book tonight at his class.

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Ah, Food Mania!  I keep trying to figure out if it would be possible -- and legal -- to scan in some of the pictures and use them to illustrate stuff here.

Almost certainly yes, on both counts.

EDIT: Will let you know fer sher when my copy arrives. Sigh, couldn't resist.That's another for me.

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Add four more from me. My mom brought me threee of her old cookbooks since she never cooks. Nothing really special...Martha Stewarts Ordouvres, an old Betty Crocker, Better Homes and Gardens New Cookbook and a Philadelphia Cream Cheese cookbook. (that was a present to me from my aunt when I was first learning to cook as a teen.)

I did check out 3 cookbooks from the library: Patricia Well's Provence Cookbook, Baking with Julia, and Culinaria France. :biggrin:

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it just makes me want to sit down and eat a bag of sugar chased down by a bag of flour.

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Better Homes and Gardens New Cookbook

dumplin,

What year is this cookbook? They drop some recipes with every new edition so each is different. My mom's '56 edition was falling apart so I paid about $80 for another copy as a Christmas surprise.

If your copy is old enough and in good enough condition, it could fetch a good price on eBay. Just a thought....

 

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Nothing really special...Martha Stewarts Ordouvres

:shock: I love that book...if it's the Hors D'Oeuvres Handbook. A fantastic book and I have no doubt that you will love it.

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I took a ride to my favorite used book store and came home with 6, including a copy of The Pooh cookbook for Iris and a 1962 first edition of Pancakes Aplenty by Ruth Ellen Church.

Judy Amster

Cookbook Specialist and Consultant

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:raz: Actually, I need to up my total to about 175 (I found all the stuff my house-mate stacked on the floor when he ran out of space on the bookshelves...) and add one from this weekend, when I found a copy of Jane and Michael Stern's book Square Meals for (gasp) 25 cents at the library thrift shop. Whee! I love a bargain!

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65,084. You folks have been doing some serious loving damage since last I checked in! 12.32 miles.

Hey, add two for me, due to the generosity of the SoCal Style Goddess. 65, 082.

Margaret McArthur

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Hey, I forget - where are we headed again? 12.32 miles on the way to... what?

Trio!

Hell!

The road to hell is paved with, erm...cookbooks? :wacko:

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Hey, I forget - where are we headed again? 12.32 miles on the way to... what?

Well, we could make it to the French Laundry from my house now.

Dave Valentin

Retired Explosive Detection K9 Handler

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"Got what backwards?" I ask.

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

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