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

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SethG

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I bought three more yesterday.

So? What did you get?

You could probably guess, Heather! They are:

Lidia's Italian-American Kitchen,

Cooking at Home with The Culinary Institute of America,

and Sally Schneider's A New Way to Cook.

"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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I bought three more yesterday.

So? What did you get?

You could probably guess, Heather! They are:

Lidia's Italian-American Kitchen,

Cooking at Home with The Culinary Institute of America,

and Sally Schneider's A New Way to Cook.

Is Lidia's I-A Kitchen a different book than Lidia's Italian kitchen? And I leafed through the CIA book yesterday and liked what I saw.

I am buying ANWTC and the CIA book today, plus a couple of others I've had my eye on. Four more for me, Maggie. :smile:

Heather Johnson

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SethG

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You're thinking of Lidia's Italian Table, Heather, which is a different book. I have that one out of the library, but I haven't really delved into it yet.

"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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Just checked and rang in at: 162

I'm really excited about the last cookbook I aquired: Classical Southern Cooking by Damon Lee Fowler. From primary sources he ressurects dish from the antebellum south era in the early 1800's. Recipes are great; not esoteric and there is a lot of food history with each recipe. The book is similar to the late Bill Neal's cookbooks.

Hmm, looking back at previous posts I see a books that is on my "to buy' list:

Lidia's Italian American Kitchen

"Under the dusty almond trees, ... stalls were set up which sold banana liquor, rolls, blood puddings, chopped fried meat, meat pies, sausage, yucca breads, crullers, buns, corn breads, puff pastes, longanizas, tripes, coconut nougats, rum toddies, along with all sorts of trifles, gewgaws, trinkets, and knickknacks, and cockfights and lottery tickets."

-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 1962 "Big Mama's Funeral"

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They are two different books:

Lidia's Italian-American Kitchen

Lidia's Italian Table

I believe "Italian Table" was published first.

(Still haven't counted my cookbooks yet)

 

“Peter: Oh my god, Brian, there's a message in my Alphabits. It says, 'Oooooo.'

Brian: Peter, those are Cheerios.”

– From Fox TV’s “Family Guy”

 

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Squeat Mungry

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I'm really excited about the last cookbook I aquired: Classical Southern Cooking by Damon Lee Fowler.  From primary sources he ressurects dish from the antebellum south era in the early 1800's.  Recipes are great; not esoteric and there is a lot of food history with each recipe.  The book is similar to the late Bill Neal's cookbooks.

I'm putting this on my list. Bill Neal was one of my favorites! Have you seen Edna Lewis and Scott Peacock's The Gift of Southern Cooking? Wonderful!

I highly recommend Lidia's Italian American Kitchen. Great book!

One more for me, Maggie: I snagged Shirley Corriher's Cookwise off eBay.

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I'm putting this on my list. Bill Neal was one of my favorites! Have you seen Edna Lewis and Scott Peacock's The Gift of Southern Cooking? Wonderful!

I highly recommend Lidia's Italian American Kitchen. Great book!

Thanks for the additional recommedation on Lidia's Italian American Kitchen. I have taken it out of the library a few times to scout it out... the clams casino look wonderful and remind me of Northeastern Italian Food where I grew up (other wonderul options, but not too much of that genre out in the Bay area).

I do have two of her earlier cookbooks, Lydia's Italian Table and an even earlier one, La Cucina de Lidia. The latter one is quite interesting, focuses more on the cuisine of her native area, Istria. There are also a lot of interesting Austrian-influenced recipies from that border region.

I've been eyeing, Edna Lewis and Scott Peacocks book. I'll need to check it out again.

Classical Southern Cooking is wonderful; unfortunately it is out of print and not to easy to get... I think there is one copy on Amazon for ~$100. I don't know why they never released again or in paperback; always gets great reviews... Good Luck!

"Under the dusty almond trees, ... stalls were set up which sold banana liquor, rolls, blood puddings, chopped fried meat, meat pies, sausage, yucca breads, crullers, buns, corn breads, puff pastes, longanizas, tripes, coconut nougats, rum toddies, along with all sorts of trifles, gewgaws, trinkets, and knickknacks, and cockfights and lottery tickets."

-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 1962 "Big Mama's Funeral"

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Squeat Mungry

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Classical Southern Cooking is wonderful; unfortunately it is out of print and not to easy to get... I think there is one copy on Amazon for ~$100.  I don't know why they never released again or in paperback; always gets great reviews...  Good Luck!

Aaargh! I'm always the one with champagne tastes on a beer budget. Still, I'll keep my eye out for it. Might make a perfect holiday gift for... me!

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Classical Southern Cooking is wonderful; unfortunately it is out of print and not to easy to get... I think there is one copy on Amazon for ~$100.  I don't know why they never released again or in paperback; always gets great reviews...  Good Luck!

Aaargh! I'm always the one with champagne tastes on a beer budget. Still, I'll keep my eye out for it. Might make a perfect holiday gift for... me!

I just located a copy in our district library system. I'll be a good, honest library patron, citizen, and human being and not "lose" it. :biggrin:

"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

 

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4 more for me!

I didn't buy them though a friend who doesn't cook much gave them to me

Woman's Day Japanese Cooking

The Fine Art of Japanese Cooking --Dekura

All Colour Baking Book --British book with no author

The Hostess Cookbook --Ager and Westland

Kristin Wagner, aka "torakris"

 

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The title of this thread is How Many Cookbooks DO you own?

I'm curious. How many cookbooks do you think you SHOULD own? Given what's out there, what's your recommendation for how many books should be in a basic, well-stocked home reference libarary? How many basic books, how many baking / bread, how many books for each cuisine you want to cook? How many is too many? (Maggie, if you think this should be its own thread, please feel free to move it, or ask me to.)

One more thing-any idea who has the most? Seems to me someone in the first page or two had 5000, but I don't remember who that was. I don't want to go back and look. I'll just find more cookbooks I have to order.

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