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

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Larry

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Books on my list this season:

Donna Hay Classics 2

Paula Wolfert's Mediterranean Kitchen

Homebaking by Duguid and Alford

Martha Stewart Annual recipes 2004

Aquavit

Love getting the pretty picture ones for Christmas. Homebaking is essentially a coffee table book. Favourite book of the year to give is Jamie's Kitchen!

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I won't deserve any cookbooks for Christmas (or its deprived stepchild, Chanukah). I've been buying too many lately.

Yesterday I picked up a used copy of Schneider's Uncommon Fruits and Vegetables. The book contains hundreds of recipes, so it's one more cookbook for me.

"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 was in Kitchen Arts and Letters (great cookbook store in NYC) on Wednesday putting togther my Chanukah wishlist:

El Bulli (I put myself on the wait list - they're getting in 50 more copies)

Notebooks of Michel Bras - Desserts

Sherry Yard book

There are two others - one from Ireland (can't remember the name) and another. I've already handed Blovie the list.

Seth -- adopt our Chanukah tradition. We give each other a gift per night, to make up for our deprived childhoods where we received pajamas, gloves, and underwear.

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"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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ludja

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Finally got around to counting, and the total turned out to be fewer than I thought: 169. I guess that means I can buy more, right?

~Tad

My thoughts exactly; before this board I thought I had way too many! :laugh:

"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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bloviatrix

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You can never have too many cookbooks. Or just plain books for that matter.

"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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And another for me: Jessica B. Harris's Beyond Gumbo. But I neither bought nor stole this one; I'm working on a new book of hers, and the editor sent it with the manuscript to be a model for what I do. Is this a great racket or what? AND I get paid! :raz:

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Marion Cunningham's Lost Recipes somehow accompanied me to the checkout at Border's as I was buying a couple to gift cards the other day. What a beautiful little book. It even has a spacious pocket in the front for your own recipes.

I bought that a few months ago (yes Maggie, I already counted it.) It is such an pretty little book that it was a must-have.

PS Her cream biscuits are simply the best biscuits ever. Many, many years ago Marion Cunningham owned a restaurant called the Union Hotel in Benicia CA (Judy Rogers of Zuni Cafe was the chef) and they served these biscuits. I made them a few weeks back-they tasted just like I remembered.

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I have 34 on the way. Some are gifts, but I ordered 2 copies of those. Don't add these until I post titles. I just wanted to see the number in print. And I am grieving for the two boxes that apparently didn't make it during the move in August. Because I don't have my books properly catalogued, I'm having to come up with titles piecemeal as I reach for them. I will slowly replace them as each is a must. They include at least 2 Julias and Cookwise. Dock me if you must, but I'm planning to overcompensate. I'd guess about 40 are gone, mostly chef's books, basic reference and entertaining. All sympathy graciously accepted.

Judy Amster

Cookbook Specialist and Consultant

amsterjudy@gmail.com

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Marion Cunningham's Lost Recipes somehow accompanied me to the checkout at Border's as I was buying a couple to gift cards the other day.  What a beautiful little book.  It even has a spacious pocket in the front for your own recipes.

I bought that a few months ago (yes Maggie, I already counted it.) It is such an pretty little book that it was a must-have.

PS Her cream biscuits are simply the best biscuits ever. Many, many years ago Marion Cunningham owned a restaurant called the Union Hotel in Benicia CA (Judy Rogers of Zuni Cafe was the chef) and they served these biscuits. I made them a few weeks back-they tasted just like I remembered.

Marie-Louise: I used to enjoy breakfast at the ,"Union Hotel", during every trip from Mendocino to San Francisco for several years after being introduced to the place by Louise Fong. This continued until I returned and the management had changed.

Some of those excellent bisquits had a short return to a breakfast restaurant that had something to do with Marion Cunnubgham opened at the corner down the street from Chea Pannise in Berkeley but it didn't last very long.

The only other places i've ever enjoyed similar bisquits were in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, NY at two restaurants no longer operated by the original principals. Lundy's and Tappens who both severed then with every meal for well over 50 years.

Is the recipe in any of the Books?

Irwin

I don't say that I do. But don't let it get around that I don't.

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Deepest sympathy on your loss, heyjude. :sad: :sad:

And from me too. :sad:

54, 037. It looks as if Ms. Cunningham will be on my Christams list, if I can hold out that long.

Margaret McArthur

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Is the recipe in any of the Books?

Irwin

Yes, Irwin, the recipe for those biscuits is in Lost Recipes!

:shock: Gee, I wonder if maggie's going to be adding another cookbook for Irwin?

PS Add one more for me-I FINALLY found a copy of one of the Time Life Foods of the World Cookbooks in Berkeley (Pacific Northwest). Ten scored, 17 to go. I think I am going to order the rest online, the wait is agonizing.

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PS Add one more for me-I FINALLY found a copy of one of the Time Life Foods of the World Cookbooks in Berkeley (Pacific Northwest). Ten scored, 17 to go. I think I am going to order the rest online, the wait is agonizing.

Happy hunting! Be sure to check any Goodwill book sales in your area. I scored an entire set, plus recipe books, for $50 a few years ago. I've moved on to the Good Cook series.

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Heather Johnson

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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:

It arrived the other day. I love this book. I learn something new from nearly every page; his annotations often are more instructive than the recipe itself. He writes with authority, clarity, humor, and a Southern sensibility. ("If you want to be trendy, you can call your grits, as some demented individuals are now doing, Southern polenta, but I'd really rather not know about it." "...Charleston and Savannah...are so distinct from one another that they might as well be in different countries....Savannah, with its distinctly English plan, architecture, and sensibilities, has little of Charleston's West Indian flair.") I'm also amazed that it went out of print and that it hasn't been reissued in paperback.

"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."

 

A king can stand people's fighting, but he can't last long if people start thinking. -Will Rogers, humorist

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54, 200.

Alex, I am sooo jealous.  I want that book.  Maybe am eG groundswell can get it reissued?

Maybe. I'm in.

It originally was published by Crown Publishers, Inc., 201 East 50th St, New York, NY 10022

(212) 751-2600

"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."

 

A king can stand people's fighting, but he can't last long if people start thinking. -Will Rogers, humorist

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2 more tonight, 1 two days ago, 1 more around Thanksgiving, 4 in the mail from a nice aunt, and 2 a while ago whilst on a diet...

plus the Food Lover's companion.

There may be more, but that might mean admitting transgressions with the credit card to hub.

". . . if waters are still, then they can't run at all, deep or shallow."

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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:

It arrived the other day. I love this book. I learn something new from nearly every page; his annotations often are more instructive than the recipe itself. He writes with authority, clarity, humor, and a Southern sensibility. ("If you want to be trendy, you can call your grits, as some demented individuals are now doing, Southern polenta, but I'd really rather not know about it." "...Charleston and Savannah...are so distinct from one another that they might as well be in different countries....Savannah, with its distinctly English plan, architecture, and sensibilities, has little of Charleston's West Indian flair.") I'm also amazed that it went out of print and that it hasn't been reissued in paperback.

I feel the same way. Although I'm lucky to have found a copy; I'd be willing to help petition the publisher (I had been thinking of doing that before). Is it best to just send a letter?

Do you know Bill Neal's books also? I knew them first, and then came across Fowler's book later. Bill Neal has 2 major books: Bill Neal's Southern Cooking and Biscuits, Spoonbread and Sweet Potato Pie.

Both are excellent; the latter is just amazing in it's comprehensivness and background on Southern Baking and sweets. The former is just as good; just wish it would be longer! Luckily these books have been reissued and are also available in paperback.

I enjoyed these books so much, that I had always wanted to contact Bill Neal and let him know of my appreciation for what he had done. I never did and was so sad to hear of his untimely death.

Curious if you or maggiethecat have other favorite Southern cookbooks?

"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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