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


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My last Chanukah present was How to Eat by Nigella.

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4 more thrift shop finds:

Florance Greenburgs "Jewish Cookbook".

Christopher Blakes "Easy Elegance Cookbook"

"Pierre Franey's Kitchen" by Pierre Franey

Andrew & Jinny Salmon "Seoul Food Finder".

Seems that theres something new and interesting everytime that finds me.

Irwin

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

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54,524. Six new ones for Lucky Moi!

"The Bread Bible" Rose Levy Beranbaum (She mentions our own Suvir in the acknowlegements.)

"Schott's Food and Drink Miscellany" Not published in the States yet, but when it is, treat yourself!

"Food Lover's Companion"

"Choice Cuts" Edited by Mark Kurlansky.

Two used, which I picked up at a the Book Bazaar on Bank Street in Ottawa, which has a decent cookbook section---Gee, I wish I'd had more money.

"A Cookbook for Boys and Girls" Irma Rombauer, 1952. No boy or girl ever cracked this one.

"La Bonne Table" Ludwig Bemelmans. Wonderful drawings, it goes sans dire.

Margaret McArthur

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OK, I'm finally up to 115... I got "Cooking at Home with the CIA," "Mrs. Wilkes Boardinghouse Cookbook", "Seduction of Rice," "Union Square Cafe", "Kitchen of Light" and "Aquavit" lately...

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5-ish, more:

A Basil cookbook from Mum for Christmas, Martha Stewart 2003 anathology, What Einstein Told His Cook (does that one count?), Emeril's New New Orleans, The Africa Cookbook.

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4 more, the first 3 from the Company Coming's series

The Book of Pork

Best loved Appetizers

Decadent Desserts from the Special Occassions Series

William Sonoma Christmas

Marlene

Practice. Do it over. Get it right.

Mostly, I want people to be as happy eating my food as I am cooking it.

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Six more:

Favorite Brand Name Country Italian (A clearinghouse special I'm guessing)

Salsas by Rick Bayless (pl;us a VHS tape of his show - does that count too?)

Zuni Cafe Cookbook by Judy Rodgers

Cooking by Hand by Paul Bertolli

Taste by Sybill Kapoor

La Mia Cucina Toscana by Pino Luongo.

Seven if you include the World Atlas of Wine by Johnson and Robinson

Cheers,

Geoff Ruby

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I got eight for Christmas that I mentioned above(actually nine but I gave one away), but without looking thru our library or the various rooms and just looking at what is in relatively plain sight, we have 75(including the eight). But that is only touching the surface,not looking really thru the shelves or the closets where the really big hoard is. When I have theopportunity to count I'll revise the number.

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Two more for me last week:

Patricia Wells At Home in Provence, and

(if it counts) Ruth Reichl, Comfort Me With Apples.

"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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Three (maybe four) more for me:

Cookbook:

Dornenburg and Page's Culinary Artistry

Books about food:

Food, Inc. by Peter Pringle

Best American Food Writing 2003 (Sorry, it's at home and I can't remember the editor's name. Spookily, Amazon doesn't seem to have it listed and a Google search didn't turn it up either! I'm pretty sure that's what it's called, though.)

Other (If this one counts):

Cosmopolitan; A Bartender's Life by Toby Cecchini

Cheers,

Squeat

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Having torn myself away from Iris for a moment, I'm finally ready to post some of the 35 new titles received over the holidays. In no special order:

The Cook's Canon

American Pie which I gave to mamster

Biggest Book of Cookies A BH&G book and surprisingly tempting

Food of Thailand-also for mamster

Cooking at Home with the CIA

Essentials of Baking Williams -Sonoma

Home Baking

Bittersweet

Lasagna

New York Cooks by Gillian Duffy

Field Guide to Christmas Cookies

Becoming a Chef new edition

Cheesecakes by Maxine Clark

250 Best Cakes and Pies (Canadian)

New American Chef by Dornenberg and Page

Baking 9-1-1

Book Lover's Cookbook

Little Foods of the Mediterranean

Tom Valenti's new Soups and Stews book

Celebrate by Sheila Lukins

Cooking from the Heart which supports Share Our Strength

The Neiman Marcus Cookbook

Forever Summer by Nigella

The Cheese Board Collective

Flavor by Rocco DiSpirito

Craft of Cooking

Donna Hay's Modern Classics 2

Cookwise to replace my missing copy

A thousand Years over a Hot Stove

The Encyclopedia of Sushi Rolls

Zingermans

I probably won't keep all of these, but I'll at least go through them once or twice to decide. Bittersweet and Craft of Cooking are the best of the bunch, so far. There are at least a dozen more on order and then it's back to scouting the 2nd hand stores.

Judy Amster

Cookbook Specialist and Consultant

amsterjudy@gmail.com

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Hi Maggie:

2 more for me......................Christmas gifts:

"The Ultimate Pressure Cooker Cookbook" (1997), Tom Lacalamita; to go with a Kkuhn Rikon pressure cooker I also received. I hadn't used one since I was in school..................35 years ago. It's great!

"Tadich Grill" (2002), John Briscoe; the history of that venerable San Francisco landmark as well as many other old San Francisco restaurants. This really brought back memories of meeting my father for lunch at Tadich's, Sam's, The Old Poodle Dog, The Palace Court, or Jacks..............in the '50s............all dressed up in a sportcoat and tie :biggrin: I manage to get out there a couple of times a year and still always go to Tadich's.

Bill Benge

Moab, Utah

"I like eggs", Leon Spinks

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Hey Jude,

Is the Encyclopedia of Sushi Rolls well......encyclopedic? I have seen it and am not sure if it would be useful or not.

Inquiring minds want to know. :laugh:

Brooks Hamaker, aka "Mayhaw Man"

There's a train everyday, leaving either way...

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I forgot to count the oversize books that I keep on a separate bookshelf from my other cook books:

Jean-Louis Cooking with the Seasons by Fred J. Maroon ( A gorgeous coffee-table book with photographs by Maroon of dishes by Jean-Louis Palladin ). The recipes in the back qualify it as a cook book.:smile:

Two copies of El Bulli 1998 - 2002, one in Spanish and one in English.

Also I found some great books on the discount table at my local bookstore, among them:

the bread bible by Rose levy Beranbaum

Bold American Food by Bobby Flay

Cooking at Home by Julia Child and Jaques Pepin

That last one was a real find. Buried amongst a stack of remaindered copies for $10 each was one that was autographed by Jaques and Julia!

Maggie, I finally opened one of the cartons of my mother's books, so you can add 31 to the running total.

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