Cookbooks – How Many Do You Own? (Part 3)

[Chris Amirault]

1247 I have a lovely little spread sheet helping me keep track. I have started a culinary library where I work.

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Jeebus Crickey!

You singlehandedly are plunging us toward the six-figure mark!

A hearty welcome to you, my well-organized and -libraried fellow member! Those who are about to cook salute you!

[Jeebus]

1247 I have a lovely little spread sheet helping me keep track. I have started a culinary library where I work.

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Jeebus Crickey!

You singlehandedly are plunging us toward the six-figure mark!

A hearty welcome to you, my well-organized and -libraried fellow member! Those who are about to cook salute you!

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Thanks, I have started a program that any of my cooks, waiters, managers or any one else for that matter, after signing a small legal document (to make sure my books will come back) are welcome to borrow any book for a wek at a time, no charge to them.

[suzilightning]

i must be the odd duck at this party. i have one small bookcase in my kitchen and that's it.

i go through my magazines, copy out the recipes i want then pass them on to someone else(egulleteer or friends).

actually just put an order in for the first cookbook i've bought in years: Soup:A Kosher Collection by pam reiss. i borrowed it on ILL but there were so many good recipes i bought the book rather than copy them all. so add one for me maggie!

[maggiethecat]

96,110. Anyone care to make a wager about when we'll hit 100,000? I say January, 06.

And yes, I'll send the fellow-addict who tips the turnstile at 100,000 a cookbook!

Add one for me. I took it out of the library last week, fell in love with it and needed to have my own copy: Scott Peacock and Enda Lewis's The Gift of Southern Cooking. The sautee of cymlings, the pork chops with cranberries, the Country Captain --they've all been outstanding. I intend to cook my way though this book.

[Pam R]

actually just put an order in for the first cookbook i've bought in years:  Soup:A Kosher Collection by pam reiss.  i borrowed it on ILL but there were so many good recipes i bought the book rather than copy them all.  so add one for me maggie!

Thanks - hope you enjoy it

[Chris Amirault]

I'll wager January 3: after a good 24 hours of post-Xmas and New Year counting.

[Nanna R]

I've added 38 titles in recent months, which brings my total up to - let me see - 1424:

Joys of Nepalese Cooking

Culinaria Greece

My Mother's Bolivian Kitchen

St. Kitts and Nevis Independence Cookbook

Shunju New Japanese Cuisine

50 Great Curries of India

Cocktails & Recipes - Réunion Island

Food from the Arab World

Kopiaste

The Lebanese Kitchen

Das Neue Sacher Kochbuch

The Cuisine of Cambodia

The Best of Canary Islands Cookery

Piemonte in bocca

Lítil bók um lambakjöt

Jólagóðgæti

Politikens fiskekogebog

Hr. Jensens kogebog

Umoderne mad

Sødt

Nannas salater

Familiemad

Sweetbreads, Liver and Kidney

Casa Moro

Brilliant Barbecues

The Pedant in the Kitchen

The Pheasant Cook

An Exaltation of Soups

Cupboard Love

Are You Really Going to Eat That?

Simply Seaweed

Extreme Cuisine

Recipes for Disasters

Les Halles Cookbook

Gordon Ramsay Makes it Easy

Marie Claire Kitchen

The Dinner Lady

The Berry Bible

I'm definitely going to need to get rid of my son very soon. He is taking up too much valuable space I could use for books.

[Terrasanct]

I'm definitely going to need to get rid of my son very soon. He is taking up too much valuable space I could use for books.

It worked for me. I'm turning his room into a library.

I added about 40 more this weekend.

Edited August 9, 2005 by Terrasanct (log)

[Chris Amirault]

Let's be creative here. Can your son wash dishes, scrub potatoes, or do molecular gastronomy? Maybe instead of just getting rid of him, you could trade him to Ferran Adria: have him do a few stages for free in exchange for, I dunno, the set of El Bulli books or something.

[Marlene]

Add two more for me.

Silver Palate's Good Times Cookbook

Company's Coming Most Loved Barbeques

[maggiethecat]

96191. And what a novel solution to hard-wrung cookbook space: expel family members!

[Terrasanct]

My son wasn't into cleaning, leaving the house, getting up from his computer, or much else. He was a decent cook, but I'd have to get him into the kitchen first.

I think we're both happier. He's a good kid. I doubt he begrudges my cookbook habit.

[Nanna R]

Let's be creative here. Can your son wash dishes, scrub potatoes, or do molecular gastronomy? Maybe instead of just getting rid of him, you could trade him to Ferran Adria: have him do a few stages for free in exchange for, I dunno, the set of El Bulli books or something.

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I've got the books already. But you know, he might actually be of some use at El Bulli, as he is a chemistry graduate student. And quite interested in cooking, so he isn't totally useless, although dishwashing and potato scrubbing are definitely not his strongest fields. There are a few cookbooks he plans to take with him when (if) he eventually leaves home - we'll see about that ...

[Priscilla]

Two more, on purpose, both related to recent eG reading, both long overdue!

Dorie Greenspan's Paris Sweets, and Totally Hot! by Charles Perry & two co-writers.

[judiu]

Two more for me, Debbie Moose's "Deviled Eggs" and (soon to be delivered- I hope!) "Being Dead is No Excuse" . I got Being Dead from the library for a trial run and decided I couldn't live without it! (pun intended...)

[MT-Tarragon]

I just added 13 more. I found thirteen of the Time-Life Foods of the World series for $1.49 each.

[Adam Balic]

Three more books:

"Recipes from Corsica" by Rolli Lucarotti. Looks excellent, both varied and interesting.

"The Book of Latin American Cooking" by Elisabeth Lambert Ortiz

"Indian Home Cooking" by Suvir Saran (where have I heard that name?) and Stephanie Lyness.

Will look at the last two over the next few days.

[SuzySushi]

And four more books for me:

Sensational Vegetable Recipes (a $2.99 promo from Borders, published by Bay Books)

Appetizers, Finger Food, Buffets & Parties from Hermes House

Cooking for Fun for Kids with Diabetes

and The Everything Indian Cookbook by our own Monica Bhide

[Smithy]

Add 2 more for me, courtesy of Suzilightning:

The Harrods Knightbridge Cookery Book (*swoon* - their "special occasions chapter is overkill, since it all looks like special-occasion cookery to me)

The Martha's Vineyard Cookbook, 2nd edition, by Louise Tate and Jean Steward Wexler. At last, I have a recipe for crab cakes.

These hadn't been included in Suzi's earlier count, so we aren't double-counting.

Thanks, Suzi!

[heyjude]

21 more for me, although some will go to mamster and LaurieA-B. They include a couple of slow cooker books, some Angelo Pellegrinis (he is being memorialized here in Seattle next week), some Art Culinaires and Beard on Bread which somehow I've never owned.

[Terrasanct]

I've probably got about a hundred more since last time I posted. Most of them aren't anything too exciting, but I got one that I found interesting. I guess it's not really a cookbook since it's photos of food, but it's very nice.

Here's a photo of the front of the book, which I was only able to find on a German website:

http://www.martinaberg.com/cgi-local/shop/...962522379273616

I wish you could see inside this--the photography is beautiful.

[Moderator note: This topic continues in Cookbooks – How Many Do You Own? (Part 4)]

Edited February 1, 2014 by Mjx
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