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

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Shit. I'm cleaning out an unfinished room in the house. We have purchased the framing and insulation, so it's time to make this room a room.

So, in the process, I determined that I was getting rid of everything in there, since we haven't looked at any of it in almost 10 months.

But, as a precaution, I did open the lids of all of the boxes. 26 boxes ready for the landfill. One box of dress up clothes (including my wedding dress) destined for my cousin's little girls.

One box was cookbooks saved by my dad from his mother's house, augmented by my mother and sister. :wub::wub:

Add 26 for me that I didn't even know I had, including a dog-eared copy of "Cutting Up In The Kitchen" and a pristine copy of Florence Lin's noodle and dumpling book. And, what appears to be every Farm Journal Cookbook ever published. I now have two copies of most of the latter. You can't go wrong with those FJ pickle/canning or freezing books.

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hillvalley

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snowangel, what a find!

Add 2 more to the count.

I was bored at work last week and found my way over to Overstock. Today I came home to Patricia Wells' Trattoria and the infamous Zuni Cafe (which I got for 40% off!!!!!!). The latter was a total eg peer envy purchase after hearing about snowangel's delight with the recipes.

True Heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic.

It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost,

but the urge to serve others at whatever cost. -Arthur Ashe

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Add two more for me. The Gourmet Cookbook (60+ years and 1,000+ recipes chosen from the publication with notes) came in the mail today from goodcook.com. Great prices there. This was not the book I thought I ordered, but that was strictly my mistake. After flipping through it's staying anyway! :rolleyes:

Also the Edible Mexican Garden Cookbook from a eg member in the cookbook swap. Beautiful oversize book -- and the recipes look delicious too. Ideal accompaniment for my garden, and the other book I received, but it's a kitchen gardening advice/almanac compilation not cookbook. The price -- free -- was perfect on that one! :raz::biggrin:

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Hi, my name is Alex, and I'm a cuisino-biblioholic. It's been 2½ months since my last cookbook.

I've been doing well -- I put ecookbooks.com on my list of blocked sites, rewarded myself with a scoop of Ben and Jerry's when I checked a cookbook out of the library instead of buying it, and did my daily reading from One Recipe at a Time.

However, temptation has again crossed my path, this time in the form of a "please come back" package from The Good Cook, and I don't know how long I can hold out. Four books for a dollar, buy another at the regular price, and that's it. Hey, like they say, I can quit any time I want.

"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."

 

"...in the mid-’90s when the internet was coming...there was a tendency to assume that when all the world’s knowledge comes online, everyone will flock to it. It turns out that if you give everyone access to the Library of Congress, what they do is watch videos on TikTok."  -Neil Stephenson, author, in The Atlantic

 

"In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual." -Galileo Galilei, physicist and astronomer

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However, temptation has again crossed my path, this time in the form of a "please come back" package from The Good Cook, and I don't know how long I can hold out. Four books for a dollar, buy another at the regular price, and that's it. Hey, like they say, I can quit any time I want.

Me too!

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I used my Barnes & Nobles Christmas gift card today and am thrilled with my six new books:

Jeffery Alford & Naomi Duguid: Hot Sour Salty Sweet

Anthony Bourdain's Les Halles Cookbook

Alton Brown: I'm Just Here for the Food

John Folse: The Evolution of Cajun and Creole Cuisine

Madhur Jaffrey: Indian Cooking

Alice Waters: Chez Panisse Vegetables

Um, this is embarrassing, but could you subtract these six from the total?

I had a $100 gift card to B&N and went nuts and spent a little under $200 on the listed cookbooks. Got home and had buyer's remorse, especially when I checked Amazon and realized I could have bought the same books for $120 (with super saving free shipping). I returned them all to B&N and although the books are now in my Amazon shopping cart, I'm resisting pulling the trigger for now.

I'll save my gift card for when Chef John Folse's Encyclopedia of Cajun and Creole Cuisine comes in.

Dear Food: I hate myself for loving you.

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However, temptation has again crossed my path, this time in the form of a "please come back" package from The Good Cook, and I don't know how long I can hold out. Four books for a dollar, buy another at the regular price, and that's it. Hey, like they say, I can quit any time I want.

Me too!

Me three!! With the 'Gourmet' book and a rick bayless book one of my $1 picks

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Hi, my name is Alex, and I'm a cuisino-biblioholic. It's been 2½ months since my last cookbook.

I've been doing well -- I put ecookbooks.com on my list of blocked sites, rewarded myself with a scoop of Ben and Jerry's when I checked a cookbook out of the library instead of buying it, and did my daily reading from One Recipe at a Time.

However, temptation has again crossed my path, this time in the form of a "please come back" package from The Good Cook, and I don't know how long I can hold out. Four books for a dollar, buy another at the regular price, and that's it. Hey, like they say, I can quit any time I want.

The good news is that I've still managed to resist this temptation.

The other good news is that I got seven books at a Bargain Books half-off cookbook sale for $35:

Ready When You Are, Martha Rose Shulman

Great Tastes Made Simple, Andrea Immer

Chez Panisse Cooking, Paul Bertolli

White Dog Cafe Cookbook, Wicks & Von Klause

off the eaten path, Bob Blumer

Cooking With Claudine and Jacques Pépin's Table, Jacques Pépin

Also, from the remainder table at a Schuler Books, Cheese Primer, Steven Jenkins.

"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."

 

"...in the mid-’90s when the internet was coming...there was a tendency to assume that when all the world’s knowledge comes online, everyone will flock to it. It turns out that if you give everyone access to the Library of Congress, what they do is watch videos on TikTok."  -Neil Stephenson, author, in The Atlantic

 

"In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual." -Galileo Galilei, physicist and astronomer

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Despite the lack of space to expand my collection, I've added 24 new titles. There are about 40 more that I want and then I'll be out of room. What will I do for the rest of my life? Most of the culling has already been done. I hope this is the worst problem I ever have. The new ones include:

All About Braising by Molly Stevens

The Gourmet Cookbook

Big Fat Cookies by Elinor klivans

More From Magnolia by Alyssa Torey

The Weekend Baker by Abigail Dodge

Best Food Writing 2004 (with mamster's eGullet piece)

Cover and Bake by Cook's Illustrated

Baking at Home with The Culinary Institute of America

David Rosengarten Entertains

Schott's Food and Drink Miscellany

Chocolate Bar by Lewis and Nelson

Gratins by Tina Salter

Best American Recipes 2004-2005

Feast by Nigella Lawson

The King Arthur Cookie Companion

Cooking New American by Editors of Fine Cooking

A Baker's Field Guide to Chocolate Chip Cookies by Dede Wilson

and several more that are at Matthew and Laurie's or otherwise on loan

All in all, a good season and most of these will stay.

Judy Amster

Cookbook Specialist and Consultant

amsterjudy@gmail.com

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Hi, my name is Alex, and I'm a cuisino-biblioholic. It's been 2½ months since my last cookbook.

I've been doing well -- I put ecookbooks.com on my list of blocked sites, rewarded myself with a scoop of Ben and Jerry's when I checked a cookbook out of the library instead of buying it, and did my daily reading from One Recipe at a Time.

However, temptation has again crossed my path, this time in the form of a "please come back" package from The Good Cook, and I don't know how long I can hold out. Four books for a dollar, buy another at the regular price, and that's it. Hey, like they say, I can quit any time I want.

The good news is that I've still managed to resist this temptation.

The other good news is that I got seven books at a Bargain Books half-off cookbook sale for $35:

Ready When You Are, Martha Rose Shulman

Great Tastes Made Simple, Andrea Immer

Chez Panisse Cooking, Paul Bertolli

White Dog Cafe Cookbook, Wicks & Von Klause

off the eaten path, Bob Blumer

Cooking With Claudine and Jacques Pépin's Table, Jacques Pépin

Also, from the remainder table at a Schuler Books, Cheese Primer, Steven Jenkins.

Yeah, I know -- resistance is futile.

My four from The Good Cook:

The Gourmet Cookbook

King Arthur Baking Cookbook

Simply Ming

Patrick O'Connell Refined American Cuisine

And, in advance, my required purchase will be Zingerman's Guide to Good Eating.

"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."

 

"...in the mid-’90s when the internet was coming...there was a tendency to assume that when all the world’s knowledge comes online, everyone will flock to it. It turns out that if you give everyone access to the Library of Congress, what they do is watch videos on TikTok."  -Neil Stephenson, author, in The Atlantic

 

"In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual." -Galileo Galilei, physicist and astronomer

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Pweaver1984

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Just starting to browse Egullet, been a member for a while but mainly stuck to the UK & Ireland forum. Seen this topic just after I'd sorted my books(food related) out so thought I must write down my collection in no particular order:

Bouchon... Thomas Keller

Food Heroes, Seafood... Rick Stein

Complete Cookery Year... Gary Rhodes

Oxford Comapanion to Food... Davidson

Ultimate Curry Bible... Madhur Jaffery

Les Halles Cookbook, Kitchen Confidential, Cooks Tour... Tony Bourdain

The Stars Chefs Cookbook

First Time Cook, Fish, The Complete... Sophie Grigson

Culianry Artistry

Le Bernadin Cookbook

Fish etc... Mark Hix

Chefs Compendium of Proffessional Recipes... John Fuller

Thai Food... David Thompson

Ballymaloe Cookery Course... Darina Allen

Feast... Nigella Lawson

Jamies Dinners... Jamie Oliver

The Three Chimneys... Shirly Spear

The Elements of Taste... Gray Kunz

Kitchen Heaven... Gordon Ramsey

Merchant House, How to Cook Better... Shaun Hill

Italian Kitchen... Alastair Little

Sauces, Life is Menu... Michel Roux

Conran Cookbook

Classic Bull... Stephen Bull

Starters... Shane Osbourne

Seasonal Food... Paul Waddington

Canapes... Eric Teuille

Culinary Calculations

Complete Le Cordon Bleu Techinques Book

Complete Mushroom Book... Antonio Carluccio

Relax its Only Food... John Torode

Simple French Recipes... Guy Savoy

Cooking for Two... Roux Brothers

Top 100 Food Recipes From Food and Drink TV Series

Real Cooking, Toast, Real Food... Nigel Slater

The Cooks Encyclopedia... Tom Stobart

What Einstein Told His Cook... Robert L. Wolke

Complete Book of Vegetables, Herbs and Fruit

Chefs Book of Formulas, Yields and Sizes

Nose to Tail Eating... Fergus Henderson

The Gormet Cookbook... Ruth Reichl

How to Cook Everything... Mark Bittman

The Rice Book... Sri Owen

Vegetable Book... Jane Grigson

Cutting it Fine... Andrew Parkinson

Soul of a Chef... Micehal Rulhman

It Must've Been Something I Ate... Jeffery Steingarten

Roast Chicken and Other Stories, Roast Chicken and Other Stories Second Helpings!!!... Simon Hopkinson

Le Repertoire de La Cusine

Elizabeth David Classics

Fast Food Nation... Eric Schlosser

The Kitchen and The Cook... Nicholas Freeling

Complete Techniques... Jacques Pepin

My Gastronomy... Nico Ladenis

White Heat... Marco Pierre White

How manys that to add to the list then??

IM me if any one has any recommendations please

Happy Reading Guys!

I went into a French restaraunt and asked the waiter, 'Have you got frog's legs?' He said, 'Yes,' so I said, 'Well hop into the kitchen and get me a cheese sandwich.'

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3 more for me - Gourmet, The Far East Cafe (nice pics), and Mexican Family Favorites as mentioned in the Carnitas thread.

Burgundy makes you think silly things, Bordeaux makes you talk about them, and Champagne makes you do them ---

Brillat-Savarin

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gaaaahhh!! have another six to confess to - how did that happen?!? Of course I am secretly very pleased with all my purchases but felt it was good form to at least pretend that I am appalled at my lack of self discipline:

So we have ....

Harold McGee - on Food and Cooking. Well, couldn't not have it really could I? The only thing is, I tend to read my cookbooks in bed - but I fear falling asleep in the small hours of the morning, only to wake - gasping for breath as the weight of the book crushes the air from my lungs! :laugh:

Tessa Kiros - Falling Cloudberries - had resisted for a long time but it is in fact a lovely lovely book. It's basically a collection of family recipes, but given the author's exotic and well travelled roots (born in London to a Finnish mother and a Greek-Cypriot father. Spent much of childhood in South Africa before travels through Asia and Europe and cooking in London, Sydney, Athens and Mexico. She then married an Italian and now lives in Tuscany!) - it's a pretty big spread.

Then - some bargains in the recent sales - such as

Chantal Coady (of Rococco) - chocolate - for bargain price of £3.50. That's just under $7 at current exchange rates, but under normal rates of £1=$1.5 - taht would be $5!!

Usula Ferrigno - Bringing Italy Home - only £5

Henrietta Green et al - fast food for friends - £3

Nick Nairn - 100 salmon recipes - £5 or so?

The last two were purchased from a remainders store in York - and so it's amazing I only left with two books!!

All in all - not a bad haul. Need to start doing some more cooking don't I?!?

Cheers

Yin

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I have been seriously remiss in not tallying the count this week. Lord, I'm jealous.

(Pweaver, I counted: 55. Alex, just give up already -- at least it's legal. Susan, what a wonderful discovery.)

77,709. Just get your heads around that figure! And I know it's probably only about a quarter of what the Society really owns.

Margaret McArthur

"Take it easy, but take it."

Studs Terkel

1912-2008

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I forgot to respond to reject my Good Cook club book-of-the-month, so now I have the new Gourmet (of the infamous yellow type). I can't believe how much I like this cookbook. So far I've made vanilla ice cream, ricotta hotcakes--both great.

Just have to add here how often lately I've used the new Jacques Pepin Fast Food My Way (already included in my previous count). That book has helped me get dinner on the table at the last minute about 5 times already. And everything's been something I will make again (!).

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Upthread I added these 6:

Jeffery Alford & Naomi Duguid: Hot Sour Salty Sweet

Anthony Bourdain's Les Halles Cookbook

Alton Brown: I'm Just Here for the Food

John Folse: The Evolution of Cajun and Creole Cuisine

Madhur Jaffrey: Indian Cooking

Alice Waters: Chez Panisse Vegetables

And a few days later, I asked to remove them from the total, as I'd returned them to Barnes & Noble.

Of course, I've now replaced five of them (all but the John Folse one) by ordering from Amazon, and today I purchased 3 more:

Mark Bittman: How to Cook Everything

Molly Stevens: All About Braising

John Uglesich: Uglesich's Restaurant Cookbook

Now, have I totally screwed things up? (If it makes it any easier, I retabulated and I'm pretty sure you never subtracted the 6, so that would mean adding only two to the total list.)

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Add one very special title for me; Monica Bhide's The Everything Indian Cookbook, personally signed by the author herself. :wub: :wub: :wub:

=R=

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After the holidays I reported that the copy of Bouchon I received was only a stand-in until TFL arrived.

Well, Blovie got me a new copy of Bouchon. It showed up yesterday. As I stated back then, I knew I would get it eventually.

"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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Maggie:

Well, after over a year and a half, I have finally cleaned out and moved from the "house of lost and misplaced books"

Add 207 to my total, including a copy of Jacques Pepins Complete Techniques my wife got me for Christmas :biggrin:

The books from the "house of lost and misplaced books" include (but aren't limited to :wink: the following:

"Chez Panisse Menu Cookbook"

"Chez Panisse; Pasta, Pizza, and Calzone"

Barbara Tropp, "China Moon"

Mark Miller, "Coyote Cafe"

Fernand Point, "Ma Gastronomie" 1974

"Creole Feast".....15 chefs

"The Restaurants of New Orleans", edited by Roy F. Guste Jr.

"Antoines Restaurant Cookbook" Roy F. Guste Jr.

"Arnauds's Creole Cookbook", John DeMers

Numerous Prudhomme books

"Cooking With Michael Field"

Several Beard, Julia, and Claiborne books including Claiborne's great 4 volume compilation of his columns from the NY Times, "Craig Claiborne's Favorites" :biggrin:

...........and many, many more waiting to be rediscovered and treasured!

Flocko

Bill Benge

Moab, Utah

"I like eggs", Leon Spinks

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After the holidays I reported that the copy of Bouchon I received was only a stand-in until TFL arrived.

Well, Blovie got me a new copy of Bouchon.  It showed up yesterday.  As I stated back then, I knew I would get it eventually.

Oh good, blovi! All is well... :biggrin:

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Add Molly Steven's All About Braising for me.

Marlene, I think you're going to love this one!!! :biggrin: I do! :wub:

Add one more for me -- belated Christmas gift received last night --

Art Fare: A Commemorative Celebration of Art and Food

The Toledo Museum of Art Aides

Stunning cookbook! Gorgeous food photography, and depictions of original art focus on celebrating the eye candy appeal of a well-presented meal and natural foods in painting, sculpture, and jewlery. Oh my, and the recipes look good too! :rolleyes::biggrin:

Judith Love

North of the 30th parallel

One woman very courteously approached me in a grocery store, saying, "Excuse me, but I must ask why you've brought your dog into the store." I told her that Grace is a service dog.... "Excuse me, but you told me that your dog is allowed in the store because she's a service dog. Is she Army or Navy?" Terry Thistlewaite

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Add from me:

Alastair Little... : Keep it Simple

John Burton Race... : Coming Home

The Babbo Cookbook... : Mario Batali

Guide du Fromage

The New Making of a Cook... : Madeleine Kamman

Paul

I went into a French restaraunt and asked the waiter, 'Have you got frog's legs?' He said, 'Yes,' so I said, 'Well hop into the kitchen and get me a cheese sandwich.'

Tommy Cooper

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