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

chile_peppa

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tpogue@comcast.net

tpogue@comcast.net

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150 in my library, many more packed up in the basement. I keep getting them in, amazon.com and jessica's biscuit love me. When a new one makes the cut and I find things I want to do it takes a spot on the bookshelfs and I pack a few away that I'm not using at the moment. After awhile I give the older unused books I am not using away. They just keep rolling in and rolling out of my house.

terry

Eating an artichoke is like getting to know someone really well.

ronnie_suburban

ronnie_suburban

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I've added 8 more in the past week. First, I picked up a $3.00 edition (used/like new) of Nigel Slater's Toast. Of course, now that it's been nominated for a Beard Award, the price on used copies plummeted this week by about $10. Go figure.

And while they are not yet in hand, I also ordered 7 used volumes of the Time-Life Good Cook Series, to finally complete my set! :smile:

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Junior

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Since I posted the first time in 03, i have added 75 books with another 9 in the mail system. Discovering ebay has been fun. :biggrin:

Dan Walker

Chef/Owner

Weczeria Restaurant

Safran

Safran

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Hum...this is partly Marlene's fault... Thank you, Marlene!

On her last count, she mentionned The Frog Commissary Cookbook, which I love and do (or rather, did) not own.... so off to Amazon I went!

Add three for me, Maggie... The Frog..., The White Dog Café Cookbook, and another I always wanted, Mustards Grill Napa Valley Cookbook....

Going to bed with cookbooks tonight. :rolleyes:

heyjude

heyjude

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I don't know how I didn't mention that among the 25 used books I got at the FOL sale one was the last one needed to complete the Good Cook series which I have been building over several years. It is Dried Beans and Grains. I could have bought the whole set, but this was much more fun. I also got Classic Home Cooking co-authored by Marlena Spieler.

Judy Amster

Cookbook Specialist and Consultant

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Alex

Alex

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90,985.

Safran: I've heard so many good things about Frog that it's now at the top of my list.

Yeah, I like it, too. Their Eden Burger is the best veggie burger I've ever had.

"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

chromedome

chromedome

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One more for me. I went back to the clearance outlet and got a copy of Apicius, the Vehling translation.

Hope the sale is still on when next payday rolls around....

“Who loves a garden, loves a greenhouse too.” - William Cowper, The Task, Book Three

 

"Not knowing the scope of your own ignorance is part of the human condition...The first rule of the Dunning-Kruger club is you don’t know you’re a member of the Dunning-Kruger club.” - psychologist David Dunning

 

bloviatrix

bloviatrix

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I don't know how many this qualifies as: 3 more volumes from the Time-Life Foods of the World series plus the accompanying booklets plus a booklet for a volume I was already in possession of.

The new volumes are Provencial France, Latin America, and Africa. The booklet is is for Pacific and SE Asia.

"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

andiesenji

andiesenji

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I bought another cookbook today. It is the just for fun cookbook, "Nanny Ogg's Cookbook" 'A useful and improving Almanack of Information including Astonishing Recipes from Terry Pratchett's Discworld.'

I am a big fan of Terry Pratchett's stories and this little book is worth buying just for the chuckles produced when reading the titles of some of the recipes.

"There are, it has been said, two types of people in the world. There are those who say: this glass is half full. And then there are those who say: this glass is half empty. The world belongs, however, to those who can look at the glass and say: What's up with this glass? Excuse me? Excuse me? This is my glass? I don't think so. My glass was full! And it was a bigger glass!" Terry Pratchett

 

bloviatrix

bloviatrix

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Oops, I forgot one today -- the new Ruth Reichl.

"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

Bisou

Bisou

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Got a new cookbook today via the KCRW Angel Club: "Spices of Life" by Nina Simonds. If anyone has any favorite recipes from this book, do chime in. :)

Toliver

Toliver

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Add one more for me.

I'd been looking for the out-of-print "Florence Lin's Complete Book of Chinese Noodles, Dumplings and Breads". I searched the usual places (eBay, Amazon Used, etc) and found lots of used copies for quite a high price. Then recently, on a lark, I decided to Google it again and found it at Powell's for a mere pittance...and it's in almost perfect condition. Either they didn't care what the going market price was or they just didn't know what they had.

So my tip for the day: Google, Google, Google...you never know when you'll find a treasure at a great price!

 

“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”

 

Tim Oliver

andiesenji

andiesenji

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Add one more for me. 

I'd been looking for the out-of-print "Florence Lin's Complete Book of Chinese Noodles, Dumplings and Breads".  I searched the usual places (eBay, Amazon Used, etc) and found lots of used copies for quite a high price.  Then recently, on a lark, I decided to Google it again and found it at Powell's for a mere pittance...and it's in almost perfect condition.  Either they didn't care what the going market price was or they just didn't know what they had.

So my tip for the day:  Google, Google, Google...you never know when you'll find a treasure at a great price!

You are so lucky. It is a wonderful book.

I agree that one needs to keep searching, sometimes using obscure or unusual words to narrow the search and thus find lesser known sites.

I have found some interesting books using bibliofind, which is a part of Amazon but often I find books via that site that do not come up on an Amazon search.

Abe books

.com is another of my favorites.

Then there is Acanthus books

which has reprints of rare and very old books, facsimiles, etc.

They also sometimes have copies of out of print books but you have to contact them and ask.

They are exceptionally nice people and very helpful.

"There are, it has been said, two types of people in the world. There are those who say: this glass is half full. And then there are those who say: this glass is half empty. The world belongs, however, to those who can look at the glass and say: What's up with this glass? Excuse me? Excuse me? This is my glass? I don't think so. My glass was full! And it was a bigger glass!" Terry Pratchett

 

WHS

WHS

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Add another 276 from us. Does Mr. Boston (drink recipes) count?

lovebenton0

lovebenton0

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i hit up ebay and grabbed two i've been lusting over.

The Tex Mex Cookbook by Robb Walsh

The Slow Mediterranean Kitchen by Paula Wolfert

both new and i'm in love... :wub:

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

tanabutler

tanabutler

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Add another 276 from us.  Does Mr. Boston (drink recipes) count?

91,283. If the drink recipes are bound in book form (as my Mr. B is) sure!

Not so fast, there, Missy.

I sold a bunch of mine.

heyjude

heyjude

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I brought 3 home from Portland, one of which I gave to an eGulleteer, so it should still count. The keepers are Art Culinaire #28 and Patisserie of the Eastern Mediterranean. Does anyone know the total number in this pastry series?

Judy Amster

Cookbook Specialist and Consultant

amsterjudy@gmail.com

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