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

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Jake

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Haven't weighed in here yet, and was doing some reorganizing today and did a count:

85 for me right now --- but that could change in the near future. :biggrin:

Barbara Laidlaw aka "Jake"

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Marlene

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oops. Add one for me from Suzielightning and 1 for Vancouver Cooks.

hey, marlene i thought i was sending you two...unless you are regifting(a process i wholeheartedly approve of as an environmentalist). plus i have a little freebie in the package, too.

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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dknywbg

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141 for me.

Latest additions:

Barefoot in Paris by Ina Garten

Pure Chocolate by Fran Bigelow

Chocolate American Style by Lora Brody

Perpetual favorites:

The Barefoot Contessa Cookbook by Ina Garten

The King Arthur Flour Baker's Companion

Flavors of Puglia by Nancy Harmon Jenkins

How to Cook Everything by Mark Bittman

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Dani Mc

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ummmm....add 23 for me.  Just got 23 of the books in the 'Time-Life Good Cook' series.

husband will not be amused.

:jealous:

Just remind him how much it would have cost had you bought all the books they have taken recipes from. :raz:

Dude...Ebay. There are some complete sets for sale as we speak. Get ye there and start bidding.

I'm missing 5 books:

Crackers and Cookies

Fish

Shellfish

Classic Desserts

Preserving

I saw a couple of the Desserts books today, but right now I'm really hot to get Fish and Shellfish. If you see them, definitely let me know.

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Anna N

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Fast Food My Way by Jacques Pepin - $25 Canadian at Cosco! They also had both Thomas Keller books on for just less than $40 Canadian - I resisted with effort!

Anna Nielsen aka "Anna N"

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maggiethecat

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75,267. Good grief, that is a poopload of cookbooks.

Actually, 75,268. I sent Jacques Pepin's "Celebrations" to an eGull who hasn't found time to post it here.

And I'm starting to feel like the shoemaker's wife! Time for me to hit Amazon and rustle me up some inspiration.

Margaret McArthur

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Suzanne F

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I'm missing 5 books:

Crackers and Cookies

Fish

Shellfish

Classic Desserts

Preserving

I saw a couple of the Desserts books today, but right now I'm really hot to get Fish and Shellfish.  If you see them, definitely let me know.

Nya, nya, I've got Preserving and you don't. :raz::laugh:

Thanks, but I'll pass on eBay. (I'm a coward. :blush:) I'll just keep checking at my favorite used book stores.

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judiu

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Due to the generosity of many e-Gulleters, and the Friends of the Library store, my count has zoomed to 35, one of which is a Christmas gift for my boss. I can't quote the title exactly, but it's a collection of recipes from Commanders Palace in NO. And, as it has been said, it's not even Christmas yet! :raz:

"Commit random acts of senseless kindness"

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bloviatrix

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One more for me -- Foods of India (from the Time Life series) in its original slipcover.

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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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lovebenton0

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Jumping in here very late on this thread.

Total count right now is 24.

On order:

Cotton Country Collection by the ladies of Monroe LA 

Great recommendation for this from Mayhaw Man and I ordered it for the turkey roasting method he was describing, among other good foods. It will, of course, arrive the day after Thanksgiving. :laugh:

Oooops! This one actually arrived ahead of schedule, the day before Thanksgiving and forgot to post it. So you can add this one now.

Judith Love

North of the 30th parallel

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vogelap

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I've got over 100 at this point.

"No better bookends than two walls..."

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heyjude

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Though I don't have room for all my books, I continue to add new ones. The latest are by 3 chef/authors we hosted for Cooks and Books Dinners; Andrea Immer's newest about matching wine with foods, Michael Lomonaco's Nightly Specials and Joyce Goldstein's Italian Slow and Savory. All are keepers.

Judy Amster

Cookbook Specialist and Consultant

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Add another three for me. I couldn't resist when ordering gifts. "Oh! I want one of those, too."

Linda LaRose aka "fifi"

"Having spent most of my life searching for truth in the excitement of science, I am now in search of the perfectly seared foie gras without any sweet glop." Linda LaRose

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bloviatrix

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The first night of Chanukah brought me the Bouchon cookbook.

"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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chefsteban

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:blink: OK Maggie...I've added 15 more cookbooks since I last wrote to you....all are on Mexican cuisine...including a very clean copy of a 1939 cookbook "Las Cocinas" I found in a used bookstore in Mexico.

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we grow old because we stop playing"

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