Cookbooks – How Many Do You Own? (Part 4)

[tsquare]

Another one for me - a birthday gift last month. Greg Atkinson's "Entertaining in the Northwest Style." Now I need a barn, a cabin, or a boat to hold a party.

[bloviatrix]

Two more for me:

Foster's Market Cookbook (I love the one that came out last year so I had to buy the first one)

Jewish Cooking for All Seasons

[maggiethecat]

120, 224.

[Stacey L]

This thread makes me feel so much better. I *only* have 228, plus 11 on the way (don't tell my roommate ) for 239.

[Kerry Beal]

Add 'Bruce Aidell's Complete Book of Pork' a signed copy no less. $5 at my clearance bookstore.

Edited September 7, 2006 by Kerry Beal (log)

[hosinmigs]

hum....just starting out, I guess. I'd say 30.

[Pam R]

3 more for me - generic regional cookbooks from Costco (I can't say no to $3.97/book). Waiting for some 'goodies' from amazon. Must... kick... cookbook ........ habit.

[RDCollins]

I don't have them catalogued, but I count about 750 cookbooks in our collection. That includes about 450 hardbacks, some of which are quite rare. Nearly all are American, and the collection focuses on mid-20th century cookbooks.

Click here for one photo of the books.

Click here for another photo of the cookbooks.

Edited September 11, 2006 by RDCollins (log)

[maggiethecat]

121,247.

[heyjude]

10 new ones just arrived from Jessica's Biscuit. They are so good to me ( and I guess they consider me good to them). They are mostly baking and smoking titles including Williams-Sonoma Mastering: Cakes, which I have yet to do.

[Junior]

I think I got the same generic ones from Costco as Pam, I too can not resist the 3.97 price tag and I have 3 from ebay and another one on the way.

[Pam R]

I think I got the same generic ones from Costco as Pam, I too can not resist the 3.97 price tag and I have 3 from ebay and another one on the way.

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Just think.. in the dead of winter we can still look at the food of Spain, Italy and Greece... it'll be just like we were there - not in the prairies under 10 feet of snow!

By the way - I've changed my mind. Must not kick cookbook habit. Everybody should buy as many cookbooks as possible.

[hjshorter]

I just preordered Michel Richard's Happy in the Kitchen.

A side note...we just moved and all of my cookbooks are in boxes. It's been sad having to do without them for 2-3 weeks, especially the ones that are old friends.

[Priscilla]

Heather, getting the books I use out and accessible is one of the biggest steps toward feeling at home after moving, for me. Good luck with that!

2 new to report: McGee's On Food and Cooking , and the elsewhere discussed Baking: From My Home to Yours by Dorie Greenspan

[bluechefk]

another 4 for me, please: my husband picked up a copy of 'baking: from my home to yours' for me at costco yesterday . i also replaced a copy of andrew maclachlan's 'tropical desserts' that someone borrowed from me & never returned. and i have 'mangoes & curry leaves' and 'the sweet life' on the way from the good cook club!

[memesuze]

Heather, getting the books I use out and accessible is one of the biggest steps toward feeling at home after moving, for me.  Good luck with that!

2 new to report:  McGee's On Food and Cooking , and the elsewhere discussed Baking: From My Home to Yours by Dorie Greenspan

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I also just moved and felt bereft until the cookbooks were unpacked and shelved - now I need to count them so I can add to this thread - I did some culling before the move and have a few to send on to folks that I decided not to keep, but that's another thread

[artisan02]

Heather, getting the books I use out and accessible is one of the biggest steps toward feeling at home after moving, for me.  Good luck with that!

2 new to report:  McGee's On Food and Cooking , and the elsewhere discussed Baking: From My Home to Yours by Dorie Greenspan

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I also just moved and felt bereft until the cookbooks were unpacked and shelved - now I need to count them so I can add to this thread - I did some culling before the move and have a few to send on to folks that I decided not to keep, but that's another thread

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I also just moved, and I am currently unpacking all my cookbooks. I had already added how many I thought I had, to this thread, but I will do an accurate count when I am done unpacking them all. Unpacking is slow however, as I find a favorite cookbook and sit down to look at it and oftentimes reread it. They are like my very old friends.

Christine

[Smithy]

3 more for me - generic regional cookbooks from Costco (I can't say no to $3.97/book).  Waiting for some 'goodies' from amazon.  Must... kick... cookbook ........  habit.

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Think of it as helping the economy.

I've been helping the economy myself, of late, but haven't received the latest shipment. Until I see which ones I'm keeping, I won't add to the count.

[heyjude]

Four from Half Price Books yesterday. Three dessert books and one my friend recommended highly called Real Life Cooking by Trish Deseine. It is subtitled Traditional European Recipes for Modern Day Life. The photographs (by Sylvain Thomas) are gorgeous.Recipes include everything from Boiled cake to Lamb Stew, "slightly burnt" to Pheasant with Foie Gras.

[snowangel]

Half Price Books was a goldmine yesterday. I only came away with one book, but it was a signed (by St. Julia) first edition of Mastering for $6.98.

A nice addition, especially since it's a book that I didn't own.

[srhcb]

Half Price Books was a goldmine yesterday.  I only came away with one book, but it was a signed (by St. Julia) first edition of Mastering for $6.98.

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I'll give you $13.96 for it!

SB (a nice profit?)

[coquus]

+7-2=+5

Added Pierre Frainey's Kitchen, Bittersweet by Alice Medrich, Great Sausage Recipes and Meat Curing, my friend from Savannah brought me Lady and Sons by Paula Deen as a gift, Professional Baking by Wayne Glissen, Cold Buffets, and picked up a short, bread pamphlet style book which I should count. I only paid retail for the Kutas book from the Sausage Maker in the Niagara Food Terminal. I gave up McGee's book and gave my Japanese Country Cookbook reluctantly back to my mother who is on a Japanese kick. I also gave up some old books that weren't food related to make room.

[The Old Foodie]

Three more historic ones for me. "Dumas on Food" translated by Alan and Jane Davidson (so if any of you are lusting after "Shark pie made from the stomachs of yound sharks", just let me know); "The Cookbook of Lady Tillipronie", and "Elinor Fettiplace's Receipt Book" (by Hilary Spurling) which has some wonderful Elizabethan recipes.

And two modern ones - Michel Roux's "Eggs", and another brought home for me by my husband who has recently been to Dublin, Ireland - "Roly's Bistro: the restaurant and its food" - must try the Kerry Pie with Roasted Parsnips very soon.

[edited because I had forgotten Roly's Bistro]

Edited September 14, 2006 by The Old Foodie (log)

[coquus]

I just got a foodie friend of my parents' collection that I'm sorry to say his family has no need for anymore. I'll let you know what's what when I sit down and sort it out. He was sort of famous in their circle for being really hard to please, but I thought he was always sort of funny about it because that's who he was, a boisterous food lovin' Italian. I'm really sad and happy at the same time, it's sad.

[Mikeb19]

I might not have the numbers some people have, but I've spent WAAAY too much on cookbooks in the last year. I've got 25 with another on the way.

Some of my favourites:

- Grand Livre de Cuisine by Ducasse

- ph10 by Pierre Hermé

- Emotions gourmandes by Girardet

- La Cuisine by Pierre Gagnaire and Hervé This

On the way is "L'encyclopédie culinaire du XXIème siècle" by Marc Veyrat, which cost 295 euros....