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

Marlene

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andiesenji

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Another batch newly acquired.

Cookbook collection received 10/10/06

Pickles and Preserves - Marion Brown MCMLV

Omelets, Crepes, and other Recipes - Rudolph Stanish 1970

Great British Cooking: A Well Kept Secret - Jane Garmey 1981

Soft Cheese Craft and other Recipes for the Aspiring dairymaid - Mary Ann Pike 1982

Mama Weiss Favorite Recipes - Mama Weiss, KHJ-TV Los Angeles, 1953

(First female television cooking show, Los Angeles, late ‘40s to mid ‘50s.)

Signed

Good Fare and Cheer of Old England - Joan Parry Dutton 1960

Condiments - Kathy Gunst 1984

Ice Cream Cookbook - Earl Goldman 1970

The Shaker Cookboos - Caroline B. Piercy 1953

Crepes Cook Book, Better Homes & Gardens 1976

McCall’s Cookie Collection 1965

Ideals From Mama’s Honey Jar Cookbook - Catharine P. Smith MCMLXXVIII

The Everlasting Pleasure - Kathleen Ann Smallzried

- - - The rich and savory story of American cooks, kitchens and cookery from 1565 to the year 2000. (Printed in 1956)

Eggs I Have Known - Corinne Griffith 1955 (1st ed, signed)

Gourmet Preserves Chez Madelaine - Madelaine Bullwinkel 1984

Feast of Santa Fe - Huntley Dent 1985

Early American Herb Recipes - Alice Cooke Brown 1966

The Ultimate Rice Cooker Cookbook by Beth Hensperger - Julie Kaufmann 2002

"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

 

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andiesenji

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Also for removing odors from books, (tobacco, cooking odors, etc.), try interleaving some of the unscented dryer sheets between some of the pages, using about 6 in a regular sized book.

You can also, for mildewed books and magazines, if you have a vacuum sealer, vacuum seal the book in a bag and put it in the freezer for 72 hours, remove from the plastic bag as soon as you take it out of the freezer. Place in a warm dry place and treat with baking soda.

"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

 

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+3 more...

Everybody Eats Well in Belgium by Ruth Van Waerebeek for some very good waffle recipes and much more,

The San Francisco Ferry Plaza Farmer's Market Cookbook: A Comprehensive Guide to Impeccable Produce Plus Seasonal Recipes by Peggy Knickerbocker & Christopher Hirsheimer, and...

Anybody Can Cook by Gwen French... a nostalgia buy. My oldest sister has the original, very worn and yellowed copy that my mother used when we were growing up... Missing its cover, a few index pages and with all of her very neatly written comments and notations, it was the very first cookbook I ever made anything from and I thought I would get my own copy. It won't be the same but I am looking forward to trying some of the recipes again.

N.

"The main thing to remember about Italian food is that when you put your groceries in the car, the quality of your dinner has already been decided." – Mario Batali
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If anyone is interested in Elizabeth David's English Bread and Yeast Cookery, Janet Jarvits has the 1st American edition at an excellent price. In this condition they are rarely less than 75.00, often more.

See the book!

I have purchased many books from Janet. She is dedicated to providing excellent service. Each book is individually wrapped in paper and in bubble wrap.

Oh yes, I added another one.

Don't Give Up The Game : The Sportswoman's Cookbook - Carol Swanson-Estefan

Signed, 1st edition hardback, fine, dust jacket fine.

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"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

 

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The short answer is 40 years. The long is that my mother had 2 cookbooks and my grandmother none and I had never really looked at one until I left home. My then boyfriend (now husband of 39+ years) was sent off by his mother with the paperback James Beard Cookbook. I still have it. Thousands more have joined it in various ways. We lived for a couple years right across the street from The Strand and I worked at Powell's in Portland. Fabulous discounts. Now, of course, I work for Kim Rickett's Book Events doing the Cooks and Books Visiting Chef Series which is incredibly fun and I end up with signed copies of books by the best of the best. Cookbook authors are nice people. I will wait until November for my copy of Dorie Greenspan's latest when we hold her event at Seattle's much-loved Macrina Bakery. The obsession has never let up and my kids have caught it a bit.

Judy-

It is nice to see you in eGullet. I just discovered Kim Rickett's Book Event's a few days ago. I signed up for the Andrew Dorenburg and Karen Page dinner at the Dahlia Lounge- exciting stuff!

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Another shipment arrived:

Onions Without Tears - Jean Bothwell: 1950

A Salute to Onions - Oscar A. Mendelsohn: 1966

The Winter Kitchen (Mrs. Appleyard's of Course) - Louise Andrews Kent and Elizabeth Kent Gay: 1962 second printing.

Convivial Dickens The Drinks of Dickens & His Times - Edward Hewett & W. F. Axton: 1983

"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

 

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I just received 2 boxes of used books I bought when I was in NYC the week before last. So, I have 28 new (old) books to love including everything from Linda McCartney's Home Cooking, Tropical Drinks, 3 Cook's Illustrated Annuals, Miriam's Kitchen and The Hot Dog Companion. And from last night's Cooks and Books event Danny Meyer's Setting the Table.

Judy Amster

Cookbook Specialist and Consultant

amsterjudy@gmail.com

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Been watching this thread since joining but have never gotten around to doing a reasonable estimate of my cookbook numbers. Today.....I did. Had some time while doing laundry (not far from the kitchen). Counted 110!!! BUT, thanks to eGullet and all of the assorted recommendations, have 5 more on the way (had a weak Amazon.com moment). Not quite as close to what some of YOUR collections are BUT I do understand how the collections can just grow and grow!

Just got a new contract with a huge raise......now where do I spend that money?

Donna

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Been watching this thread since joining but have never gotten around to doing a reasonable estimate of my cookbook numbers.  Today.....I did.  Had some time while doing laundry (not far from the kitchen).  Counted 110!!!  BUT, thanks to eGullet and all of the assorted recommendations, have 5 more on the way (had a weak Amazon.com moment).  Not quite as close to what some of YOUR collections are BUT I do understand how the collections can just grow and grow! 

Just got a new contract with a huge raise......now where do I spend that money?

Congratulations! Amazon, Betsy's or E-Bay are always good ideas! :raz:

"Commit random acts of senseless kindness"

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4 more for me

The French Laundry

'Braise by Daniel Boulod

and 2 of Sara Mouton's Favourite recipes and Weekday Meals

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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It's been so long since I've updated my acquisitions here, I can't remember what all I've gotten. But between review copies, books for research and just things I wanted, it's at least 10 more. The Good Cook Club had a deal -- any books in the catalog for $10 and free shipping. So I got Tapas by Jose Andres, James Peterson's Duck Cookbook, Tartine, and The Improvisational Cook.

Janet A. Zimmerman, aka "JAZ"
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Author, The Healthy Pressure Cooker Cookbook,  Instant Pot Obsession, and The Ultimate Instant Pot Cookbook for Two

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I just added two more, just for fun:

The Peanut Cookbook by Dorothy C. Frank (cover cartoon by Edward Gorey) 1976

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The Lord Peter Wimsey Cookbook by Elizabeth Bond Ryan and William J. Eakins 1981

"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

 

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Add another 11 for me!

Just recently acquired:

• Cooking for Comfort

• A Real American Breakfast

• Baking with Julia

• Two Paula Deen books

• At Home with Magnolia

• Barefoot Contessa at Home

• Easy Entertaining

• Simple Italian Sandwiches

• The Good Home Cookbook

• Taste of Home

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I try to keep my cookbook collection under 300 books (not counting reference, food history, food literature et al). I give many away and only keep the ones that I know I will go back to for something or other.

This past year, only three new ones have made the cut to join the shelves of fame ( :raz: ):

Washoku

Hot Sour Salty Sweet

And one unexpected find that I am very impressed with, printed in 2002, Real Stew by Clifford Wright. Best collection of stews et al that I've ever seen. I'm blissed out by it. I want to eat the book itself, hoping to swallow all it contains. :biggrin:

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Last week brought 2 more for me (due to technical difficulties with certain online stores I'm expecting duplicates of both of them to arrive within a few days - but only count them once - I think my sister may benefit from this incident.)

Baking: From My Home to Yours, Dorie Greenspan

The Jewish Kitchen, Clarissa Hyman

I'm really looking forward to getting into both of these.

Pam Reiss aka "Pam R"

Author: Soup - A Kosher Collection - Passover - A Kosher Collection - Pam's Cookie Collection - Blog - Demos - Pam's Kitchen FB 

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From a library sale:

Riso: Undiscovered Rice Dishes of Northern Italy, by Gioietta Vitale

Any cookbook that has a recipe for risotto with porcinis, anchovies, and chicken livers is OK by me.

"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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Darn that Costco!

Today I picked up:

The Canadian Cookbook, History, Folklore & Recipes with a Twist (by Jennifer Ogle)

Includes recipes for bannock, Nanaimo bars, butter tarts, Quebec sugar pie, wild rice pilaf and yam latkes. Oh Canada! :laugh:

Pam Reiss aka "Pam R"

Author: Soup - A Kosher Collection - Passover - A Kosher Collection - Pam's Cookie Collection - Blog - Demos - Pam's Kitchen FB 

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Add these 11:

Potager by Georgeanne Brennan 1992

Danish Home Baking by Karen Berg 1980

Aromas and Flavors of Past and Present Alice B. Toklas 1996 reprint of the 1958 original

Sofra Cookbook by Huseyin Ozer (Modern Turkish & Middle Eastern Cookery) 1998

Wazwaan, Traditional Kashmiri Cuisine Secret Recipes from Waza Repertoire 2001

Wraps, Rolls & Parcels by Jenni Fleetwood 2002

The Cake Club by Susie Quick 2004

Fearless Baking by Elinor Klivans 2001

John Hadamuscin's Down Home 1993

The Fragrant Chile by Michael Bailes 1999

Tea & Sympathy by Anita Naughton with 60 recipes by Nicola Perry 2002

"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

 

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Add another one, I FINALLY found a copy of The Best Recipes From the Backs etc. but it's not the edition I'd originally had, I don't think :angry: Oh, well, I still love it! :laugh:

"Commit random acts of senseless kindness"

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OK, I said I wouldn't do it, but somehow five more books are now chez Alex:

What to Drink with What You Eat

Italian Slow and Savory

A Mediterranean Feast

Metiterranean Vegetables

Real Stew

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"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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Three more for me (slap my fingers; I'm outta work and DON'T need to be spending the money! :rolleyes: ) The Recipe Hall of Fame Cookbook and Vol. 2 of the same and the Southern Living Annual 2006.

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