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

[heyjude]

Last night was the members only part of the fall Seattle Friends of the Library sale. There is a 25 book limit so I spent $64 and got 25 books. I certainly could've found more, but I was very happy with my haul which covered all the bases from the Nordic Ware Bundt Cake Cookbook to Blanc Vite by Raymond Blanc.

[duckduck]

I counted 92 last night but I know there is more because I didn't see my 1912 tin cover Pillsbury that I picked up at a yard sale for $2. I'm missing a box of old ones that are probably got stuffed in the back of a closet. There's more, I'm sure but the count still makes me feel like an amatuer next to some of the folks here.

[andiesenji]

During the past several months I have added several cookbooks to my collection.

The Cat Who... Cookbook by Julie Murphy & Sally Abney Stempinski (Updated version)

The Summer Cookbook and Casserole Magic by Lousene Rousseau Brunner

The Dlectable Past by Esther B. Aresty

History of Bread by John Ashton (1st ed - 1904)

Here's How-a Journey Through Good Food by Helen Pendelton Rockwell

Puddings and Dainty Desserts by Thomas Murrey

The Sebastiani Family Cookbook by Sylvia Sebastiani

Grandma Rose's Book of Sinfully Delicious Cakes, Cookies, Pies, Cheese Cakes, Cake Rolls and Pastries by Rose Naftalin

Retro Desserts by Dennis Gottlieve and Wayne Brachman

Theatre In The Kitchen - A Cookboox by Nesta Morriss and the Committee of Bastion Theatre

and

New Wrinkles in Thyme, A Basenji Fanciers' Cookbook (Prepared by the Bay State Basenji Club as a fundraising project for Basenji Health Research and the BCOA National Specialty Fund.

Not a cookbook but I did buy and just finished Anthony Bourdain's "Bone In The Throat" a murder mystery.

[natasha1270]

+3

Tartine by Elisabeth Prueitt and Chad Robertson

Baking: From My Home to Yours by Dorie Greenspan

Happy in the Kitchen: The Craft of Cooking, the Art of Eating by Michel Richard

...and a few more I'll have to add later.

enjoy!

N.

[maggiethecat]

121,440.

[Dave Hatfield]

I've been following this thread with great interest & enjoying the posts.

You can add 79 from us. Not too impressive a total, but it does include a complete set of the original Time/ Life series and Vincent Price's book.

The thread has inspired (if that's the word) me to start a new thread on how many links to cooking & food sites stored on our computer(s)? I know I have more than a few.

Forgive me if this has been done before, but I couldn't find any similar thread when I searched.

Lets see how we do!

[bluechefk]

another 9 for me, please - i've been on a buying binge.

[heyjude]

A special gift for me. Ruth Reichl's MMMMM a Feastiary and several used including Julie and Julia, 2 by Colin Cowie and Occident/King Midas Collector's Bake Book. This is in a ring binder with a fold back cover that acts as an easel. There is no publishing date. Does anyone know when this came out? And a couple more, so 7 for me.

[laurelm]

Add another oner for me - Sharing the table- Garland's Lodge.

[The Old Foodie]

Six more for me:

New-old ones

Cassells’ Dictionary of Cookery, the 1910 edition. I have the 1870’s edition and have to say that it is a much prettier book than this “new” one, which also stinks of tobacco smoke. Anyone got any ideas how to de-smell it?

Practical Cookery, Cookery under Rationing. 1946

Good Housekeeping’s Book of Menus, Recipes, and Household Discoveries, 1925.

Great Cooks and their Recipes by Anne Willan, a gift from my New Zealand blogging friend Barbara from <a href="http://winosandfoodies.typepad.com/my_weblog/ ">Winos and Foodies</a> when she was here on a visit.

New-new ones

Truffles, Ultimate Luxury, Everyday Pleasure by Rosario Safina and Judith Sutton. Got a bargain there, just over AUD$7 for a brand new copy (sale item plus my sister’s discount as she runs the store). All I need now is some truffles ….

Real Food, by Nina Planck.

[C. sapidus]

72 cookbooks here. I counted Joy of Cooking (paperback) only once, even though it has long since divided into two half-books. Additions during the past six months:

Cradle of Flavor: Home Cooking from the Spice Islands of Indonesia, Singapore, and Malaysia by James Oseland

Pleasures of the Vietnamese Table by Mai Pham

Chesapeake Bay Cooking by John Shields

Killer Cocktails by Dave Wondrich (Splificator)

Cocinia de la Familia by Marilyn Tausend

Land of Plenty by Fuchsia Dunlop (fiore)

[judiu]

Cassells’ Dictionary of Cookery, the 1910 edition. I have the 1870’s edition and have to say that it is a much prettier book than this “new” one, which also stinks of tobacco smoke. Anyone got any ideas how to de-smell it?

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Do you have a product called "Febreeze"? It's a spray on deodorizer we have here in the States. It might work, if the paper's in good enough shape, but have you considered dusting the entire book with baking soda and setting it out in the sun for a while? Baking soda is a pretty good deodorizer itself; just be sure to shake it off the pages outside the house, or vacuum it up with a Dustbuster. HTH!

[Rebecca263]

I am thinking of liquidating most of my collection of books. We're talking over 32,000 books, only a few thousand are cook books, though. I'll let you know the numbers, if it happens.

[The Old Foodie]

Cassells’ Dictionary of Cookery, the 1910 edition. I have the 1870’s edition and have to say that it is a much prettier book than this “new” one, which also stinks of tobacco smoke. Anyone got any ideas how to de-smell it?

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Do you have a product called "Febreeze"? It's a spray on deodorizer we have here in the States. It might work, if the paper's in good enough shape, but have you considered dusting the entire book with baking soda and setting it out in the sun for a while? Baking soda is a pretty good deodorizer itself; just be sure to shake it off the pages outside the house, or vacuum it up with a Dustbuster. HTH!

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Thanks Judiu - we do have "Febreeze" here, although I dont have any in the house at present. I would never have thought of trying it! I'll try the baking soda today - it is perfect Spring weather here at present, so outside will be beautiful. It is a big heavy book (the paper itself is in good shape, although the cover is a bit battered), so I might need to pages in batches. I'll let you know how it goes.

[Marlene]

7 more, the names don't all come to mind right now except for the two right in front of me, Baking from My Home to Yours by Dorie Greenspan and the Bon Appetit Cookbook

Edited October 1, 2006 by Marlene (log)

[annachan]

Add another 10 for me....got some used ones the last couple of weeks and picked up a copy of Tartine today. It's $21.95 at Costco, just couldn't resist....

[ruthcooks]

Three more for me...Dorie Greenspan's new one, a slip of a book my daughter brought home to me after her cabin vacation at Mackinaw, and the Bush family cookbook.

After the bad press on the latter, I had to check it out, especially for $6. Not as bad as all that, about the same food that most of Americans eat, I venture. Biggest question, why are only three kinds of pie allowed in the George/Barbara Bush household? Huh? Evidently there were only two and the author got called down when he served the third. OK, I won't keep you in suspense, they are Blueberry, Pecan and Chocolate Pecan.

[andiesenji]

13 more

Just purchased several "vintage" or interesting cookbooks:

Phillsbury 9th Grand National Bake-Off 1957 cookbook

Cookie Cookery Cookbook, 1969

Cookie Originale Cookbook by Marilou Dyer, 1970

25th Anniversary Steam Threshers Auxillary Cookbook, 1979

Favorite Recipes from the United Nations Cookbook 1959

Wild Game Cookbook by Martin Rywell, 1966

Homestead Bread Book of Mill Valley, California 1973

Knox Gelatin On Camera Cookbook 1962

Good Cooking Made Easy With Spry 1942

Nebraska Pioneer Cookbook 1974

Ideals Cookie Cookbook 1977

Gifts From The Kitchen Candy Cookbook by Mildred Brand

Biscuits and Scones 1988 (to replace one leant to someone who subsequently lost it)

Edited October 1, 2006 by andiesenji (log)

[andiesenji]

I forgot a couple:

The Red Hat Society Cookbook, Recipes by members of the Red Hat Society

Magic Beans by Patti Bazel Geil

The Daily Bean by Suzanne Caciola White

[Peter Green]

Hmmm.....

Around 90....but should we count also books about food that have the odd recipe in them (like Steingarten?), and what about the magazines that we lift recipes from?

And, of course, the internet itself.

It's getting hard to keep track of all this.

[Toliver]

Cassells’ Dictionary of Cookery, the 1910 edition. I have the 1870’s edition and have to say that it is a much prettier book than this “new” one, which also stinks of tobacco smoke. Anyone got any ideas how to de-smell it?

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It's not an immediate process, but takes time.

I bought a cookbook through an online auction that reeked of cigarette smoke. After doing research online, I combined some of the methods I found.

I took a small plastic garbage bag (the thick durable plastic not the thin recyclable kind), poured in a large amount of kitty litter and also a bunch (8 to 10 pages) of crumpled up newspapers. I put the book on top of the newspapers and tied the bag shut. Once a month I'd check the book to smell it and see if it was any better. This book was a large for-the-coffee table-type book and took about 9 months (I dumped the old kitty litter and put in some new after 4 months) for the smell to go away.

At least now I don't get a contact high from just touching the cookbook.

[The Old Foodie]

Cassells’ Dictionary of Cookery, the 1910 edition. I have the 1870’s edition and have to say that it is a much prettier book than this “new” one, which also stinks of tobacco smoke. Anyone got any ideas how to de-smell it?

←

It's not an immediate process, but takes time.

I bought a cookbook through an online auction that reeked of cigarette smoke. After doing research online, I combined some of the methods I found.

I took a small plastic garbage bag (the thick durable plastic not the thin recyclable kind), poured in a large amount of kitty litter and also a bunch (8 to 10 pages) of crumpled up newspapers. I put the book on top of the newspapers and tied the bag shut. Once a month I'd check the book to smell it and see if it was any better. This book was a large for-the-coffee table-type book and took about 9 months (I dumped the old kitty litter and put in some new after 4 months) for the smell to go away.

At least now I don't get a contact high from just touching the cookbook.

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Thanks Toliver, I will definitely try this method. The book is currently undergoing the baking soda treatment suggested by judiu, but the kitty litter method sounds like a good way to tackle all pages at once. It is a thick heavy book.

[SuzySushi]

Add one for me: Our local Costco has begun carrying the latest revised editions of the Wei-Chuan cookbook series from Taiwan. I picked up one I didn't already have, Chinese Cooking for Beginners. Only Wei-Chuan could consider made-from-scratch mooncakes a beginner's level recipe!

[laurelm]

Thanks Toliver, I will definitely try this method. The book is currently undergoing the baking soda treatment suggested by judiu, but the kitty litter method sounds like a good way to tackle all pages at once. It is a thick heavy book.

Charcoal bits or cedar chips work very well too, place in closed bag with book, leave for a few days until smell is gone.

[maggiethecat]

121,741. Good work!

Peter Green: Books about food count, big time, but mags don't.