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Oh, oh, lucky me....under the tree yesterday, third edition of The Joy of Cooking, printed 1936....what a find!

Dave Valentin

Retired Explosive Detection K9 Handler

"So, what if we've got it all backwards?" asks my son.

"Got what backwards?" I ask.

"What if chicken tastes like rattlesnake?" My son, the Einstein of the family.

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Seven more:

Mangoes & Curry Leaves

The New Spanish Table

Cooking in SW France

Tapas (Jose Andres)

Charcuterie

Best Recipes in the World

Now to find the time to read & use them.

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15 new from Jessica's Biscuit for me, but a couple went to mamster for his library. JB was great to deal with. They immediately replaced a couple that came damaged. New titles include Hidden Kitchens, Cupcakes by Eleanor Klivens, the reprint of the Nancy Drew CB, Molto Italiano, ChocolateChocolate, Vegetable Love by Barbara Kafka, Silver Spoon and Best American Recipes 2005-2006 which provided the Mimosa recipe for yesterday morning's family party.

Judy Amster

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I can add about 25 more through ebay and the book club and I have another 6 coming in the mail, so that's another 31 to add to the list.

Dan Walker

Chef/Owner

Weczeria Restaurant

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Add two for me! I got Marcella Hazan's Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking and The French Laundry Cookbook for Christmas! (From Babbo Natale and Pere Noel, respectively! :wink:)

"We had dry martinis; great wing-shaped glasses of perfumed fire, tangy as the early morning air." - Elaine Dundy, The Dud Avocado

Queenie Takes Manhattan

eG Foodblogs: 2006 - 2007

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Oh, oh, lucky me....under the tree yesterday, third edition of The Joy of Cooking, printed 1936....what a find!

What a great package under the tree! I love old editions-- I have a 1927 Fanny Farmer, with 27 course sample menus!

That's 102, 413, including my two mainstream and fascinating Christmas gifts: The Martha Stewart Baking Handbook ---worth it for many reasons, but mostly for the keen Parker House Roll formation, and Charcuterie, which I haven't had time to crack, but I have my Jane Grigson handy for a side-by-side.

Margaret McArthur

"Take it easy, but take it."

Studs Terkel

1912-2008

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I have several to add to this list:

The Cooks book

The Silver Spoon

Molto Italiano

Better homes and gardens slow cooker recipes

3 pack from WS - New York, San Francisco and New Orleans

The Ultimate Rice cooker cookbook

The Food Lovers companion (ok, maybe not a cookbook by defination)

Tomorrow, my copy of Martha Stewart's Baking Handbook should arrive.

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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102,241. Nice haul, Marlene. I included "The Food Lover's Companion" in my count, so you should too.

Reminder: books about food history, food geography, food biography, food science, food art all count. The binder with the printouts from the eGRA, epicurious and your Granny don't.

Margaret McArthur

"Take it easy, but take it."

Studs Terkel

1912-2008

A sensational tennis blog from freakyfrites

margaretmcarthur.com

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oops. I forgot this one. Anne Willan, A Cook's book of Quick Fixes.

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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I got my copy of Charcuterie the other day (in the same package as The Office DVD box, immaterial here IknowIknowIknow). Materially, also the 1st two Ruth Reichl autobio volumes recently. So, three new.

Priscilla

Writer, cook, & c. ●  Twitter

 

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I'm going to be conservative and say 75 cookbooks. But I'm only 28...still young with many years to buy more. :cool:

"Vegetarians are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit." -- Anthony Bourdain

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I received 3 cookbooks over Chanukah:

The Last Course by Claudia Flemming. Over the past few years I've incorporated a number of her desserts into my repetoire. Now, I get to discover more.

Vegetable Love by Barbara Kafka

The Spicy Food Lovers Bible by DeWitt and Gerlach

"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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We're kicking off the New Year with 102,324. May our cookbooks lead us to an adventuresome 2006 in the kitchen, or a nice stack of reading on the nightstand, coffeetable, living room floor, passenger seat of the car ...

Margaret McArthur

"Take it easy, but take it."

Studs Terkel

1912-2008

A sensational tennis blog from freakyfrites

margaretmcarthur.com

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Off-topic: I can't tell you all how happy I am to have stumbled across this site!! You guys are my people!!

I currently have 673 cookbooks....my most recent additions are:

Poet of the Appetites: The Lives and Loves of M.F.K. Fisher, by Joan Reardon

Hungering for America: Italian, Irish, & Jewish Foodways in the Age of Migration, by Hasia R. Diner

White Trash Cooking II, by Ernest Matthew Mickler

Surreal Gourmet Bites, by Bob Blumer

And for Christmas, my sweetie got me Norman Douglas's Venus in the Kitchen.

"She would of been a good woman," The Misfit said, "if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life."

--Flannery O'Connor, "A Good Man is Hard to Find"

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The Ultimate Rice cooker cookbook

Trying to get that monkey off your back, eh, Marlene? :wink:

Seven more in our house holiday haul:

  • Ruhlman and Polcyn's absolutely fantastic Charcuterie;
    three Alford and Duguid books: Home Baking, Seductions of Rice, and Mangoes and Curry Leaves;
    Wolfert's new Cooking of Southwest France;
    Nathan's New American Cooking;
    Hamelman's Bread.

Chris Amirault

eG Ethics Signatory

Sir Luscious got gator belts and patty melts

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My collection is limited to the fact I'm a tight wad so I've only got around 30 ish (but they're carefully chosen!)

New in the past week are:

Simon Hopkinson's Roast Chicken and Other Stories - I heard it was a classic so thought I'd better get it, and they're not wrong.

The Kitchen Diaries by Nigel Slater - Gotta love Nigel and his approach to cookery, if he wants chips and baked beans then he has 'em

Gastronaut by Stefan Gates - so funny I almost spat my lunch out reading it at work today (especially his essay on ahem, 'windy' food).

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Hungering for America: Italian, Irish, & Jewish Foodways in the Age of Migration, by Hasia R. Diner

!!! Where o where was such a book back when I was doing all that research for all those godforsaken American Studies papers. Possibly a twinkle in the author's eye at the time, I suppose.

I forgot two others which arrived mysteriously in the mail the other week from a glamorous and erudite Canadian Midwestern correspondent: A Meal Observed by Andrew Todhunter, and Fagioli: The Bean Cuisine of Italy by Judith Barrett.

Priscilla

Writer, cook, & c. ●  Twitter

 

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Add two. James Beard's American Cookery (my reason was stated as "I need this for the game recipes" -- ha!) and a second copy of Barbara Tropp's Modern Art of Chinene Cooking. The latter is the original hard-cover edition, in pristine condition (including the dust cover). I just felt so sad that this copy of a masterpiece was languishing on a shelf at Half Price Books, and had been languishing for so long that it was down to $3.98. I wonder how many people passed up this treasure in favor of a flashier book?

Susan Fahning aka "snowangel"
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Add five for Christmas--unfortunately mostly flash in the pan stuff from friends, nice pix, lots of fluff....

But OMG--total is over 200, must thin, must thin..... It seemed like such a harmless and rewarding obsession at the beginning..... :blink:

Pretty soon I'll have to move :biggrin:

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One more: Sweet Gratitude, by Judith Sutton. Despite the treacle-y subtitle -- "bake a thank-you for the really important people in your life" -- and the cutesy illustrations, the unfussy recipes look like just the thing for this unpracticed baker.

"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

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Just picked up the River Cottage Cook Book by Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall for less than half price (bonus!). So there's another one....

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Scored a three *new* cookbooks at a library sale today ($6 total!):

Paul Prudhomme's Louisiana Kitchen

L.L. Bean Book of New New England Cookery

and

Favorite Fruitcakes: Recipes, Legends and Lore from the World's Best Cooks and Eaters (Moira Hodgson)

The last looks particularly interesting; of course I though of egullet's andiesenji when I bought it!

The other reason I was drawn to it was after reading Truman Capote's "A Christmas Memory" recently. It is a wonderful short story about all the preparation, anticipation and gratification involved in making a fruitcake in a small Southern town in the 30's.

"Under the dusty almond trees, ... stalls were set up which sold banana liquor, rolls, blood puddings, chopped fried meat, meat pies, sausage, yucca breads, crullers, buns, corn breads, puff pastes, longanizas, tripes, coconut nougats, rum toddies, along with all sorts of trifles, gewgaws, trinkets, and knickknacks, and cockfights and lottery tickets."

-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 1962 "Big Mama's Funeral"

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