Cookbooks – How Many Do You Own? (Part 1)

[tsquare]

The New York Times Jewish Cookbook by Linda Amster(no relation),

Thanks - I keep meaning to ask.

[snowangel]

Thanks, heyjude, for listing what you got. I wish everyone would!

[bloviatrix]

The New York Times Jewish Cookbook by Linda Amster(no relation)....

Another one for me. I just bought this one as well.

[Dana]

I bought 5 this summer at antique/junk stores while on vacation. Also, just ordered the Zuni cafe cookbook, so add 6 more!!!

[maggiethecat]

Thanks, heyjude, for listing what you got.  I wish everyone would!

How true. This is a terrfic idea. It's severly inpractical to ask for a complete catalogue of everyone's Permamnent Collection, but naming new additions makes sense.

It adds to the vicarious thrill.

44,931.

[Chad]

Two more for me, both birthday presents. French Laundry cookbook and Robert St. John's "A Southern Palate." The boy can write! Great anecdotes between sections.

Chad

[hannahcooks]

37 at home. On the way from BOMC and thegoodcook.com are six more: Jacques Pepin Celebrates, Baking With Julia, The Penguin Companion to Food (not really a cookbook, though), Cooking At Home With the Culinary Institute of America, How to Cook Everything: The Basics and The Minimalist Entertains.

[maggiethecat]

44,976. Thanks, Chad and hannah.

And one for me: Joyce White's Brown Sugar.

44,977. By the way, if that figure is divided by the 6,000 odd current eGullet members, it works out to about 7 ookbooks apiece, one more than my sister-in-law owns. (I checked out her shelves on Thursday.)

Edited September 19, 2003 by maggiethecat (log)

[smowen3]

29. I have 29 cookbooks. I love them like the children I don't have.

[maggiethecat]

29. I have 29 cookbooks.

Welcome to eGulllet, smowen; your first post pushed us up over 45,000. In fact:

45, 005.

[rkolluri]

I have about 150 cookbooks. I thought I had a lot but from reading this thread, I think my collection barely qualifies as a starter collection.

I buy cookbooks and usually read them cover to cover like any other book. I figure I get my value for money if it is interesting/entertaining/educational/inspirational even if I never use a recipe from the book.

Need to buy more cookbooks...Need to buy more cookbooks...Need to buy more cookbooks...Need to buy more cookbooks...

RKolluri

[torakris]

smowen3

welcome to egullet!

Add 3 more for me!

Kentarou no kankoku shokudo by Kentarou Kobayashi (Korean cooking in Japanese)

Jacques Pepin complete techniques

Jacques Pepin simple and healthy cooking

(the last 2 should arrive today from Amazon Japan)

[torakris]

and welcome to RKolluri too!

[MatthewB]

Friday AM was one of my best cookbook buying days . . .

Swartz, Soup Suppers (pb)

Luongo, Simply Tuscan (hc)

Villas, Stews, Bogs & Burgoos (hc)

Gold, Recipes 1-2-3 (hc)

Del Conte, Gli Antipasti (hc)

Del Conte, I Dolci (hc)

Berry & Spieler, The New Cook (hc)

Tausend, Cocina de la Familia (hc)

Anderson, How to Cook without a Book (hc)

Herme & Greenspan, Desserts by Pierre Herme (hc)

Madison, Local Flavors (hc)

Total bill = $60

[maggiethecat]

Welcome to eGullet rKolluri. And don't worry 'bout a thing! Only at eGullet would 150 cookbooks count as a small collection.

Matthew: That is one heck of a score, my friend. Kris, you recidivist, you!

45,169. 8.55 miles.

[tsquare]

2 more for me - waited until the 3rd day of the library book sale - still managed to find a like new copy of Cuisine Minceur (will be surprised if I ever cook from it) from 1976, and a pretty little book "Espresso". Total cost: $0.87.5.

[maggiethecat]

Total cost: $0.87.5.

I'm impressed.

And add one more for me...the mailman just arrived.

The Good Cuisine, Francoise Bernard and Alain Ducasse. I've been a Bernard fan since a French girlfriend got me a copy of Les Recettes Facilesas a wedding present. I really need to find a copy of Les Recettes Faciles de Patisserie.

45,172.

[maggiethecat]

I'd forgotten about the For Sale Room at the library. I'll check it out this afternoon.

Edited September 22, 2003 by maggiethecat (log)

[Rachel Perlow]

Looking at my shelves, only about 30-40 total - but they include Escoffier, LaRousse, Bocuse, McGee, Keller, Peterson, Kamman, Child, CIA, David, Pepin, Soltner, Sokolov, Saulnier, Hazan, Dornenburg, Ruhlman...

In other words, if I never acquire another, I will die before tapping these out.

Just a reminder that Andrew Dornenburg and Karen Page are online for an eGullet Q&A right now.

[Alex]

Five new friends since my last post here:

Local Flavors (thanks, MatthewB!)

The Bagel Bible, 2nd ed (ditto)

Smoke & Spice (ditto)

The Bread Machine Magic Book of Helpful Hints (no hisses for the bread machine, please)

Biscuits, Spoonbread, & Sweet Potato Pie

I bought a copy of French Cooking in Ten Minutes through Amazon, but it arrived with water damage so I returned it.

Cooking With Pomaine and Jeremiah Tower Cooks are on "the list."

[heyjude]

I got 27 more at the Friends of the Library sale and gave only one to Matthew and Laurie. All were great deals, but the 1st edition Mary and Vincent Price for $5 was a thrill. I'll list the rest in a later post when I can see the spines. The new bookshelves will be built in a week. It will be so fun to arrange all 3500ish by my own quirky system.

[maggiethecat]

45, 204.

Alex, I wouldn't dream of making fun of anyone's cookbook titles (I blush at some of my own.)

Hey, Jude. I believe you are the record-holder on this thread. When you get a chance could you please tell us about your quirky method of cookbook organization? By topic? Date published? Color of spine?

And how long do you think it will take you to organize them all? New bookcases. Sigh. How lovely!

[bsan]

Maggie, add another one to the total. Over the summer, my mom picked up a Rachael Ray cookbook.

[maggiethecat]

45,205.

[snowangel]

Add three, all by Alice Waters, all autographed, and all from 1/2 price books: Fruit, Vegetables, Fanny at Chez Panisse.

I just made new bookshelves