Cookbooks, do you use them?

[JoMama]

A world without cookbooks is like a day without sunshine!

Yes ... I use cookbooks ... and with each one I add so many new & wonderful recipes to my culinary stash.

JoMama

 

[expatgirl]

Me, too, I have about 5-6 that are favs.........and they look it by the stained appearances of them and how 2 are falling apart but I do love to collect them.........

 

[tanya]

I have maybe 15 tops? Most of the recipes are very similar and I almost never cook from them but god do I love reading them Its so fun.
I doubt I could read a cookbook without pictures though, I quite enjoy the food porn xD

 

[dave the baker]

I have 50 or 60 or so and always refer back to them; also use the web when searching for ideas. Also doing a compilation of family recipes that I may (or may not) publish some day. It's a work in progress that needs a lot more progress.

 

[oatmealkookie1]

Yes I buy cook books and yes if its a good recipe I will start out using it and try to improve the recipe ..

 

[chilichip]

cookbooks

i'm with on collecting cookbook!!! love them ,so here the question what is the oldest cookbook you have and what is the weirdest way to cook or make something that is now so easy to prepare now. it's amazing how different it all is. I need more coffeeHappy Valentine to everybody!!

 

[expatgirl]

I hate it when my favorites go out of publishing (like the 1972 Joy of Cooking paperback) at least I inherited my mother-in-law's........

 

[cookinghomefood]

Yes, I use them. I mostly do when trying out a new recipe.

 

[cookinghomefood]

I buy them all the time. There are some recipes that I need more illustrations for - in those cases, I get cook books. Also, they are able to list other things more than recipes - they can give nutritional information.

 

[Wyogal]

I just started to compile a bibliography of my cookbooks. I am at 67... and counting. I tend to look through them, read them, then create menus/meals. Sometimes I follow a recipe, more so with baking. I have one from 1915, others from the 20's, through current time. I have a collection of those "church' cookbooks, compiled by all sorts of groups, some quite old.

 

[msmofet]

i have well over a hundred cookbooks, those box collections IE great american recipes, mccall's binder's, those thin mccall's book collection, and various other recipe cards and etc. i use them more for ideas and guidelines. i can never follow a recipe without editing it to my tastes.

 

[Jikoni]

I have lots of cookbooks, and still buy more. I read them as I would novels which others find very strange!

 

[msmofet]

I have lots of cookbooks, and still buy more. I read them as I would novels which others find very strange!

yes i do also and know the feeling about people thinking it's strange. but i read them as research material more than to follow. and when i serve something they like i say i guess it was a good thing i read that book!!

 

[Nils Hoyum]

I read cookbooks front to back. But I only buy a few. I read a lot of Alton's recipes and I read everything Anthony writes. I also enjoy the classics by Pepin and Julia. I also like reading Ferran Adria's books.

 

[msmofet]

I read cookbooks front to back. But I only buy a few. I read a lot of Alton's recipes and I read everything Anthony writes. I also enjoy the classics by Pepin and Julia. I also like reading Ferran Adria's books.

i loved watching the Jacquie and Julia specials. she snuck in butter behind his back!! i wonder if paula watched julia (when she was a child) and if paula ever met julia?

 

[JoZee]

I buy the odd one. One of my favourites is by Lorna Sass, she's a friend of a friend and a writes cook books, love her stuff.

 

[expatgirl]

I have an "eclectic genre" of cookbooks.........from good, food-stianed, to my mother-in-law's that are held together by rubberbands and whom I'm so eternally grateful for all her kind, loving advice and assistance .......etc........to just plain crazy. and not so great.......I love the recipe that advises that the cook soak the chicken in some wine and then drink the rest of it while it's simmering. Never mind the title..............I think it's "Sous With the Chef"................or Chef With the Sous............nevermind........

 

[Callisto in NC]

Wow, I only have like 7 so I'm in the minority but I get magazines up the ying yang and keep the recipes I think are good. I'm thinking it's time to hit Good Will and see if they have any good cookbooks since I'm so behind.

 

[luvs]

i'm learning to use cookbooks & recipes. i'm not to great at recipes. i'm learning to like them, though.

 

[Scotch]

I buy the odd one. One of my favourites is by Lorna Sass, she's a friend of a friend and a writes cook books, love her stuff.

I agree. She writes the best cookbooks for pressure cookers.