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Executive Chef
nice, good choices, siegal. hey, they look like two cookbooks pf once had....
nice, good choices, siegal. hey, they look like two cookbooks pf once had....
Oh....if that is the 1932 edition, what a lovely book to have. It is the first cookbook that was written in a more "motherly" voice and one that didn't assume the only people cooking were women. There's an interesting paper on MUSE about gender and cookbooks and this edition is mention. What would I have to do to get in line to inherit it? As of sometime next week, PF will have one more cookbook (and it will be hard to hide it from Shrek).I still have my trusty old Good Housekeeping. It is falling apart everywhere. I have started to copy my favorite ones. I have the feeling that some of those loose pages are going to get lost.
Spike is going to look through his father belongings that are stored in a garage. He is is pretty sure his original (First printing) of the Joy of Cooking is there. When his father died, I let the kids have their pick of anything they wanted. What the others didn't take, he stored. And that book was one of them. I loved that book. I read it like a novel. We were married in the late 50's. So the next edition hadn't come out yet. And yes, I know it is worth a lot of money today. I just don't know that my kids do. I will have to make a codicil to my will. But I first have to decide what to do with it. I still have plenty of time to give it some thought.
I'd put a codicil in my will to pass it back to your son! I'm groveling! I'd offer my firstborn, but I don't have one of those...unless you count Pearl or Opal.Not much CSW. I just wish I could split it up to make a few folks really happy. Lets just say you would be on the short list.
I'd put a codicil in my will to pass it back to your son! I'm groveling! I'd offer my firstborn, but I don't have one of those...unless you count Pearl or Opal.
And I'd have to find an eye of a newt and wings of a bat...maybe eBay would be the place to start...And it shows. Your forgot to offer the 'eye of a newt, and the wings of a bat.' First we have to make sure it is still there.
Oh....if that is the 1932 edition, what a lovely book to have. It is the first cookbook that was written in a more "motherly" voice and one that didn't assume the only people cooking were women. There's an interesting paper on MUSE about gender and cookbooks and this edition is mention. What would I have to do to get in line to inherit it? As of sometime next week, PF will have one more cookbook (and it will be hard to hide it from Shrek).
Spike is going to look through his father belongings that are stored in a garage. He is is pretty sure his original (First printing) of the Joy of Cooking is there.
Addie,I too have that cookbook though its a revised 1998 edition. I picked it up quite cheaply at a garage sale here. There is just so much information and recipes in there I just love it. I really feel its a must have in every cooks bookcase. Nothing beats a good cook book in my opinion
I'm wondering now Addie, whether yours being an original edition,will it be worth lots you think?
Few cookbooks, a growing collection of magazines. Although we decided to slow down on the magazines until we make a few things from them, after the last couple weeks we are open to another purchase. Yea! Biggest problem we have is printed recipes, a six inch pile of loose printer paper. We have made attempts to deal with all the paper but then we end up at the grocery store shopping for items on one of the recipes.
I collect cookbooks. I think I have over 100 of them. It started out with some of the Church Cookbooks they sell for fundraisers but now I only buy unusual cookbooks and I never pay much for them. I don't actually cook from them, just collect them.
Yesterday at Goodwill I got one called "Are You Hungry Tonight? Elvis' Favorite Recipes." I know it sounds corny, but it's a really novel addition to my collection. It is hardback with a dust cover in perfect condition, many southern recipes and pictures...of the food and of Elvis. I get excited over the smallest things sometimes!
Are You Hungry Tonight?: Elvis' Favorite Recipes by Brenda Butler | 9780760763025 | Hardcover | Barnes & Noble