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#202345 - 04/15/10 07:29 PM
Re: Cookbooks, anyone?
[Re: Di]
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Boomer in Chief
Registered: 03/12/10
Posts: 3212
Loc: Illinois
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Hi Di and Jaw Jaw, I have gobs of loose recipes too, not to mention that the recipe box I received at a wedding recipe shower back in the 70's has all but give up the ghost... I keep it together with rubber bands! So most times, a few of those recipes are out of the box, as well. I need to get some sort of 3 ring binder and start over... Meanwhile, Georgia, you are right, elephant does trump raccoon. Wanted to jump back into this conversation, as I read an interesting column in the Chicago Trib Food column today: A list of the top cook books all cooks "should" have. Yikes, I've been "getting by" all these years with only 2 of those books in my personal possession. Here's the link. The columnist wants to know what books we readers think are missing from the list. Here 'tis: Chicago Tribune List of Top Cook Books We Can't Live Without Anne
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#202348 - 04/15/10 10:13 PM
Re: Cookbooks, anyone?
[Re: Anne Holmes]
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Da Queen
Registered: 07/02/03
Posts: 12025
Loc: Alabama
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I love my "Calling All Cooks" book which is done by the telephone companies. Also, Mrs. Mary BoBo's book (a boarding house in Lynchburg, TN, home of the Jack Daniels Distillery)...Then I have a Campbell's book which has yummy recipes for all of their soups... Another fab is my "restaurant" one which has the secret recipes from all of the restaurants we know and love to frequent... So many cookbooks...so little flour.
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#202409 - 04/17/10 01:11 PM
Re: Cookbooks, anyone?
[Re: chatty lady]
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Registered: 03/22/05
Posts: 4876
Loc: Canada
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We have a tall,narrow shelving unit in the corner of the kitchen/dining room...it holds only cookbooks, many very old from my Mom and various aunts. Some of the aunt ones have hand-written notes and I can't bear to give them away. I keep trying to sort the books out to give some away, but can't seem to give an entire shelf's worth away, so end up keeping them all in order to keep the other books from toppling over. LOL. Some excuse, eh? But the only one I really use anymore is the green binder full of recipes I've either copied off of the Internet or old family recipes that I've typed up.
I do have a passion for buying cookbooks from charity organizations. I have so many of those from various churches, cancer and other charities. I rarely ever use them, but love collecting them.
Edited by Eagle Heart (04/17/10 01:14 PM)
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#202425 - 04/17/10 08:17 PM
Re: Cookbooks, anyone?
[Re: Eagle Heart]
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Registered: 11/07/05
Posts: 1096
Loc: West Chester ,PA
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I'm the same as you Eagle, I love collecting cookbooks...I have over 200 now and I can promise you that I haven't tried recipes from each one..but after seeing the movie Julie & Julia I vowed to my husband that one year after we retire I will make a meal from a different cookbook each day for a year...:) In the meantime I love to read them...some of the homespun cookbooks written by organizations as fundraisers have some great ideas in them..and other simply remind me of a nice visit to a different town or a great restaurant where I purchased the cookbook.
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