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How Many Cookbooks Do You Have?

CrazyKittyLvr2 — Sun, 06 Sep 2020 17:28:34 GMT

I have a good 30/35. I got rid of probably 50 over the last few years. I know you can anything on the internet but I like to go through them. I like a book in my hand.

I found an Emeril Lagasse cookbook and said, "when the heck did I buy this?"

DD responded, "you didn't, it's mine and it's autographed." Huh!! "You hate cooking and anything kitchen related, why and when did you buy a cookbook."

Emeril did a book signing at a store near DD's office years ago and she went, bought his book and got it signed. Well, okey dokey then.

I have a stack of paperback Best of books from QVC that must be 15 years old. Those I am getting rid of. I have 2 Ina Garten cookbooks, and I don't even care for Ina Garten.

I need a 12 step program for cookbooks and kitchen related stuff. But, but I might need it someday. Someday never comes. No wonder DH just shook his head sometimes.

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jeanlake — Sun, 06 Sep 2020 17:35:01 GMT

I scaled down to a sentimental 5 when I moved 3 years ago.

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Mumof2 — Sun, 06 Sep 2020 17:49:54 GMT

I have 8 cookbooks after scaling back but should really only have 3 since that's how many I use.

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Miss Pepsi — Sun, 06 Sep 2020 17:57:58 GMT

I have like maybe 10 but the most important one is the one that was my Moms and she used it religiously. I have that one put up as I bought that same cookbooks when it came out a few years ago as an anniversary. I use it all the time as if something happens to that one it's not as big of deal. The actuall one my mom used has notes in it written by her and it is too precious to risk something happening to it.

I got rid of a probably 50-60 cookbooks about a year ago. I used to love them but now I just do an internet search and I print out the recipes I use over and over again.

Just doing the whole downsizing thing.

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Still Raining — Sun, 06 Sep 2020 17:59:26 GMT

Went down to four with my big sort. Should have one more that I still miss.

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spiderw — Sun, 06 Sep 2020 18:01:43 GMT

I have many old cookbooks and in fact have one given to me when I was a young girl! Most of what I have are retro cookbooks from my mom. The funny thing is that she rarely looked at the cookbooks and I haven't either!

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Sooner — Sun, 06 Sep 2020 18:04:42 GMT

Probably more than 100 and I have thinned them in the last few years.

I am old, so I have all the old masters from back in the day. I have books on cooking in regions where we have spent time: Low Country, New Orleans, New England, the South.

I have regional and ethnic books: French, Italian, Mexican/Southwest/South American; Middle Eastern and Mediterranean.

I have books on entertaining because we used to have big parties; I have books on baking and sourdough and such; I have books on bbq and was friends with a lot of the bbq teams at one time in my life, and I have books on healthy eating.

And then other miscellaneous aspects of food, preparation and entertaining.

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kitcat51 — Sun, 06 Sep 2020 18:13:58 GMT

One.

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FrostyBabe1 — Sun, 06 Sep 2020 18:15:21 GMT

I've got one somewhere, but I'd have to hunt for it.

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drizzellla — Sun, 06 Sep 2020 18:21:40 GMT

I donated about 30 cookbooks 2 weeks ago. I still have 29 (I just counted them).

Not sure why I kept so many, I am quickly losing interest in spending hours making something and then spending an hour cleaning up the dirty dishes, bowls and pans that I made.

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ALRATIBA — Sun, 06 Sep 2020 18:24:42 GMT

One antique "Around the World Cookbook" from Pan American Airlines.

A stack of Vegetarian Times magazines

Two biinders with recipes printed out from allrecipies.com.

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KBEANS — Sun, 06 Sep 2020 18:27:25 GMT

I have about 5 real ones. The others came with appliances like The Ninja, The Copper Chef, Le Cruset Dutch oven, etc. but they do have some good recipes.

My sons gifted me cook books by Ina Garten (she's my favorite tv chef) Curtis Stone, and Morimoto. My friend is a culinary teacher at a high school and swears the original Betty Crocker Cook book is the best ever. Everything he has the children make comes from just that book...all these years later.

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gidgetgh — Sun, 06 Sep 2020 18:32:03 GMT

I own zero actual cookbooks. I DO have a collection of recipes I have collected through the years contained in a cute as a button little recipe binder thingy that I bought years ago.

Now if I would just open that adorable binder and actually use some of those recipes.

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haddon9 — Sun, 06 Sep 2020 18:40:16 GMT

I got rid of a lot of them and have about 15 left. They aren't easy to get to since I have them in a cabinet high up but no place else to store them...they rarely get used.

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DAD — Sun, 06 Sep 2020 18:53:20 GMT

I don't even want to count them!! I have got to let some of them go. Thanks for the reminder!!

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wilma — Sun, 06 Sep 2020 18:55:58 GMT

@gidgetgh wrote:
I own zero actual cookbooks. I DO have a collection of recipes I have collected through the years contained in a cute as a button little recipe binder thingy that I bought years ago.

Now if I would just open that adorable binder and actually use some of those recipes.

@gidgetgh

Same here. My binder contains my mom’s recipes handed down to me and other favorites from various sources.

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Neetgal2 — Sun, 06 Sep 2020 19:17:10 GMT

I have about 10 NOW. At one time maybe 30. I have my Moms, the one I received as a wedding or shower gift (from MIL, to be sure her son was well fed) and others passed down from relatives or friends who thought I loved to cook. There was the Good Housekeeping illustrated cookbook I just had to have I think in the 80's. I really should get rid of a couple of paperback free ones with recipes using cream cheese or jello and Campbell Soup books since everything is on the internet. Maybe I will tomorrow! At 70 I do not cook much. I came from a home where my mother and grandmother were great cooks so learned by watching.

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Icegoddess — Sun, 06 Sep 2020 19:35:32 GMT

I have whittled down my collection to probably about 10-15. A few are sentimental. I went through a whole bunch of them and copied the recpes I wanted out of them and they are now in a huge database that I started many years ago. I still have a lot of those books but they are boxed up. I was planning on taking them to church and offering first dibs to the ladies there.

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QVCkitty1 — Sun, 06 Sep 2020 19:45:38 GMT

I have a few favorites, Ina Garten, Lidia Bastianich, and a few Rachael Ray's . The one I use the most is a book where I have written favorites that I collected over the years from friends and family. Those recipes have stained pages due to many uses, and they are truly the best. I also have many recipes bookmarked from the internet.

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Toots711 — Sun, 06 Sep 2020 20:03:36 GMT

To Retired Legal Secretary

Do you have any Dinah Shore cookbooks?