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10-21-2014 08:13 PM
It is amazing how every cook book author writes like it is the only cook book you have ever seen! I have one called Leaving Home that has all the info you would ever need but that it the purpose of her book. I use the internet, copy and paste into Word, today. Not buying any new ones but wouldn't part with my older ones.
10-21-2014 08:18 PM
The last cookbook I purchased that was really more of a travel companion was the book Mario Batalli wrote after his trip to Spain. It was a joke that I paid for and, boy, was I ticked. Won't do that again.
The internet hasn't done it all for me. There's a lot of junk on the internet. You absolutely have to know what you're doing in the kitchen to even consider a recipe on the internet.
10-21-2014 09:42 PM
On 10/21/2014 ValuSkr said:You can find any kind of recipe online. I can't figure out why people still buy cook books.
I'm not a fan of cookbooks either, mostly because I usually only find a couple of recipes in each that I really like, and I don't have space to store them.
I do enjoy reading a good cookbook with all the extra stuff, as I find that stuff more interesting than the actual recipes.
10-22-2014 09:40 AM
On 10/21/2014 FunkyHulaGirl said:On 10/21/2014 ValuSkr said:You can find any kind of recipe online. I can't figure out why people still buy cook books.
How about because we enjoy sitting down, relaxing for a while, and just browsing through them?
Or because some of us would rather use a cookbook than look at a computer screen or a printed out piece of paper.
Such a novel idea. And who wants a bunch of printed out recipes? LOL
I buy a lot of ebooks for my kindle even. I enjoy looking through those too, as opposed to sitting at the computer.
And some ebooks have a lot of 'front matter' as you call it also. I jump to the TOC
10-22-2014 09:49 AM
Sooner, I totally agree with you....and I love Doc Martin, too!
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