Does anyone collect cookbooks?

**Sara Noel** · 08-24-2007, 10:07 PM

I started collecting cookbooks recently. It is addicting. I enjoy chuckling at the 60's and 70's cookbooks. They sure knew what to do with hotdogs. lmao I'm still new at this and haven't decided what my favorite type is yet, but I suppose I'm leaning more toward baking more than cooking recipes. I have about 30 now, but it's growing quickly. lmao I buy them at the thrift store and used bookstore. <---which is ALWAYS closed when I want to go.

**kabin63** · 08-25-2007, 12:15 AM

I can't say I collect them, but I have several that were given to me by a friend. My favorite is called "The Housekeeper Cook Book" and it was published in 1894. It's not in the best of shape and has about the first 16 pages missing, but I love to read it and have learned so much from it.

I also have my Grand Mother's cookbook from the 40's. It reads like an updated version of the one I just mentioned.

**karone** · 08-25-2007, 09:05 AM

i have a few good house keeping ones, i got a free hellman's "your sandwich made it" from amazon.co.uk earlier this year, the harry potter one from my library, diet and nutrition magazine, kraft magazine (cant remember the name of it) and other cookbooks from the net. right now im trying to put all those recipes onto here so that i can print my own out the way i like it. its time consuming but once i get it done it will be great. i will probbably give them to my mom or goodwill when im done with them.

**Nada.Leona** · 08-25-2007, 07:42 PM

is a chef, so we have quite a collection of the more fancy, classic cookbooks. Included in our pantry bookcase (yup, there's a bookcase in our kitchen) are titles like:

The Joy of Cooking (New Version)
Mastering the Art of French Cooking by Julia Child
From Julia Child's Kitchen by Julia Child
A Chef Cooks from Home by Jaques Pepin
La Cuisine by Raymond Oliver
The Essentials of Cooking by James Peterson
Several books by Hell's Kitchen's Gordon Ramsey (

's kitchen idol)

And an eclectic bunch of Bon Appetit, Food and Wine, and Gourmet magazines.

He reads and studies these like I do frugality!

**Laurie in Bradenton** · 08-25-2007, 07:53 PM

Well I'm in the obsessed group. Well over 2000 and more when I come across them. Love Jr. League, Gooseberry and pre 1960's. The more used, written in the more loved. I also read them like novels and cook out of them. DH jokes he can always tell when I've gotten a new to me one by the new meals. I make notes in mine :
The front cover inside where I got it, how much I paid and when. On the recipes comments as to how family likes or disliked and when I made it.
As I read them I put a sticky note on the flypage and note recipes to try on it.
Dh built me a floor to ceiling bookcase in my office on a nine foot wall just for my cookbooks. Also have them in the kitchen, in the diniingroom and in my bedroom (in the to read pile).
Laurie in Bradenton

**PB&J** · 08-25-2007, 08:06 PM

I have a bunch of the Taste of Home cookbooks, 1994-2005, though I think I am missing 98. I also love those fundraiser cookbooks. I have a bunch of those, too. I have the red/white checked Better homes and gardens, which is my fave. Also a pink/white checked BH&G, which was a breast cancer special book, has healthy recipes and such.