Tracy wrote:
> Jean B. wrote:
>> I was VERY bad yesterday. First, I went to the abode of a former
>> restaurateur who was selling a cookbook collection. The ad said $65
>> for the collection, but that turned out not to be the case. I still
>> ended up with a full plastic bin of cookbooks. (Did I mention the
>> fact that I seem to be marching toward having a cookbook shop to help
>> support this nasty collecting habit?)
>>
>> As if that wasn't enough, I then proceeded to New England Mobile Book
>> Fair. As some of you know, that is the brick and mortar home of
>> Jessica's Biscuit. I was intending ONLY to look in the sale area,
>> having found some wonderful goodies there before (e.g., Cagle and
>> Stafford's American Books on Food & Drink). I have a very poor track
>> record there, so, as one might predict, I also went to their huge
>> cookbook area (the store has much more than cookbooks). I scanned the
>> international cookbooks pretty thoroughly, ending up with several more
>> books. I always wonder if I will end up with cathedral neck there,
>> because the shelves are ultra-high. Or whether I will topple off one
>> of the little step stools, used to get a closer look at some of those
>> higher books.
>
> I live so close the the New England Mobile Book Fair - but I haven't
> been in years. I need to drag the DH over there soon.
>
> Thanks for the reminder it exists. The China Fair is right next door
> too, I think.
>
> http://chinafairinc.com/
>
> Tracy

It is! I always notice it as I head toward NEMB's driveway, but
then I manage to forget as I look at cookbooks. (Hmmm, the
obvious solution is to go to China Fair first. Since I haven't
been to that one, they may have some new [to me] finds. It is NOT
an exaggeration to say that when I went to the Cambridge one after
not going for over a decade--and possibly two decades--they still
had the same stuff in the same places. Not all of it, of course,
but in the area I tend to gravitate toward.)

Maybe you are just smart not to go to the bookstore! :-)

--
Jean B.