On Jun 23, 10:04*pm, Christine Dabney > wrote:
> Heya folks,
>
> I am in orientation all this week..and today we had several speakers.
> One was a chaplain, who asked us if we had Living Trusts and wills.
>
> This got me thinking...and thinking about my kitchenware and
> cookbooks, among other things. *The slightly morbid part is wondering
> how to give those to people that enjoy food and cooking, and to whom
> they should go to, after I am gone.
>
> I put this question to the cookbook collectors first of all.. Are you
> planning to leave your cookbooks to family? *Or do something else with
> them?

Well, I'm not a cookbook collector, but...

I expect I'll leave everything to... The Nature Conservancy? The Ark
Coffeehouse here in Ann Arbor? Planned Parenthood? Something
like that. My executor will no doubt have an estate sale, and
everything
I own will go to strangers. I don't have any family younger than me.
(At least, none that I have any contact with.) I won't need a will
until my
husband is dead, although I probably should have one anyway, in case
we get in a car accident and die simultaneously.

The only cooking thing I have that is at all interesting is my
great-grandmother's Griswold cast iron skillet. I very rarely use
it, because it's only about 6 inches across. Maybe my grandmother's
set of cordial glasses. IIRC, they're very thin pinkish cut glass.
(I should get them down out of the "we never use these things"
cupboard
and see if they have any markings on them.)

Cindy Hamilton