Christine Dabney wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Mar 2012 23:58:58 -0400, "Jean B." > wrote:
>
>> Cookbooks, are another story.
>>
>> --
>> Jean B.
>
> Same here, Jean. I go back to mine all the time.
>
> I am at home in NM right now, with most of my cookbooks surrounding
> me. I am running out of bookshelf space for them..so I am devising
> ways to shuffle bookcases around to allow for more.
>
> Today, I was looking through some for a technique...and went through
> several to just compare them. I saw some in my shelves that I had
> forgotten that I had. It was a pleasure pulling them out and looking
> through them again. And going through some of the classic books and
> series, reading some I got early on in my collecting. Some I pull
> out of the shelves just to reread as a story. Like The Auberge of The
> Flowering Hearth. I think that is one of my favorites of all time.
> Going through some of the food memoirs...like Craig Claiborne..
>
> Going through them, I start dreaming about dinner parties I would love
> to give and probably never will.. A dish will start me thinking about
> a whole menu planned around it, and then send me to other cookbooks to
> dream about the accompanying dishes.
>
> No, I could never give up my cookbooks. And I doubt I will ever stop
> getting new ones.
>
> Christine

Cookbooks can be so much fun, as you so vividly point out. I
slowed down for a while but seem to be back out there looking again.

What new cookbooks have appealed to you, Christine? I was in B&N
a few weeks ago, thinking I'd have a hard time winnowing my wants
down. I only went through the Asian section then, and there were
no real "must-haves" for me. That is probably a good thing. I
thought I'd want the "Asian Tofu"by Andrea Nguyen, but found I
could resist that. And I REALLY didn't like Nina Simond's new
book (Simple Asian Meals). I need (or don't need) more time to
look there.

I did find some nice antique cookbooks elsewhere PLUS a diary from
1857 that was devoted to recipes, so I'm as happy as that
proverbial clam.

Oh, also, I was looking for something in my library network and
found four new-to-me Asian cookbooks to go through. Yum! I saw
that one of the Thai cookbooks was volume 4 in a series and am not
pleased that I can't locate the other volumes. Still...

--
Jean B.