Julie Bove wrote:
> "Christine Dabney" > wrote in message
> ...
>> 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.
>
> Most of the recipes in those old cookbooks are on the Internet and there are
> websites that have the pages of the old cookbooks there. Some of my books
> were literally falling apart because the paper had deteriorated so much.
> And I simply don't have the room to store them. I kept only what will fit
> on two shelves. And I never ever used them or even look at them any more.
>
>
Still eeeeeeeeking. Sometimes, actually OFTEN, looking for a
specific recipe and going through cookbooks are not the same
activity. One gets, *I* get, so much more out of cookbooks. One
can just READ them, handle them. Not the same at all.

I am also reminded... Back when I was first online, I spent
almost ALL of my time looking for recipes. (I was taking care of
my demented father and therefore had MUCH time at home.)
Sometimes I would find very esoteric foreign sites, which later
disappeared. I am REALLY glad I saved many files (I think more
than 200 files, of ca 100 pages each) of such recipes.

--
Jean B.