Christine Dabney wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Mar 2012 22:10:01 -0700, "Julie Bove"
> > wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> I don't have them just for the recipes. I have them for the stories
> inside. I think that is the way of most other cookbook collectors as
> well.. If we wanted just recipes, yes we could get just recipes.
>
> I think you have to have the mind of a cookbook collector to
> understand where we are coming from..
>
> Christine

Yes! These can be fairly different activities.

--
Jean B.