Two things to check out on Google News: Barry Popik (me) and Bonnie
Slotnick.

Bonnie Slotnick's cookbook store is well known to Andy Smith and
others on this list. I passed by to tell her about my articles, and
found out she was just on Reuters!

Old-Time Cookbooks Big Draw at New York Store
Fri Sep 3, 2004 06:27 PM ET

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Old cookbooks never die -- in fact, they are not
often willingly surrendered. One woman even took her beloved Betty
Crocker book to the grave.

Cookbook connoisseur Bonnie Slotnick has heard many of these tales,
whispered or recalled with laughter, about women so attached to their
cookbooks that they end up practically being "dragged out of dying
hands."

"The bottom line for a lot of people is ... this craving for comfort
that cookbooks supply," Slotnick said as curious customers browsed in
her tiny Greenwich Village shop.
(...)

My web site, "the Big Apple" (www.barrypopik.com), is up and has been
mentioned on eGullet and Food History News and this week in the
Toronto Globe and Mail. I originally just wanted to explain the Big
Apple for the Big Apple Fest (www.bigapplefest.org), but I have about
40 New York City foods on the site (bagel, bialy, cheesecake, hot
dogs, for example).

REC.FOOD.HISTORIC--I tried to post a few weeks ago and was told that I
had "too many posts" on rec.food.historic. This is insane. I have tons
of food research riches that normally would be shared here, but I have
and will be posting in other places.

Barry Popik
New York, NY
www.barrypopik.com