Do you like to read cookery books?

Windigo said:
Reading cookery books is what got me into cooking. I've always had the ability to 'taste' a dish through reading a recipe, and as a 6 year old I apparently already read my grandma's cookbooks while gesturing like I was eating lol :laugh:

The first cookbook I ever owned was a 'cooking with kids' book that I got from my grandma due to this particular hobby, and it's always been an interest of mine since. I must own at least a 100 cookbooks by now.

My favorites are usually chefs biographies like Nigel Slater's toast, that's such a delicious book.
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Same thing happened with me!! It was with an old American Culinary Arts cookbook, or something like that. As I looked through it, I used to be dazzled over the pics of luscious looking dishes of food that I found. Actually, that is what started me making yeast breads!! :wink:
 
All the time. I rarely read a book now. It's fun to read cookbooks. Some of my favorites Julia Child's, Deep Run Roots by Vivian Howard and vintage cookbooks. I finished one recently about Savannah, Georgia. Recipes from cooks during the early days of Savannah to the 1930s. Fascinating! I love older cookbooks the best, they tell a story.
 
I don't enjoy reading at all but cook books are different. I always just pick up a random cook book, usually one I haven't looked at for a while and go through it, often over a coffee and breakfast. I've now started to mark the pages with sticky tabs on the recipies I want to try. I've got so many now, I will have to count them. It's awful really but I reckon I've actually only used 20% of them. I'm not into shoes and handbags; cookbooks, pots and pans seem to be my thing.
 
jojopops70 said:
I've now started to mark the pages with sticky tabs on the recipies I want to try.
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You mean like this? :)
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jojopops70 said:
I don't enjoy reading at all but cook books are different. I always just pick up a random cook book, usually one I haven't looked at for a while and go through it, often over a coffee and breakfast. I've now started to mark the pages with sticky tabs on the recipies I want to try. I've got so many now, I will have to count them. It's awful really but I reckon I've actually only used 20% of them. I'm not into shoes and handbags; cookbooks, pots and pans seem to be my thing.
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Hey @jojopops70! You are perfectly positioned to join in with our relatively new challenge: The Cookbook Game #3! It has just over 5 days to run on this round so you have time to join in (if you wish to).
 
TastyReuben said:
You mean like this? :)
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Yesterday I looked at my cookbooks with tabs and papers sticking up marking all sorts of things. I don't know how old some of those markers are, but, when I checked out 3 or 4 books, I was surprised that I no longer wanted to have most of those marked any longer. Still have a lot of cookbooks with markers. Now I know what I will be doing when this forum is down for a while. lol
 
morning glory said:
Yeah - I am trying to collect more vintage cookery books. The really old ones (1950's and earlier) are not easy to come by.
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MG, your post sent me searching for my oldest cookbook. So far, I think it is this one. "Beer and Vittels" by Elizabeth Craig-pub. 1955 (in London) It is a very interesting read. Not too much about her (it is her 25th or 30th cookbook) but about beer. This is her first line in the introduction- "If there is one form of cookery that has been neglected more than another in Britain it is beer cookery."
 
cookieee said:
MG, your post sent me searching for my oldest cookbook. So far, I think it is this one. "Beer and Vittels" by Elizabeth Craig-pub. 1955 (in London) It is a very interesting read. Not too much about her (it is her 25th or 30th cookbook) but about beer. This is her first line in the introduction- "If there is one form of cookery that has been neglected more than another in Britain it is beer cookery."
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That sounds fascinating - I may see if I can get a copy. Amazon booksellers do sometimes stock vintage cookery books (goes off to look).

Got it - ordered for a small sum. Thanks!
 
Your welcome, hope you enjoy it.

Did you do a search on her? I was surprised by how many cookbooks she has written. Have you ever heard of her before?
Yea, I was bummed how little her book was going for. Thought I might make some money, guess not. lol DH bought me this book back in '02 at a used book store. He doesn't remember what he paid for it. So far, there are 7 pages marked. lol
 
I have three:
  • Mary Berry Fast Cakes (2018)
    The Best-Ever Books Of Cakes (2015)
    The Cookie And Biscuit Bible (2015)
 
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