I've been wanting to use my cookbooks more, since I have a couple of them and they're just sitting on the shelf gaining dust.
But, in the age of the internet and with thousands of recipes available online, I sometimes ask myself if cookbooks still have a place in our homes. Truth be told, I find it much easier to search and use recipes online. It's very practical that I can just google a recipe when I'm looking for something specific and it's a lot easier to read recipes from my cellphone or my laptop screen when I'm cooking.
I still love cookbooks just because I'm a bookworm and I love books as objects, but I ask myself why do I want to cook recipes from a book when cooking from recipes online is so much easier? I've read arguments that recipes online have been tried and tested and are backed by research while online anything goes, but is that really so and if yes does that make much of a difference?
So I'm wondering what's everyone's take on this? Do you still make recipes from cookbooks, and why yes/why not?
But, in the age of the internet and with thousands of recipes available online, I sometimes ask myself if cookbooks still have a place in our homes. Truth be told, I find it much easier to search and use recipes online. It's very practical that I can just google a recipe when I'm looking for something specific and it's a lot easier to read recipes from my cellphone or my laptop screen when I'm cooking.
I still love cookbooks just because I'm a bookworm and I love books as objects, but I ask myself why do I want to cook recipes from a book when cooking from recipes online is so much easier? I've read arguments that recipes online have been tried and tested and are backed by research while online anything goes, but is that really so and if yes does that make much of a difference?
So I'm wondering what's everyone's take on this? Do you still make recipes from cookbooks, and why yes/why not?