Spot-On: Overbooked Cook
You can read the complete article at Spot-On.
Monday, October 22, 2007
You can read the complete article at Spot-On.
Disclaimer: Most quantities in recipes are approximate. Adjust as needed according to your taste and experience. Unless otherwise specified, eggs are large and butter is unsalted.
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- Farmgirl Fare
- The Food Section
- I Heart Bacon
- I'm Mad and I Eat
- Kalyn's Kitchen
- Kitchen Parade
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6 Comments:
Movers hate me too. I'm not only a collector but a certified 'hoarder'of recipes. Every once in a while I use one to help teach my 15 year old daughter, but mostly I like looking at my cookbooks on shelves and various surfaces all over my house...they're comforting I suppose.
Maven,
I had a friend once who had nearly 1000 cookbooks.
I hear you.
I have banned myself from buying any new cookbooks. I feel that I have to the best Mexican ones (Bayless), the best Cajun & Creole, the best Italian, a few of Julia's, all the ones I go to again and again. Of course, that didn't stop me from accepting one from my mother recently: Bittman's 'The Best recipes in the World.' I said BUY, remember?
As I recently moved too, I did, in fact, cull many unused cookbooks and gave them to the local library. But it almost killed me to give up most of my old Bon Appetits going back to the early 80s. Between those and clippings from newspapers, not to mention the ones on my computer here and all the ones I print out from people like you online, I figure I'll hvae to live to be about 200 years old to get through them all.
And my mother has got to have at LEAST about 500 herself. Like I said, I hear you!
Peggasus,
I dropped Bon Appetit and Gourmet ages ago, but I still subscribe to Cooks Illustrated, Fine Cooking, Cuisine At Home, and the Art of Eating. But most of these provide complete articles and so are more than simply collections of recipes.
Hi Kevin..just poked my head out of a cloud of dust to catch up on what people are saying and doing in the rest of the world...and as usual I'm struck by the fact that our lives, so different in so many ways (I loved the World Series, I know you probably didn't watch), share so many connections....in the early days of my blog I wrote a similar piece with the same basic outlook -- see
On Cookbooks, Recipes and Cooking...I think the more we cook the less we need instruction...but at the same time I'd never want to cast adrift from all the accumulated information people have recorded over time about their foods and preparation procedures...interesting topic, thanks for bringing it up...
I love books, cookbooks included. While I don't follow recipes for 95% or so of my cooking, I still like to go digging for something new to try from time to time. I tend to somewhat follow recipes for the first time making a dish, particularly when workiing with ingredients I've never used before, but rarely do I follow a recipe to the letter more than once.
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