Your favorite Cookbooks

[Food Network Fan]

If you print them and save them you are doing better than I am. More often than not I print then throw away ... then print again.

Don't worry Email has cut down the amount of regular mail to help compensate for the trees. They can use that for books now. Now if we can just get rid of the junk mailers that would save millions.

[BerryBaby]

I recycle at least two grocery bags of junk mail each week. We grind up the address info and recycle the shredded paper as well. Everything get recycled in our house. Takes a lot of time, but it's worth it.

[Clove]

Originally Posted by BerryBaby

I have many of those community type cookbooks from all over the country. Relatives have sent them over the years. The Junior League use to put one out each year when we lived in Eugene. There are some real classic recipes in those books that were original family recipes. Can't find those on the Internet!

BB,

You are correct!
Family recipes and favorite recipes from others can't always be found on the Internet.
I doubt that you could accumulate as many of those cookbooks as MEP and BJ are contemplating

[BerryBaby]

True, I couldn't. However, the ones I have are treasures. Some great recipes that have been passed down through the years. They may not make it on the FN, but I sure do enjoy entertaining my friends with them and they enjoy partaking!

[Clove]

Originally Posted by BerryBaby

True, I couldn't. However, the ones I have are treasures. Some great recipes that have been passed down through the years. They may not make it on the FN, but I sure do enjoy entertaining my friends with them and they enjoy partaking!

Over the last 5 years or so, I've posted most of my favorite and family recipes on a few different websites and forums.
That way I can send people to them if they want them and I don't have to keep writing them down. And I can find them with a simple key word search. Easier than going through my cookbooks and notes. It took some time, but now, anywhere in the world, I can have access to them. Even on my cell phone.
I even get to share them with people that have never been at a meal or party that I've hosted.

It's like a seed, blowing in the wind and finding a place to grow. Then going to seed and spreading itself even further.
A recipe on the Internet is a metaphor for life itself - Wow!

[MiseEnPlace]

Originally Posted by Clove

MNP,

...or save some money (and trees) and use the internet...

I do print recipes from the Internet and FN too. I have the binder of recipes collected over the years. But I buy the vast majority of my cookbooks on the second hand market. That's how I've been able to accumulate so many.

The only cookbooks I've actually bought new are Alton Brown's

[Food Network Fan]

Then you are actually saving them from being thrown out. Give a cookbook a home.

[BerryBaby]

We should start "Adopt a Cookbook". Why don't all of us go out and rescue a cookbook from the second hand stores? There are some real interesting ones.
Then we can write about our 'finds' to each other.

Years ago I bought one from the 1940's. Food dishes were very different than they are today. If nothing else, it surely makes you see how food has evolved over they years.

[cyberdoc]

Probably the one I use the most is the CIA textbook The Professional Chef.