Hoarding Recipes

May 30, 2008 09:23

I've had an odd realization. I hoard recipes. I love to get new cookbooks and flip through them and think about making this recipe or that recipe. I get several cooking magazines and religiously clip recipes from them that i then file away in a carefully designed filing system. I read several food blogs and obsessively tag any recipes that ( Read more... )

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fuzzyscribble May 30 2008, 14:30:45 UTC
My mother collects cookbooks. She has about 1600 of them cataloged by country. I should hook y'all up. That's where I got you the seaweed cookbook from. Mom finally decided after owning it all of those years...nope...she was never going to cook with sea veggies.

I get it...

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starkraving_mad June 5 2008, 13:54:26 UTC
Well, I don't have anywhere near 1600. I don't think I have even 100. But the point's the same.

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bohemima June 5 2008, 00:06:16 UTC
We are soulmates. How is that I have not met you? My recipe collection and cookbook collection is huge. I rarely use either as a cooking guide, but often leaf through them, as though I were talking desultorily with old friends. And I'm still collecting new ones.

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starkraving_mad June 5 2008, 14:00:29 UTC
I've got several coffee table book type cookbooks from fancy restaurants: Charlie Trotter, The French Laundry, etc. I don't think I ever really planned on cooking anything from them, but even after owning them for years, I still find it somewhat calming to sit down with one and flip through to look at the pictures and *think* about cooking them.

I got a book of nothing but pickles for Christmas last year and I still love reading through the recipes, even though there are no pictures. I've made a few of the pickles from it, but I think even more than making them, I just love the idea that I *could* make them all if I choose to.

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