Where have I been? Freaking the fuck out about Trump is where.
The cost of things has absolutely skyrocketed. Many social services are at a standstill. Businesses are firing people.
And we're about to retire in a few months.
!!!! SO LETS TALK ABOUT COOKBOOKS !!!
This month I said to myself 'Self, let's buy you a Valentines gift' so I bought myself a pile of used cookbooks online yesterday and now I can't remember the names of them all. Well, I remember one - Sunset's Kitchen Cabinet cookbook from (1935?)
I collect vintage Sunset cookbooks, and this one has been on my list for years!
Tell me you wouldn't buy this. HA. You can't. You would totally buy this.
Thing is, I was supposed to buy a baby shower gift for a friend of mine. Off I trotted (figuratively) to her online baby registry, which refused to co-operate and pissed me off, and now I have to wait and try it again in another week, don't ask me why. I may just buy her a gift card and send it snail mail. ANYWAY. So there I was looking at my credit card balance, and I thought to myself 'Self, you can't take it with you.' And then...I must have entered some sort of fugue state.
Yeah. That sounds good.
Thing is, I have two in my cart over at Abe Books, marinating, waiting for that 'Hey Nations! Get 20% off what's in your cart if you purchase now!' notification. Well worth waiting for are these:
The Biker and I are rabid Tony Bourdain fanatics and this is going to take a place of honor our bookshelves!
I have been wanting this since the freakin' 1970's, when I could have bought it for a buck ninety five, it looks like. Now? I am spending way, way too much money on it and I don't care.
Yes it's available for free online.
THAT'S NOT THE SAME.
I guess this is a predicament I look forward to having.
WHAT ARE YOUR FAVORITE COOKBOOKS? Answer at length in the comments!!
...or the passive aggressive twat who drives this car that I spotted in Lynden will come chew on your doorknob at night!
I'm no cook - thankfully Madam A is! - but way back in the 1980s I used to use the recipe booklet that came with the Tower Pressure Cooker. The very best chilli con carne ever! Jx
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I went to the Tower Appliances site and found the recipe - and that's a damn good recipe! They even got the chocolate right! WOW!
DeleteWe've been to the same place! (Freaking the fuck out about Trump!)
ReplyDeleteAs for cookbooks, I love old vintage ones but I don't know of a particular publisher or author that I like. I just look for cheap old cookbooks with the binding falling off at thrift stores, and nine times out of ten I enjoy them.
And that's how the addiction starts...
DeleteI can't imagine why ANYONE would be upset with anything trump is doing?!?!?!?! I will admit, it's so sickening and deeply upsetting. I too admit, it has been hard blogging, about anything really, and I even cut most news out to two times a week, and even then I need a strong gin...with bromide.
ReplyDeleteAnd I could be wrong, but do I spy two Julia Child cookbooks? At least one , the one on top of that one pile of books, looks to be one of her French Cooking volumes ? Or am I plum loca sweet cheeks?
You do indeed! Those replace the ones I lost in the flood. Those cookbooks are absolutely KEY in my opinion. OMG do you cook out of 'Mastering'??
DeleteSunset cookbooks exist in the same universe as Better Homes and Gardens cookbooks, but the Sunset are vastly superior. Their gardening books are even better.
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely agree 100%.
Delete‘SO LETS TALK ABOUT COOKBOOKS’
ReplyDeleteOMFG! I love you for this post. I thought I was alone in the word but I have a twin soul.
I have a passion for pre-war cookery books. for the 1930’s my fave writer is Elizabeth Graig. Her books were very popular here in the UK and in the US.
You love Product merchandise booklets like me. I am not bothered that much by the product they are trying to sell but, Stork Margarine and McDougall’s flour are my focus simply because they were the booklets my mother used.
WHAT ARE YOUR FAVOURITE COOKBOOKS?
That is a very difficult question, I have 325 cookery books not including the ones waiting to be catalogued,
This is a random top 5 in no particular order; The list will be different every day that I am asked that question.
the Penguin cookery book Bee Nilson 1952
Egyptian Cooking a Practical Guide Samia Abdennour 1984
Sophia Loren's recipes & memories Sophia Loren 1998
Roux Brothers on Patisserie Roux Brothers 1986
English Food Jane Grison 1974
French Provincial Cooking Elizabeth David 1960
Cooking of South West France Paula Wolfert 1987
and of course we must not forget Mrs. K F Broughton who wrote the recipes for Jon’s favourite ‘Tower Pressure Cooker Recipes’
Ttfn
NICE! I"m still looking for an Elizabeth David to turn up - living so close to B.C. I've seen her cookbooks for years, except for now, of course, when I'm actually searching for them.
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ReplyDeleteThe Star Trek Cooking Manual! Please tell me it includes the recipe for plomeek soup and instructions on how to construct a Black Forest Gateau Enterprise (actual size).
And in other news: What is the biggest one in the world? What?!?
Oh, I don't have a favourite cookbook (I dislike making meals), but I do have a couple of 'most used' baking books: the Good Housekeeping Complete Book of Chocolate, and The Australian Women's Weekly Cakes & Slices Cookbook (oh, it actually is a cookbook. Fancy that.)
DeleteIT HAS TWO RECIPES FOR PLOMEEK SOUP. Not even kidding. And it's GOOD. So is Captain Kirks Chicken Sandwich (name that episode!)
DeleteI have so many Cookbooks one would think I actually Cook. Yours are really unusual ones tho' and I'd be fascinated what Recipes they hold?
ReplyDelete'mostly delicious' recipes. I won't own a cookbook if I wouldn't cook at least 3/4 of the stuff in it. Which is why you'll never find a German cookbook on my shelves. I said it.
DeletePS. Looking at Star Trek Cooking the Manual (1978) on Amazon selling around £98 to £128 I decided not to buy a copy, instead I have downloaded a PDF version from 'Internet Archive'
ReplyDeleteSunset's Kitchen Cabinet cookbook was not available to download.
Ttfn
It's not a culinary classic, but the recipes are good. Yes I read the whole thing online - and even cooked out of it! - and I still bought the book because TOS4LYF!
DeleteMy cookbooks are far too pedestrian for this group! In fact, I'm embarrassed to even list them! xoxo
ReplyDeleteI am intrigued savannah and you would be surprised at what I find interesting. Are you a Delia girl or a Nigella girl ?
DeleteGo on; show and tell.
Darling! I am in possession of a few of the lovely Nigella's cookbooks, also Ina and Lydia! The bookshelf also holds The Balthazar Restaurant cookbook, America's Test Kitchen, The Silver Palate cookbooks, chefs Ottolenghi, Patterson, Bourdain,and of course, Julia Childs Art of French Cooking! We have a lot more still packed in boxes! xoxo
DeleteBeing a pedant, I have to point out that it should be 'following Jesus this closely'. I went to a house hold sale and got a hundred year old cookbook for a couple of dollars. It is fascinating to read. It assumes that every kitchen had hired help.
ReplyDeleteWelcome to the machine, Debby! I liked your Maya Angelou quote - it was particularly relevant to my current situation. I would LOVE to run across a cookbook like that...a hundred years old - how does someone just sell that at a yard sale?!!
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