Cook book buying addiction?!

katieowl_2

zepsgal wrote: »

Yes, that helps :rotfl:

I don't know if there is a Works near me though, will have to get a google for it x

Noooooooooooooooo....the Works is the High Street equivalent of the Book people :rotfl:

Kate

mummybearx

Closest one is Glasgow city centre, Im not going away into town just for a 99p book lol

Cost me about £8 to park :rotfl:

catznine

Ok my name is Catznine and I am also addicted to cookbooks!
I have lost count, well actually too scared to count them :eek:but maybe around the 100 mark?

Some I am emotionally attached to as they were my Mums and remind me of my childhood and Mum!

I also love the retro books and have a small collection of some very old (and tatty) cookbooks, I tend to think if they look well used then the recipes must be good! Also the wartime cookbooks which I love and would never part with!

Then there are the new books written by the celebrity chefs which my kids buy for me, Jamie Oliver, Nigella Lawson etc.,

After that is the reliable Delia Smith! Quite a few of those!
Like many of you I have given in to temptation too often on The book peoples website.

My dh now insists on a 1 in 1 out rule but I am insisting that if I do that then he has to do the same with his sci fi! Don't think those bookshelves are going to get any lighter somehow!

Edited to say that I have now had a count up and got to 153 just on the downstairs shelves! That does include all the little leaflet type ones though! I have no idea which ones I could get rid off as I love them all!

Hadley

I'm starting to feel a little bad about the amount of cookbooks I have now.I have a few thousand of them but I am going to get rid of some soon.I also have loads of cooking magazines which I am going through at the moment I have just been through 10 years of bbc good food and taken out any recipes I want to try and recycled them.One thing I have now done to cut back on all the magazines coming into the house is get digital subscriptions for all my magazines which is a lot cheaper and easier now that borders is gone I was finding it harder and harder to get the American magazines I buy.

Hadley

Lostinrates which American ones are you looking for I may have them?

morganlefay

I got Dan lepard's baking book for Xmas and it is WONDERFUL. I read it in bed and drool, and sometimes i make things from it...oh dear.Two of my best books are a Good Housekeeping compendium which was my M-I-L's, dated about 1945. It has everything in it - dreadful paper, awful greyish pictures but every cake you've ever heard of (almost all decorated with glace cherries or dessicated coconut) and also my own Mum's loose leaf folder of random things - all very dated but most of them delicious. (In addition to the well-over 100 more modern books, of course)
And as others have said, there are worse addictions...

lally666young

Okay I gave in and went to the charity shop today and got one of my books as the other had gone and yes I was a bit miffed at one point!!!! So no Marcus Waring and yes Dutchy foods cookbook. So it was a bit of a result today!

wouldbeqaulitymoneysaver

I love Cookery Books and have amassed for myself quite a Collection. I consider it essential to have good recipes and also have my [growing] Online Collection on my Evernote for Iphone and Desktop.

Angel_Jenny

I love Gooseberry Patch books - I have a long list of them that I want!

I have 2 and they are fab - recipes and craft stuff. Have to adjust the recipes though as they are American.

I have Christmas All Through the House and All Through the Seasons. Such sweet gift and craft ideas in them.

Callie22

katieowl wrote: »

Noooooooooooooooo....the Works is the High Street equivalent of the Book people :rotfl:

Kate

We have Book People events at work ... fortunately the cook book stock they bring is quite limited but there have been times when I've indulged. I have to avoid the stall if I'm having a bad day!

I have a lot of cook books and it's getting bad now as I'm running out of room on my shelf. Lastest purchases include Dan Lepards book (which is fabulous, I love his writing and everything just works, which is brilliant - there's also a recipe for marzipanny bun things in there which are amazing), The Breakfast Book by Marion Cunningham (Amercian, lots of great recipes for 'breakfasty' type foods), and Plenty by Yotam Ottolenghi (I like his food, and I feel a bit guilty about the number of baking books on my shelf, so this is more vegetably and evens it out a bit). I got all of these from ebay or Amazon for really good prices, but I think I'm a bit addicted