“It was something of a shock that I woke up one morning and found myself a collector of cookery books. I am not sure which seemed the more extraordinary, – that there should be cookery books to collect, or that I should be collecting them.” Elizabeth Robins Pennell
This was so fun to read. My guess was two hundred cookbooks and food-related books. I am sure I’m under-estimating that number, and now you’ve inspired me to face the truth and catalog them.
I love that you not only collect cook books but books about cookbooks! I agree wholeheartedly that cookbooks reflect our culture, our social history and are historical records. They can also be very sentimental - I love to see notes my late husband wrote in his cookbooks.
Have you read Feast: A History of Grand Eating by Roy Strong? Sorry to your groaning bookshelves.
This was so fun to read. My guess was two hundred cookbooks and food-related books. I am sure I’m under-estimating that number, and now you’ve inspired me to face the truth and catalog them.
I love that you not only collect cook books but books about cookbooks! I agree wholeheartedly that cookbooks reflect our culture, our social history and are historical records. They can also be very sentimental - I love to see notes my late husband wrote in his cookbooks.
Have you read Feast: A History of Grand Eating by Roy Strong? Sorry to your groaning bookshelves.
I haven't read it but now I'm going to have to look it up!