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I haven't purchased a traditional cookbook in years. However, I give this book to lots of friends. It is more than a cookbook, it is about friendship and Southern cooking traditions.
It's so easy to find thousands of great recipes online--for free. Why would I buy a book?
Of course, you can find a recipe for anything online, but frequently the online recipes are self serving and commercially driven. Also, they are frequently not tested recipes, so an inexperienced cook would not have success, and it would not be her fault.
There is a place for time tested cookbooks. As in anything else in life, there is quality and there is everything else.
I love buying cookbooks when I travel. When I travel domestically, I try and find the local Junior League Cookbook. It is usually the best however I'm also known to buy cookbooks from favorite, iconic restaurants.
My all time favorite is Charleston Receipts. It was first published in 1950 and has my relatives in it.
I love buying cookbooks when I travel. When I travel domestically, I try and find the local Junior League Cookbook. It is usually the best however I'm also known to buy cookbooks from favorite, iconic restaurants.
My all time favorite is Charleston Receipts. It was first published in 1950 and has my relatives in it.
I probably have a cookbook for every cuisine in the world. Recently I bought a Sri Lankan cookbook and a Cambodian cookbook at a store in San Francisco that exclusively specializes in cookbooks.
Of course, you can find a recipe for anything online, but frequently the online recipes are self serving and commercially driven. Also, they are frequently not tested recipes, so an inexperienced cook would not have success, and it would not be her fault.
There is a place for time tested cookbooks. As in anything else in life, there is quality and there is everything else.
You state "everything else" as if I'm cooking up some crap from the back of a can. You don't even know what recipes I use, yet you think you can judge my choice as inferior to yours.
I have lots of the standard cookbooks, and they're great. I refer to them from time to time for things I don't make often. I'm an excellent and experienced cook, and do not really need lots of new cookbooks because I build on the knowledge that I've gained in my 30+ years of cooking.
On the occasions that I prepare foods outside of my repertoire, I would not buy new cookbooks because I try the recipes of my favorite chefs. These are chefs whose recipes I've tried over the years and never been disappointed with. So I see nothing wrong with continuing with that. It works for me.
You would do well to check your superior attitude.
My cookbooks date from the early days of my marriage and include a couple of Junior League cookbooks which are excellent. In later years when I (briefly!) followed the South Beach Diet I bought that cookbook. Nowadays I use allrecipes.com and have found lots of ones I like. The reviews of each recipe are invaluable and I love how people change up the recipe for the better and post their results.
I have soooo many cook books but the one's I use most are from the 50's and early 60's because I enjoy making foods from scratch.
Mostly though I rely on the internet for recipes because I can get many different recipes for the same dish and I find the reviews very helpful. The last cookbook I bought recently, which I can't even call a cook book, but more like a little cooking magazine had slow cooker recipes in it, and that was an impulse purchase when I was standing online at the check out counter.
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