Best selling cook books- How often do you buy one? (garden, Southern)

[no kudzu]

Originally Posted by Lost Roses

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.

Love allrecipes.com. If I see a recipe I like, I print it out then read all the reviews and make notes from the comments. I find it very interesting how 42 people will say it is the best xyz they ever made and then you have 15 who say it was garbage and they had to throw it out. I've gotten to the point I only try recipes which have reviews just to see what folks are adding or taking away. So much to learn this way.

[hunterseat]

I go online, I think you have the right idea. I have found one or two at thrift shops. I've also found some great Southern Living cookbooks that I LOVE the recipes in. <--preposition

Sorry about your eyes. Aren't there screens you can put over books/pages to enlarge the print?

[jambo101]

I have hundreds of cookbooks that i never use anymore, i just go online for recipes and creative ideas.

[no kudzu]

Originally Posted by hunterseat

I go online, I think you have the right idea. I have found one or two at thrift shops. I've also found some great Southern Living cookbooks that I LOVE the recipes in. <--preposition

Sorry about your eyes. Aren't there screens you can put over books/pages to enlarge the print?

I use a lighted magnifying glass out in public for menus and shopping but it usually only shows only one or two words which doesn't work for following a recipe. I also use my Nexus with magnified font in the kitchen but the best helpers I have are two 12 year old daughters who are learning to cook and use math every day by reading recipes to me and helping in the kitchen.

[coolgato]

Originally Posted by no kudzu

Love allrecipes.com. If I see a recipe I like, I print it out then read all the reviews and make notes from the comments. I find it very interesting how 42 people will say it is the best xyz they ever made and then you have 15 who say it was garbage and they had to throw it out. I've gotten to the point I only try recipes which have reviews just to see what folks are adding or taking away. So much to learn this way.

I love allrecipes and they have a magazine of their own now. I also love any publications from Taste of Home. Allrecipes and Taste of Home specialize in real people recipes, not a big name chef or a Martha Stewart type, but recipes from regular people who cook and bake. I love that right next to the recipes they will have the name of the person who originated it, and of course, the reviews they are so interesting to read. I do find it funny too when you have some people who loved a recipe and others who hated it, plus also you have some that tweaked the recipe and changed it a bit, making it more healthy or accommodating some ingredient that can't be found in a store, etc. I still have my recipe books - the standard classics like Joy of Cooking and specialty ones like cupcakes, pasta, etc., but since the Internet, things have changed with my buying habit - I do see that I'm buying less cookbooks. Sometimes I just like to read recipes and cook them up in my head - I guess that's why they call it food porn LOL

[coolgato]

Originally Posted by Lauriedeee

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.

I do love vintage recipes from the 1950s and 1960s, too! They may be thought of as less healthier because of all the sugar, fat, butter, and other ingredients that people like to keep to a minimum, but think of this - people in those days were a lot healthier and thinner than people these days living in a health conscious world: non-gluten this that, sugar-free, fat-free, etc.

[mainebrokerman]

Originally Posted by Sage 80

Never.

It's so easy to find thousands of great recipes online--for free. Why would I buy a book?

this was my first thought, but then what would people sell at lawn-sales??

what would be kinda cool is to make your own cooking videos and place them on a youtube page (unlisted, if you want) and its a time capsule you can pass down to your kids and grandkids- something they can reference when they want

imagine having our grandmothers on video cooking and could reference that anytime -


or someone could come up with an online site called cook-book specifically for family tree cooking reference - maybe its already out there-

[momtothree]

Never. I haven't bought one since I discovered coming shows and online resources.

[thedwightguy]

The Auberge of the Flowering Hearth; it was a Book of the Month club selection, written by a blind journalist who travelled throughout France writing about his rural country food trips. If you can find the book it's a real treat; a cookbook disguised as a novel masquerading as a travel trip. 1970. I haven't read anything since that tops it.

[Atlanta_BD]

I love to buy cookbooks and I get recipes from online. I also like getting recipe cards from the grocery store. I simply love collecting recipes from various sources. And I just love a good cookbook. I guess you could say I like to collect them.