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When was the last time you pulled every single cookbook off the shelf and culled down the number? I just did and fully half of them are going into the library book sale pile.
Some of them were a bit of a surprise to me that I had no desire to hang on to them any longer, some of them I forgot I owned! My Silver Palate cookbook is heading for the giveaway pile. The only recipe I used from that was the Chicken Marbella. Also found some mini-cookbooks that were give-aways back in teh '80s with the purchase of Benson & Hedges cigarettes, thanks to my 2-pack-a-day mother. One of those I'm keeping because it has a good-looking curry recipe in it.
Paul Prudhomme didn't make the cut, either, and I've got the Coyote Cafe Cookbook in the "take another spin thru & then decide" pile.
What made the cut for me? Julia Child's "The Way to Cook" (I recommend it often to others), Joy of Cooking, Good Housekeeping, Virginia Hospitality, Cake Bible, a Middle Eastern cookbook, a Southern Living desserts cookbook, and a few others.
I've never gotten rid of any and I can't remember the last time I used one. When I try a recipe I like that'll go into rotation I write it on an index card and keep it in my recipe box.
Funny about SP chix Marbella - my sister gave me that book with that recipe marked. She used to make it.
When was the last time you pulled every single cookbook off the shelf and culled down the number? I just did and fully half of them are going into the library book sale pile.
Some of them were a bit of a surprise to me that I had no desire to hang on to them any longer, some of them I forgot I owned! My Silver Palate cookbook is heading for the giveaway pile. The only recipe I used from that was the Chicken Marbella. Also found some mini-cookbooks that were give-aways back in teh '80s with the purchase of Benson & Hedges cigarettes, thanks to my 2-pack-a-day mother. One of those I'm keeping because it has a good-looking curry recipe in it.
Paul Prudhomme didn't make the cut, either, and I've got the Coyote Cafe Cookbook in the "take another spin thru & then decide" pile.
What made the cut for me? Julia Child's "The Way to Cook" (I recommend it often to others), Joy of Cooking, Good Housekeeping, Virginia Hospitality, Cake Bible, a Middle Eastern cookbook, a Southern Living desserts cookbook, and a few others.
What stays or goes for you?
I am like a Marine and his/her weapon.........you will get my cookbooks out of my cold dead hands and not before.....LOL
I volunteer sorting book donations at a local thrift store. Cookbooks are the #2 item donated, with religious books being in the top spot (it's the south!). I guess everybody has figured out what I realized a while back, all recipes can be found online.
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I don't really use my cookbooks anymore other than for holiday meals. I still refer back to some of my 1960s era cookbooks for that. I still love to collect them.
Meta Given's Modern Encylopedia of Cooking, volumes I and II, Bread Alone, another bread book, a pressure cooker book, a Two Fat Ladies cookbook since it was a wedding gift and a decorative one with really pretty pictures and really over the top recipes that I'll never use but like to look at. If the Meta Givens books are counted as two, that's a total of seven cookbooks. That's pretty much enough so I never buy any more.
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and I can't remember the last time I used one. When I try a recipe I like that'll go into rotation I write it on an index card and keep it in my recipe box. 
