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1Bcteagirl
Avr 15, 2011, 11:29 pm

Feel free to add your own!

You know you are addicted to cookbooks when...

You sort cookbooks by 'publication date' at an online bookstore so that you can see what is coming out in 2012.

You add cookbooks coming out in 2012 to your growing wishlist.

2MrsLee
Avr 17, 2011, 2:12 am

You don't even look at recipes much to cook anymore, but still browse and buy cookbooks to read.

3SuseGordon
Avr 18, 2011, 9:10 pm

You buy cookbooks based on the food in a restaurant that you would like to eat (not cook!)

4d_perlo
Avr 19, 2011, 4:39 pm

Your favorite drinking game has to do with taking a drink every time a recipe (pre 1975 books) calls for MSG, canned cream of anything soup, canned meat, or gelatin.

5SuseGordon
Avr 19, 2011, 6:22 pm

or mayonnaise as my nieces & their husbands abhor!

6MrsLee
Avr 21, 2011, 11:07 am

#4 - LOL! That wouldn't be a very long game! :)

7momsib
Avr 22, 2011, 6:29 am

You join the "friends of the public library" group just so you can get the first look at the donated cookbooks on friends-only night.

8booklover3258
Avr 23, 2011, 8:56 pm

you are at a booksale and go straight to the cookbooks and try to find the most strange or weirdest cookbooks you can find...

9DFED
Avr 27, 2011, 11:54 am

it's a regular habit to read (but not necessarily cook from) cookbooks!

10lemonfluffable
Mai 11, 2011, 3:47 pm

You buy them JUST to look at the pretty pictures. :)

11MrsLee
Mai 12, 2011, 4:13 am

#10 - May I just say, I love your user name?

12SuseGordon
Mai 12, 2011, 1:02 pm

Ooooohhhh! I "second" #11 on #10's name!!! I wouldn't have noticed, except for that comment - made my day brighter reading it :)

13kerrlm
Mai 12, 2011, 3:14 pm

You loan one and despair of getting it back soon enough, so buy another copy on the net! just did that---

14SuseGordon
Mai 12, 2011, 8:10 pm

You buy extras for everyone in the family for when they grow up and move-out on their own... even if they are years from that!

15MrsLee
Mai 15, 2011, 8:48 pm

#15 - LOL, I've done that!

16Thrin
Modifié : Mai 16, 2011, 6:09 pm

>14 SuseGordon: and 15 - Me too. Especially Complete Perfect Recipes (Silly title unless you know the history) by David Herbert.

17JohannainTopeka
Mai 20, 2011, 5:10 pm

Just looking at your shelves full of cookbooks is comforting.

18MrsLee
Mai 30, 2011, 5:28 am

When you don't cook very often, your husband can't eat spicy things, but you still buy a cookbook called Curry Cuisine because the photos are lovely, it has histories of food and the recipes will be mouthwatering to read.

19Violette62
Mai 30, 2011, 7:43 pm

when you have over 450 and you keep buying them.

20PhaedraB
Mai 30, 2011, 8:53 pm

When you can't bear to get rid of the recipe pamphlet that came with the appliance you no longer own.

21SuseGordon
Mai 31, 2011, 11:41 am

#20 - oooo, that's bad.... :)

22Katroo
Juin 2, 2011, 12:45 am

Your bedside table has a pile of cookbooks but no novels.

23JohannainTopeka
Modifié : Juin 2, 2011, 11:33 am

22 Amen to that.

24kakin75
Juil 13, 2011, 4:47 pm

Your friends go to estate sales and yard sales and bring back cookbooks for you!

25Tess_W
Août 21, 2011, 9:04 am

You still have some cooking magazines from 1990!

26hfglen
Août 21, 2011, 11:47 am

... or bound ones from 1967.

27ACrain
Oct 16, 2011, 8:40 pm

Your friends call you for a recipe instead of searching on Google. And you are a lifetime member on the eatyourbooks.com website.

28leahbird
Oct 17, 2011, 10:19 am

#27 by ACrain> i must be using the "wrong" cookbooks, because eatyourbooks.com doesn't have most of them indexed. i've requested indexing, but it hasn't happened yet.

29PaulineHarding
Oct 29, 2011, 1:17 am

When you say to yourself 'I will have to buy yet another bookshelf for my cookbooks'.

30elenasimona
Oct 29, 2011, 5:21 am

...when you start to arrange your cookbooks by type so you can find the wanted one easier.

31MarthaJeanne
Oct 29, 2011, 5:27 am

You think most of these things are just normal - Doesn't everyone have 500 or so cookbooks organized by topic, and keep buying more?

32danieljayfriedman
Nov 3, 2011, 8:25 pm

You discover that you have three copies of Julie Sahni's Classic Indian Vegetarian and Grain Cooking.

33dajashby
Nov 19, 2011, 7:17 pm

#32
Why?

34danieljayfriedman
Nov 24, 2011, 9:43 am

AND three copies of Madhur Jaffrey's Invitation to Indian Cooking. Why? I have more cookbooks than shelves, so some cookbooks are boxed somewhat randomly, only to be rediscovered years later. I realize that this could be solved by a combination of improved organizational skills, more shelves, and a better memory. In any case, both Jaffrey's Invitation to Indian Cooking and Sahni's Indian Vegetarian and Grain Cooking are wonderful.

35wester
Nov 24, 2011, 10:09 am

#32, 34: Why don't you join BookMooch? Stuff both those books into an international flat rate envelope, send them to me ;-), have 6 points to get 6 other books.

36MaureenRoy
Modifié : Jan 25, 2012, 4:08 pm

When you seriously consider setting up an index (ingredients by recipe by book by page number) in order to find all your recipes for nabe, for pumpkin, for carrot cake, whatever. ...Ohhh I just read down the page and found the Eatyourbooks site. I will check that out.

37IdRatherBeInFrance
Jan 26, 2012, 5:25 pm

When you move, you have just as many boxes for your cookbooks as you do for everything else in the kitchen (or more!).

Why do books have to be so HEAVY?!?!

38LenaLoves
Avr 26, 2012, 10:02 am

When your ideal birthday and Christmas gifts are bookshelves...because nobody can buy you books anymore, you already have most of them.

39Silkhat
Mai 31, 2012, 12:00 am

#36 Indybooks

I have already created a database just like that so now I can go straight to the cookbook when I want a patricular recipe or ingredients.

Neil

40soror_peregrina
Juin 6, 2012, 4:24 pm

When you want a particular recipe and KNOW you have the cookbook, but then you can't find it, so you buy another one. Then you buy a second copy, just to make sure you never lose it again. Of course, that's when the first copy shows up, so now you have three... and you're very happy to have all of them.

41LenaLoves
Août 21, 2012, 7:07 pm

When people just unload all the cookbooks they have on your desk at work, and the notes they leave say "I have never touched this, it's yours."

42wester
Août 22, 2012, 3:18 am

When you move house, and the first thing you unpack is a bookcase full of cookbooks.

43MarthaJeanne
Modifié : Août 22, 2012, 3:36 am

You donate several of the cookbooks you never use to the local library because you really don't have space for more than two tall bookcases of cookbooks, and you need space for the most recent acquisitions.

And one of the pile that you take to the computer to mark as no longer owned ends up back on the shelf - even though you have never cooked out of it, and know you never will. (But it is exactly the cookbook you needed 20 years ago, which counts for something. Doesn't it?)

44mandymarie20
Août 23, 2012, 3:25 am

You adore cookbooks, but have no appetite.

Sadly, this is true. Darn that summer heat!

45ACrain
Modifié : Oct 22, 2012, 11:48 pm

leahbird #27 >Eat your books Is getting better. Cataloging more books, Have you noticed. They are including online sites with recipes .

46chefbobbe
Mai 14, 2013, 11:56 pm

How did you know?!

47WUVIE
Mai 17, 2014, 9:34 pm

Love this post! Thanks for the giggle!

48mnleona
Modifié : Mai 14, 2018, 6:53 am

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