I use exactly one recipe from Moosewood and keep it around mostly for nostalgia's sake. And Vegetarian Epicure omg! I have to dig that out of whatever box it's living in at present.
I have a real fondness for The Fanny Farmer Cookbook (the newer edition) as an artifact, since both parents' families were rural people (that sounds strange, given that FF is a Boston Cooking School thing originally, but it's got a very retro country feel to it). The newfangled companion Baking Book gets used a lot more, though. Also, if you're the type who grooves on reference books that happen to include recipes, I recommend the English translation of the Larousse Gastronomique. I love love love it.
The cookbook I use most, though, is the speckled notebook that's coming apart at the seams because I've pasted so many things into it from so many sources, in no particular order. Talk about artifacts.
Much love for this post. Cookbooks, yay!
PS: I have a copy of Every Thing A Woman Ought To Know, circa sometime in the 19th century, bought for me by an antic friend on one of her Portobello Road trawls. Very interesting food-shopping tips.
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I have a real fondness for The Fanny Farmer Cookbook (the newer edition) as an artifact, since both parents' families were rural people (that sounds strange, given that FF is a Boston Cooking School thing originally, but it's got a very retro country feel to it). The newfangled companion Baking Book gets used a lot more, though. Also, if you're the type who grooves on reference books that happen to include recipes, I recommend the English translation of the Larousse Gastronomique. I love love love it.
The cookbook I use most, though, is the speckled notebook that's coming apart at the seams because I've pasted so many things into it from so many sources, in no particular order. Talk about artifacts.
Much love for this post. Cookbooks, yay!
PS: I have a copy of Every Thing A Woman Ought To Know, circa sometime in the 19th century, bought for me by an antic friend on one of her Portobello Road trawls. Very interesting food-shopping tips.