Inventory

[jducoeur]

It's always a little scary when hobbies coincide -- in this case, cooking and biblioholism. (And the SCA.)

msmemory and I just inventoried the cookbook collection, so that we don't buy any duplicates while we're at Pennsic. It comes to something over 230 volumes, not counting dupes. 140 of them are more or less on the subject of historical cooking. (Defining "historical" as roughly "pre-20th century".)

Not that we've actually used more than a quarter of those, mind. But they're so much fun to just wander aimlessly through. And one of them is a bibliography of pre-1800 cookbooks in English, so I sense another visit to the microfilm library in my future...

Comments

[tpau]

watcha doing witht the duplicates?

[ladysprite.livejournal.com]

Okay, fine, you beat me. :P I'm not sure how many cookbooks I have, but I'm fairly certain it's not above 200.

On the other hand, I selflessly volunteer to take on the onerous task of sheltering your duplicates...

Crazed for Cookbooks

[cristovau.livejournal.com]

I don't like cooking and don't eagerly collect cookbooks, yet somehow, I have two shelves of them. Through gifts, inheritance and a few what-was-I-thinking shopping sprees they wound up here. So, I understand why you wound up with duplicates. They seem to reproduce when we blink.

And rest assured, I'm not interested in duplicates.

[matildalucet.livejournal.com]

OK, now I'm intimidated. I'm trying out recipes on people with more cookbooks than I'm comfortable imagining. Perhaps that explains some of the more helpful criticism.

I do not want dupes, either. I'm trying to weed out my recipe and cookbook collection. Sadly, many of the recipes I collected (but didn't try) through the years actually taste pretty good.

[snarkyman.livejournal.com]

Christine and I may be interested in the duplicates.

You beat us!

[dagonell.livejournal.com]

To think we used to impress people by saying we had six feet of shelf devoted to just medieval cookbooks. Ah, you *are* going to give your duplicates to your evil twin, aren't you? :D
-- Dagonell