Cookbooks

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Meme Update:
Chubby Hubby twists my arm in comments.

OK here we go ahm meme thingy. Post a picture of you cookbooks and answer the following questions that I'll make up now and ask myself -

1. Rationale behind what we're seeing?
Sorted by height with mags getting the heave ho into the pantry or "the reading room". Try to get one general cookbook per genre but can't resist French and Japanese cookbooks. I'm cheap so I love second-hand books and try to shy away from celebrity books (unless Frank Black were to do one)
2. Most recommended?
Not the wind beneath your wings but will help avoid a lot of novelty specialising - Essentials of Cooking by James Peterson. All you'll need to know for Western style cuisine.
3. Cookbook that made you what you were?
Le Cordon Bleu at Home. My first cookbook when I was at University. Kind of set a standard while at the same time being completely accessible.
4. Porniest cookbook?
While I do find the Culinaire France highly arousing, it's also quite functional so not porny. Cold Appetisers gets to be hidden in the heat vent because it's fabulous and I've never actually cooked anything out of it as it's the master of the unobtainable ingredient.
5. Sophie's Choice cookbook?
Little blue notebook on the furthest point left with all my scribbly little recipes in it in a time before blogging.
6. If you were a cookbook, which cookbook would you be?
Ha! Twat!

and for Santos
7. If your cookbook we're extremely valuable, so valuable you might hide it with other valuables, where would that place be?
....under the Big W


Hmmm now I feel all demystified. Actually you could just post a pic and we'll speculate. Whatever. Now ermm meme away, go meme, go!

Flickr pool: check!

Meme! Meme! :
-Stephanie! Dispensing Happiness: Joining the 'Fun'.
-And the Ra! Ra! Cookbooks pool is going nuts. Books! Models!
-Chubby Hubby! has a great mountain of cookbooks
- Sylvie! at Food- Got To Love It
- Bramble! crosses the barriers at akatsuki talks rot: My cookbooks
- Santos! is hot with book 'em and cook 'em
- Jeanne! tart's with tops on at -Cook sister!: Read 'em and eat
- Andrew! Yes it does at Spittoon - Cookbooks.
- Nicky! bathtubs at delicious:days - On Cookbooks
- Alan! sorted but loose at ma'ona: Cookbooks
- Elizabeth! is bandwagonesque at blog from OUR kitchen : Cookbooks Meme
- Kitchen Queens! has consumer psy-ops in Something's cooking: Cookbooks galore
- Cenzina! invito tutti i cibo-blogger italiani...il cavoletto di bruxelles: Libri di ricette!
- Crafty! knicker draw at Craftapalooza: Porniest Cookbook
- Paul! has the anti-cookbok at Food Blog
- Kitchemage! reach out and grabya at kitchenmage: Cookbook Meme
- Lara! Dragon(shaggin?)wagon at cheap veggie gourmet: Jumping on a Meme
- Lyn! meet Russ at Lex Culinaria: Spiceblog's cookbook meme: the cookbooks of a crazy intercontinental jet-setter
- Jennifer! dreams of some kind electronic brain for the kitchen with Taste Everything Once: Cookbook Meme 2005
Sue! no way a kitchen spaz at Snackish.
Petula! la cucina bruta atla cuoca petulante: Un libro di cucina come una fiaba


Attention! : This is a self -activating meme. Consider yourself invited.