My mother has been back east, visiting my sister, for the past month. In her absence my food hoarding has gone unchecked and I have taken over one of her refrigerators and one of her freezers. Time to get cooking and get the stores back down to their one-fridge/freezer quantities before she gets back.
Despite my resolve to only have one bookshelf of cookbooks, I have recently acquired several new books and my collection is now spilling over into a second bookcase. Some were gifts or recommendations from friends but most were impulse buys thanks to the myriad of cooking shows and podcasts that I now watch or listen to regularly. I've also discovered that I can have almost unlimited cookbooks via my iPad, but e-cookbooks are decidedly less satisfying than their physical counterparts. There's nothing quite like seeing the books lined up on my shelf, pulling one out, leafing through the sections, turning to where the book naturally falls open from frequent use, pages warped from splattered ingredients.
Once in a while, I'll pull a cookbook from the shelf and make only recipes from that book for a week or two. I think I'm going to go with that plan for a while. It will give me a chance to explore some of my recent acquisitions, re-visit old favorites, and hopefully introduce my friends to some gems you may not be familiar with.
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