My cookbook collection currently lives on a chrome rack with wheels at the feet. They are arranged by topic and I've put an example title next to each category. I have between 200-225 now. I realize there are some to which I refer on a regular basis like Joy (the OLD one...not the new one which I don't own) and some I grab for specific purposes, like the ethnic ones or the cake decorating ones. You don't have to use a book every day for it to be a good purchase. It's only got to be there when you need it to earn its place on the shelf. (Top Shelf books are not often used and are out of reach - regularly used books are more at eye level and a bit lower.)
Holidays - Gift How-To's...Gifts From Your Kitchen
Single Subject...Bread Alone
Definitive Guides...New Professional Chef
Yearbooks-School Publications...Cooking at the Academy
Multi-Volume Collections...Woman's Day Encyclopaedia of Cookery
Baking-Sweets-Cake Decorating...Gourmet's Best Desserts
Canning-Preserving...Putting Food By
Antiques-Sentimental...Dionne Lucas
Multi-Chef Compilations...Becoming A Chef
Ethnic-Regional...The Cuisine of Armenia
Single Chef Authors...Entertaining
Novelty-Cooking Related-Non-Recipe...Zagat Marketplace Guide
*My Woman's Day Encyclopaedia of Cookery was my mother's. You'd be surprised how good some of those old recipes are.  |