I go through my cookbooks once a year, and get brutal; if I haven't looked at a book in the last year, it goes! unless it has sentimental value, of course!I have several autographed books which i don't really use, but keep on hand remembering the chats I had as they were signed. I donate the books to the Vo-Tech school down the road, for their culinary program; to our local library, and to friends and co-workers.
Magazines - If I kept all my mags, there would be no room to walk in my house! I wait til I have a few months accumulated, and then sit down on a rainy day, clip the recipes/ideas I want to save, and put them on my recipe software program.
I have two bookshelves - one in the dining room, which has all the 'working' books, sorted loosely by category - baking, ethnic, seafood, vegetarian, etc. Then in the living room (which has one wall of bookshelves!), I have all my reference books and 'general' food books.
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