WOW!
I'm impressed of how organized are you guys!
Being totally untidy (like many geniuses, of course
) I'm also pretty disorganized in storing my cookbooks and recipes...I mean iI haven't any classification system and my possibilities of finding what I'm looking for are entirely relied on my HUGE memory
Basically, I have a limited amount of "favourite" books (about 30) that are kept in my kitchen, in a bookshelf just close to the cooking area. Those are the books I consult for "usual"cooking, and I've read them so many times that I can find any recipe I need by memory.
As for the other (particularly for the funniest part of by collection, the foreign books I have purchased during my travels) they're kept in a separate section of our home bookcase, just close to my hubby's wine books
. Obviously my memory isn't SO huge I can find at the first attempt anything I'm looking for...but this is a good excuse for spending some nice time reading recipes and articles here and there!
About this point, I have a question for you. Like many readers, I read my favourite "normal" books many and many times. Nothing odd if the book is a novel or everything else having a literary value...but WHAT ABOUT cookbooks? I enjoy reading and reading again also my favourite cookbooks and magazine articles...is it a sign of mental insanity, or what? Maybe it isn't the right place where to ask for an answer
but other inputs are appreciated...
The third part of my collection are, as usual, the magazines, that are the main problem since, apart from my favourite copies of La Cucina Italiana which are in the bookcase, I keep them in cardboard boxes...so, finding a recipe there is something like going hunting in the African jungle.
As for my own recipes, I must admit that, although I usually write everything on my PC when working, I write all the recipes by hands on some old-fashioned exercise books. It is, maybe, the only thing I still write by hands...why? Well...I think it's because I love them-for the same reason why I would never write a love letter with a PC
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Pongi