What does your cookbook shelf look like?

[Potkettleblack]

You’re funny with this shelf stuff. I have display cookbooks in the front room, I have two shelves in the study/guest bedroom and I have about six on a chair in the kitchen.

lets see:
modernist Cuisine at home
im just here for the food - Alton Brown
Sauces - Peterson
1080 recipes - Simone and Ines Ortega
on Food and Cooking - Harold McGee
The Carnivore’s Manifesto - Patrick Martins
Meathead
Milk Street - Christopher Kimball
Flour Water Salt Yeast - Forkish
BBQ Bible Sauces Rubs & Marinades - Raichlen
joy of cooking 75th
Food Lab - Kenji
The Laws of Cooking - Justin Warner
Fat - McLagan
complete Meat Cookbook - Aidells & Kelly
The Silver Spoon
Lucky Peach 101 Easy Asian Recipes
How to Grill - Raichlen
BBQ Bible - Raichlen
Project Smoke - Raichlen
Chili Madness - Jane Butel
Bacon Nation - Kaminsky & Rama
Betty Crocker’s Cookbook - Bridal Edition
Ruhlman’s Charcuterie book, Ratio book and 20 book
few others that are the wife’s and more stuff in my kindle account. And a NYTimes subscription which comes with thousands of recipes.

[EdF]

How's the Milk St one?

[Potkettleblack]

Sorry, EdF. I thought I wrote a response.

It’s an interesting book as the focus is on big, exotic flavor in "simple" cooking. Already changed my pantry a bit, with whole nutmeg replacing ground. I’m excited to cook some things from it.

[EdF]

Thanks Potkettleblack . Sounds like my kind of style.

[jlazar]

Almost all of these are Kindle or IBook versions. Only a couple of hardcopies.

Meathead - Meathead Goldwyn
The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science – J. Kenji Lopez-Alt
Franklin Barbecue – Aaron Franklin & Jordan MacKay
Weber’s Smoke – Jamie Purviance
Big Bob Gibson’s BBQ Book – Chris Lilly
Paul Kirk’s Championship Barbecue Sauces – Paul Kirk
Smokin’ in the Boy’s Room: Southern Recipes from the Winningest Woman in Barbecue – Melissa Cookston
Smokin’ with Myron Mixon: Backyard ‘Cue Made Simple from the Winningest Man in Barbecue – Kelly Alexander & Myron Mixon
Project Smoke – Steven Raichlen
The Wood Pellet Smoker and Grill Cookbook – Peter Jautaikis
America’s Test Kitchen TV Complete Book 2015 – Ametica’s Test Kitchen
Bobby Flay’s Burgers, Fries and Shakes – Bobby Flay, Sally Jackson and Stephanie Banyas
Steak Lover’s Cookbook – William Rice
Don Strange of Texas: His Life and Recipes – Frances Strange and Tracey Maurer
Ribs, Chops, Steaks and Wings – Ray "Dr. BBQ" Lampe and Leigh Beisch

[Willy]

Here's mine--minus about three feet of "lesser" books. I've been doing this for about 30 years:

[EdF]

As Sims department store used to say "An educated consumer is our best customer"! Roll on, Pit!

[Cheef]

My wife collection consists mostly of hand me downs from her Grandmother who raised her. A LOT of church - 4H - and community cook books from the 50's, 60's, and 70's. Some of them are old farm woman recipes that our family LOVES.
One of the most interesting is Grannies (my wifes GrandMother) personal journal that she used when she was a young farm wife in the 20's and 30's. Recipes and reminders on how and what to cook for the custom cutter crews who worked harvest for her folks. Friends--that was a hard life, and a mark of pride for a farm woman to be noted for her cooking. Wood burning stove, and 3 meals a day for a dozen working men made her the hardest worker on the farm from what I can read.

[HouseHomey]

Very well,said sir!!!!

[Henrik]

So cool. Respect!

[HouseHomey]

Love this thread!!

[Cheef]

A side note and off topic but an interesting fact.
This article was written by one of Grannies good friends.
Three years in a row and on the same day each year. Personally I would have been leaving town the 4th year.
Granny's Father was the banker in this small community. 1918 wiped his business out and he went back to farming.

https://sites.google.com/view/Codell-Kansas-Tornadoes/1918-tornado/cyclone-day-1918

[Mr. Bones]

She tells a great story, thanks fer sharin', amigo!

[Deaf Arty]

What a great thread! Got me to looking at the books we have. Some we've had for almost 50 years -- they were wedding gifts, and get used regularly still. Others are newer, but get used just as much (think Meathead). Then there's the yellow three-ring binder that is full of hand-written recipes compiled over the years from friends and potlucks and newspapers -- yellowed pages and all. It's falling apart. If we ever lost that, we'd go hungry except for BBQ!

[Potkettleblack]

How is Everyday Cook?

[Deaf Arty]

It's pretty good, Potkettleblack. It's a compilation of AB's favorite tools, condiments/spices, and recipes. If you like his stuff, I think you'll like this one.

[Henrik]

What a great thread indeed! Didn't realize there would be so many responses, but I love seeing all members' shelves. Lots of good reading piling up!

[Sgt Tyree]

Henrik ; Thanks Henrik. I told my wife about this thread this morning and it gave her the motivational idea that I should organize and sort all my books, make a pile for donations, and dust shelves today. Did find a 5 dollar bill that I evidently used as a book mark though so the day isn't totally shot. Didn't tell her about that.

[Henrik]

Ha ha! Good story!

[EdF]

LOL! Sharp one!

[JCGrill]

Lord, what a question. I have 5 floor to ceiling bookshelves. Most are not cookbooks, but that room looks like a bomb went off in it, so here's the best photo I can get.

I see several things that are similar to the rest of you. I have several e-books as well. The internet is my most often used cookbook though.

[EdF]

I tend that way myself these days.

[Potkettleblack]

How old is that Better Homes? Font makes it look maybe 80’s.

[JCGrill]

Potkettleblack Christmas 1960. Mrs inherited it from her mother.

[phrogpilot73]

I have one or two. My wife says I have too many - but she did set up this nice bookcase for me, and has bought me one or two since she said that. Maybe she's changed her mind?

[EdF]

Maybe you're doing a good job earning your keep with your cooking!

[Potkettleblack]

Get a lot of use out of LaRousse? Recipes or techniques or approach?

[phrogpilot73]

LaRousse was a gift from my Dad when I graduated from Culinary School. He was very excited for me. It mainly sits there and looks pretty. Every now and then, I pull it out and look something up - but it's definitely not a go-to.

[Reds Fan 5]

Henrik Cool thread. We have a few more scattered on other shelves but these are our go-to cookbooks. This whole grilling/smoking adventure started with Raichlen. I know it isn't grilling/smoking but I highly recommend the Bayless book.

[johnec00]

What a nifty thread, I've seen a couple I will have to get!

Here's mine (bottom shelf, upper shelf is some other of my "stuff")

[HawkerXP]

Also, please forgive me if I am wrong, but that shelf unit looks homemade. Sort of like what I made my parents in high school.@johnec00

[johnec00]

HawkerXP The engine is a 726 Berkshire, 1947 vintage. The crane is #2460. These are a couple of pieces from Lionel sets that I have refurbished from my childhood. Oh, and the shelf unit is one I made for my daughter's bedroom in the mid 1980's

[HawkerXP]

I have my Dads and oldest brother's Lionel. I have added to the collection thanks to ebay. Trying to stay with post war or earlier pieces. Show me more if you want. I unfortunately have packed most away recently. Working on the mess in the basement.

[ribeyeguy]

I once posted a picture of our spice/seasoning drawer that looked like this:



There's no way I'm going to post a picture of our cookbook shelf. The spice drawer is neat and tidy compared to the bookshelf.

[lonnie mac]

I honestly don't have a cookbook collection. I do print TON'S of recipes from the tubes, but my only actual cookbook goes back a ways.

[vandy]

And well used as it should be, right!

[BKYDBBQ]

Here are mine...the two on the right are cookbooks my mom and grandmother did years ago...I also have a number of recipes saved in word docs on my computer and I've started writing down favorite recipes on index cards. My cooks also get recorded on index cards...