Yes! I have been just reading through it to expand my culinary knowledge, but I've referred to it often for "how to" on certain things in addition to recipes.

Now this is something up my alley! I have at least 1,000 cookbooks. I used to have one with recipes from Mary Lincoln but my ex MIL took it when her son left!

I have lots of vintage, some of which I still use.
The 1963 Betty Crocker cooky book, it still comes out for use.
A 70's Betty cook book
A 60's Mike Douglas
70's Better Homes & Gardens. assorted

I have a ton of the Pillsbury bake off little paperback books
Many regional cookbooks, even from Australia

I have a Readers Digest Creative Cooking which is great. It has recipes for every season and tells you what's in season. It has pictures of lots of fruits and veggies.

I also have a mass collection of HP books, most from the 70's and 80's. Do they even still publish books?

Most recipes are just a guideline for me, unless I'm trying something completely new. Sometimes I peruse them just to get new ideas for flavors or for a new idea.

My grandma gave me a subscription to Quick Cooking for many years so I have a lot of those laying around.
I don't even want to talk about the old Bon Appetite and Choclatier magazines in the garage! Of course I have'nt seen them for years so they shouldn't count, right:blush:

I've got a copy of two 16th century cookbooks. And excerpts from others. (And some I access online - mostly Italian.) Been meaning to pick up a few others - Huswife's Jewell and such.

I have a new Mediterranean cookbook that looks interesting, but I haven't had time to cook lately. I also have new Lebanese and Indian cookbooks that I have yet to test out. Hmmm....

I love the pictures in the Williams-Sonoma series. That's my food porn.

Too many to count (surprise, surprise)

I have a lot of 50's and 60's cookbooks,
A couple of 30's
and one really special one from the Queensland CWA (Country Womens Association) dated (I think) 1917 - I'm scanning it cos it's starting to crumble.

We have lots of cookbooks, new and classic. Too many to use productively, really. I also have a few old time cocktail recipe books that call up bygone eras of respectable dissipation.

Mmmm - The Gentleman's Companion, never had a better cocktail book

I Hate To Cook Book

My mom has a copy from the 60's-70's and I have a copy that was reprinted in the 90's. It is fun to read, and has some decent recipes. She talks about using wine in the recipies, but it is for the cook not the food.

I also have a few books I have picked up to enhance my baking addiciton, different cookie and sweets recipies.

Have you made any of the dishes? You undoubtedly know the late-medieval cookbook put together by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the 1970's. It was bread for a plate and stew with nutmeg or cinnamon, as I remember.

Is it actually Mike Douglas cooking or people who came on his show?

Really good, eh? amazon here I come ...

Actually, I wasn't familiar with those. There are apparently two from the Metropolitan Museum of Art - one from Richard II's time and one Elizabethan. (Incidentally, the Elizabethan era was a time of major culinary shift as well.)

I've made a bunch of the dishes from the one I have. Really tasty, actually. There are a number of things that are in the "regular" meal rotation.

I don't collect vintage cookbooks, but I do love the 40 or so that I do have. I do not cook out of them nearly as much as I would like since most of my cooking is for me.

I do swear by my Henry's Hunan cookbook (local SF Hunan place) and any of the Italian cookbooks I have (Marcella Hazan, Rao's and at least a dozen others).

I used to have the 1950's edition of the Better Homes & Gardens cookbook, I think this is the cookbook I learned how to make a caesar salad from (I remember the big picture of the wooden salad boat). A lot of what was in there was pretty scary as I recall.

I also cook regularly from Madhur Jaffrey's Vegetarian cooking and an Indian cookbook I can't recall the title.