Wow! I am impressed! 1000 cookbooks! :snap:

My tried and true Popover recipe is from there - although popovers are pretty basic. I've taken some classes from Ed Brown. He's a wonderful guy, a great teacher and a Buddhist monk.

I used to make bread quite frequently. The El Fornaio Bread Book is also really good for those lovely crispy on the outside, warm and soft on the inside loafs.

I have a tad more time today, but still no titles. <sigh>

I just like cookbooks. I've recently started thinning my collection. I got rid of many cake books that I had.
I dont bake much anymore, and I dont work in chocolate, what did I need them all for?

I have a ton of the point of sale pillsbury and such books... esp the Kid ones, and the Halloween. If you show me food made into a spider on the cover, I will more than likely buy it.

I believe my Betty Crocker book is from 1960, and at times I swear by the Better homes and Gardens.
But beyond that... Emril and Alton and Rachel, if they wrote a book, I have it.
101 ways to Make..... Have it.

I used to get a ton of use out of What to Cook when there is Nothing in the House to Eat.
And the Frugal Gourmet books are very well used....
What else, what else... Binders full of clippings.....

Yours is a life well spent, Ponine. :)

Last summer, a friend lent us her house in Wyoming while she was in Alaska. She's a chef and her house has many, many cookbooks. Shelves and shelves of cookbooks and all her binders of notes from the culinary institute she went to (in Rhode Island? or was it Massachusetts?) She had recently sold her own successful café and had written a cookbook of those recipes.

Anyway, of all the houses to summer in, the house of a chef ain't a bad choice.

That sounds like a wonderful place to spend a summer!! Did you get some great recipes from her collection? I would have spent my time browsing her books and playing in the kitchen!

The Mike Douglas book is guests from the show. I love the old photos too. My Mom was a fan of his.