Do you love to read recipe books?

[Zade]

I love to read cookbooks! I have lots of them and also like to check them out from the library. Some of my favorites are the kind that have stories about the food or information about the ingredients. I especially like to read the cookbooks put out by small country churches as fundraisers or compiled by families and full of the memories that go along with various foods.

[Jen319164]

I am not a fan of reading recipe books but you know i read them when i need well a recipe

[JenniferBoyce]

The book that really got me started on recipe books was "Cooking with Italian Grandmothers"; the combination of story and recipes really appealed to me (apparently there is a whole genre of books just catering to that). Not only was the book itself interesting but the recipes within the book were fantastic! I read the book cover to cover and tried (almost) all of the recipes.

After that I began collecting cookbooks. Friends gave me old ones that they weren't using and I purchased some for myself. I found myself really enjoying being able to page through and scan the recipes; there's something so appealing about just being able to flip pages and decide what to cook. Yet I find that I get most of my actual recipes from the internet. It's just easier for me to prop my laptop up in the kitchen than a bulky cookbook (plus the thought of getting food on a book terrifies me but getting food on my laptop doesn't worry me).

[dlachance9]

My boyfriend does! It always makes me laugh to see a cookbook sitting on his nightstand when I've got a stack of novels on mine.

[Girlcoupon29]

I have several cookbooks, I read them all.. I like the cookbook made by churches for fund raising but my favorite is an Amish cookbook, it has poems and nonsense recipes all throughout. One may never know what treasures could be found in a recipe book!

[Winter]

Absolutely. I rarely actually make the recipes in them, but I get a lot of ideas for my own recipes from them. There's something very relaxing about reading recipes books.

[luluMoon1940]

Thank goodness there are others out there! I have a huge collection of cook books of all kinds. I guess it helps to be a "foodie" but many books give an insight into other cultures and customs which I find fascinating. I have a book called Vietnamese Street Food which illustrates my point admirably. Its by Tracey Lister and Andreas Pohl and it has pictures and recipes from the legendary street stalls and provides evocative glimpses of traditions and everyday life as well as some cracking good recipes. A must have book.

Has anyone heard of the legendary french chef Edouard Pomiane? His book Cooking with Pomiane with a foreword by Elizabeth David (another of my favourites) published in 1976 is slightly off beat and wonderfully written. Great for fans of true French Food.

[prarich]

I prefer going online for a recipe I need rather than stock up recipe books wherein I will have to search for a recipe.

[LittleWilma]

I don't read cookbooks for enjoyment. I have to read them to weed out anything that has ingredients that my pick family objects to. I have downloaded quite a few for my Kindle.

[ttuso22]

Not necessarily love to read but more of a love to eat what the recipes say!

[diggks58]

I do like reading recipe books. Going online is convenient for recipes however, reading recipe books can give you so many great ideas!

[Ropis]

No, I don't like reading recipe books, I just look up when I need a recipe to cook something...

[Elizabeth Rogers 47]

Some cook books read like a novel. Really more of a memoir, but it might as well be fiction if you do not know the person. I found this out when I took a job as cook on an estate, I had never cooked professionally before, but my friend was leaving the job and needed to replace himself. I was between jobs, and thought I should try it since I had nothing to lose, and the worst I could do was get a week's pay out of the experiment. I began taking piles of books out of the library just to make menus to start out with. By the end of the week I was learning a lot, and I was hooked on cookbook reading.

A set of two cookbooks I can wholeheartedly recommend are: "Home Cooking" and "More Home Cooking". They were written by Laurie Colwin. A young woman who wrote cooking columns for a popular magazine. I'd loved the columns and loved the books. Would rate them 4 out of 4 stars easily. Both for the food and the stories that accompanied the recipes.

Another set that made my new job easier was written by Elsie Masterton. Originally written in 1963, they are "Blueberry Hill Cookbook" and Blueberry Hill Menu Cookbook". These books tell a lot about the running of a country inn. The food is unique, and she gives much helpful advice about cooking in general. I was drawn to these two because the estate I was working at was named d"Blueberry Hill". I remained there 9 years, though with a 2-year break in the middle.

[Little House]

Some cook books (or recipe books) are more fun to read than others. If it is strictly a list of recipes, then it is not much fun to read. But on the other hand, if there are lots of explanations and tips and tricks then it is worth reading. I have lots of cookbooks that I enjoy sitting down and reading.

[book_girl86]

I love reading cookbooks because there are no cooking classes available where I live, and they have helped me learn how to cook. My favorite cookbook is Joy of Cooking.