Cooking With Dexter: Free Bird

[elleng]

'All the cookbooks I own are packed away.'

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/30/magazine/30food-t-000.html?hpw

[Tesha]

1. Print is magic...

"There’s never been anything like the Internet for helping us find what we want. But when it comes to finding what we didn’t know we wanted, print is magic."


Yes, I use the internet for recipies, but I use my books for ideas, for notes I've made, and for pure pleasure.

Thanks for thr link, Ellen - excellent read!:hi:

[elleng]

2. Yr welcome, Tesha.

For NOTES! Yes!

Like the author, my cookbooks have been 'packed away,' and/or lost or destroyed when house was sold. Daughters have a couple of them, but I find myself 'thinking and hoping,' about old recipe notes. A lot!

[Tesha]

3. I've lost many of my books too...

and they can mostly be replaced,
it's the hand-written recipes and notes I think about...

so many years of cooking (and eating) blur without my bookcase full of ... well... of life I suppose.
I found a menu of a Christmastime dinner a few years ago, stained with a little grease - and I was suddenly back there in the steamy kitchen full of noise and laughter. I'm so glad I saved it.


I've noticed that many of us here use C&B as our "library of cookbooks, old recipes and notes" :pals: