Last month, I was carrying on about cookbooks and specifically about a round up of 25 Beautiful Old Cookbooks on Abebooks and for a while I was all about cookbooks “of a certain age” (and subsequently spent some considerable time looking at vintage community cookbooks – community cookbooks being among some of my favorites since [...]

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I saw the headline “Cookbooks to Covet” and it caught my eye.  Epi-log is very good at catching my eye and their eyes seem to see everything so by regularly checking in there, I don’t miss much. And boy am I glad I didn’t miss this one. It was a link to Abebooks roundup of [...]

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Happy Fig Newton Day, everyone. I am afraid that as on top of things as I was last year, this year I am without newtons on this special day. After the celebrations of Peach Melba day just a few days back and the arrival of new reading in the form of cookbooks (I love after [...]

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Epi-Log @ Epicurious tells us that retro cookbooks are back. Actually, they are just telling you. I already knew it. How did I know it? Because I have sustained minor injuries the last three times I wandered into the cookbook section of my favorite used bookstore. A normally robust section, teeming with titles and shelves [...]

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yes, yes – the Friday Food News Peruse is late. Mea culpa. I promise that as soon as I return from my Sunday brunch, I shall peruse more news than you could shake a stick at. In the meantime, I’ve had cookbooks on my mind the past couple of weeks – after spending a considerable [...]

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