cookbooks

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Collecting Cook Books: Read ‘Em and Eat!

2015 Articles, Diana Bulls, Food Fun, Hometown History

by Diana Bulls

So, you probably didn’t even realize it, but you might already have a cook book collection sitting on one of your kitchen shelves. You might own a cook book by Betty Crocker, Fanny Farmer or Better Homes and Gardens that you got for a shower or wedding gift – a good, basic cookbook with lots of how-to pictures. You might have a couple of cook books put out by your church or a local ladies club, and then there are those advertising cook books from companies like Pillsbury, Campbell’s Soup or Jell-O.

Recipe For Murder

2012 Articles, Food Fun, Mysteryrat's Maze

by Janet Rudolph

Some of you may know me as the Editor of the Mystery Readers Journal, blogger at Mystery Fanfare and DyingforChocolate.com. As such you’ll assume, and you’d be right, that I’m a book collector. I have a passion for collecting ‘things’--books, to be sure, patriotic Americana embroideries, Oriental carpets, American folk art, and the more than occasional cat and dog. I love flea markets and garage sales, and the occasional dumpster. Don’t leave something by the road, because I’m bound to find it.