I have a question does anyone else love to read cook books. Just for fun.
I have a question does anyone else love to read cook books. Just for fun.
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I have a question does anyone else love to read cook books. Just for fun.
Me!! Also I love the tasty videos on here but I never made one.
Thank you so I’m not crazy
I look through them marking the ones I wish people would make me. I am not a great cook.
I don’t READ them… like I would a book… but I’ve spent many hours flipping through mine. I play in the kitchen a lot and it’s not unusual to find me researching recipes with about 10 or 20 cookbooks piled around me.
For me, there are five food groups; eat in, take out, microwaveable, canned, and chocolate! I have lots of cookbooks and have bookmarked recipes that I think would be great to eat, but it’s like Marxism; works in theory, not in practice.
I love to read the really old ones.
I have a shelf and a half of nothing but cookbooks that I like to read once in a while
Yes!
Yes
??I love to cook too☺️
Me
✋✋✋??? yess!!
Yes!!!!
Oooh I do!! Just looking at the pictures are often enough to make me happy ?. Occasionally, only occasionally, I’m inspired to actually cook LOL
Oh hell no!!!!
Yes! I really like the ones that add a bit of history about the recipes and the people and times they were used.
I just Look at the pictures wish I wasn’t to damn lazy about cooking. When I’m done I go back to the boring chicken I always cook and hate so much ??
ALL THE TIME and I collect them. If something looks good I buy the cookbook but I have nobody to cook for anymore?
I like looking through them & if there’s information about the ingredients or the origin of the dish I find that interesting too.
I rarely follow the recipe to the letter though, I just like to get a feel for how it’s supposed to be, then I do my own thing.
I read them but dont cook the recipes
I used to read them at a friends house when I babysat for them. After I got the kids to sleep and everything cleaned up, I sat at the kitchen island with a pile of there cookbooks!
I read cook books and also do experiment.
love the old cook books, the often have household hints from long ago and finding some of those hints work better!
Yes!
I used to buy one every time I got in a car accident. I had quite a collection!
Yes! I LOVE to cook, but very rarely do I use a recipe (as written) (except for baking)- Often I will read a recipe and alter it, use it for inspiration, etc. I LOVE cookbooks, but I read them like novels.
That’s what I do love to get new ideas.
Love cookbooks.
Yes!!
I do! I have a mini library in the kitchen!
Yes. I like cooking and love to read cookbooks just for the sheer fun of it
Yes
I love reading them I’m bed, but often then make a recipe the next day.
I can so right now I have the Ball canning book in my bed
I do! I always thought I was odd for doing that, lol
Nice to know I’m not alone!
Yes
Yas!
yes
Lol, yes, and never cook.
I thought it was just me!!!
Me too. Right now I have a the deluxe Ball canning book in my bed .
I do. but rarely cook any more.
Love to!!!!!
At times … I get some great ideas that way for some recipes.
Omg yes! I keep collecting those as well ??
I sometimes flip through and read the blurb for something that looks appealing.
Yeah I konw a guy who who is in to these sort of hobbies: Me myself. 🙂
Yes, and by doing that it keeps my weight in check!
Sometimes.
I love the photos, I live vicariously through them!!
Yep
I love the photos
All the time. I have about 300, but I do love to cook as well.
Love to cook
I like looking at the pictures?✋️?
YES
Reading is reading!
My daughter does. I have a mini collection of cook books, usually go through them when I need cooking ideas.
Oh yeah, especially on rainy days! Curl up on the couch with a mug of tea or coffee and read for ages 😀
Yes! A not so guilty pleasure!
Yes, I love reading about food and cooking too. I also make wish lists of things to cook when I have time and create dinner party menus for when we entertain.
Oh yeah! But, they have to have pictures. A cookbook without pictures is not worth reading.
Yes of course!!
Always!
I have a collection of cookbooks. Some have sayings along with the recipe and others have stories about the people who wrote the recipe.
That is the best
No. Not me. ?
Yes!!!! I read my culinary textbooks for fun. It tends to make me hungry though
I do and I think wow, that would taste wonderful if I had all these ingredients.
I do and have a big collection of them
I do. And look through the pictures. I have a good sized collection and I have followed very few actual recipes!
I’m the same way lmao
Yes!
Is this not something everyone does? I didn’t realise it was an “odd” behaviour ?
I’m the only of my friends that loves to read them!
I love cookbooks!
Only the two by Laurie Colwin: “Home Cooking” and “More Home Cooking”… don’t know if they count as “cookbooks” though…
They count
Yes.
Me!
I do
yes i do
I do, especially with pictures. Love reading Pastry and Bread baking book.
yes!
Me
I do