How many cookbooks do you own?

Hi, I just love cookbooks - buy during sales and hoard them. They are so nice to look at! I've tried a few recipes, the simple ones, but have yet to seriously learn to cook proper dishes, bake cakes from them. I have plans to do that when I retire; so meanwhile I'll keep collecting!

My love for cooking and baking is an evergreen passion and this had lead me to own tons of cookbooks. Whenever I travel I sure look for bookstores where I scout for cookbooks. My collection has piled up in my home library and I treasure all of my cookbooks as they are handpicked by me at the bookstores. The latest I have is bought by my son in Dubai last month on Eastern cooking. Besides buying cookbooks I am also an avid reader of internet recipes and have some good sites which I frequent. I will check your site. Maybe I will find something that fits my pot.

I do not even want to count how many I have, but I mostly make it up as I go along, or I use the internet. I may have to make a collection for my kids, as I really enjoy the ones I have that were my mom's.

I think mine add up to around sixty, and I am always trying to find more. I really like the older ones, the recepies are great. My favorites are also the older ones, I still have my very first cookbook that my sister got me when I was a teenager. I can't remember the name of it now, I will add that later when I look. I just call it 'my old cookbook' I buy them as much as possible, and mostly second hand. I guess I could say that I do 'collect' them. I can sit down and just read one and enjoy it ! Happy cooking.

i love cooking but i dont have cookbooks, but loved to have its just that its not on my priority to buy, my cooking is just based on what ive read on magazines and watched on tv, or my mom's cooking that is passed to me.

I have well over a hundred, most purchased by me. Some from my grandmothers. I love cookbooks, all kinds, and I do use them all. I find them almost irresistable especially when I come upon a clearance sale at a book store or something like that. My husband says I am to cookbooks what Imelda Marcos was to shoes. My favorites, though, are the ones I bought for my 6 and 8 year old daughters to use with me in the kitchen. It's not the food we create from them. It's the memories.

I dont even have a single cook book..lol..i experiment on my food and sometimes i browse the internet to get recipes.I usually take recipes from friends nad families and well they dont taste too bad ehh. But i would like to buy a cook book to learn to bake tasty cakes..Got any suggestions for me??

I love cookbooks. I probably have about 25 or more. I refer to them occassionally when I want to cook something I haven't before or something I don't often cook. But most of my dishes are made up in my mind. I use my cookbooks to get ideas also. My favorite is just a big binder I put together of recipes I collect from the internet, out of magazines, and off the back of boxes, etc.

well at the moment i don't have any but i depend on the internet

approx 3 on paper and several electronically Via e book

whatever cooking i do i have learned it from my mom. i learned cooking after my wedding and what i use to do is i just use to write the recipes from my mom and then come to my husbands house and then try and cook them and hence this way i learned my cooking. when i had not got married i was having no interest in cooking and hence i didnt learn but after my marriage i need to learn. and i have the only one cook book which i have collected all the recipes and i also watch it over tv and note them down and try preparing them and i also see on net and try them. there is a website where i watch the recipe videos which is really nice and i have added those recipes in my book and i prepare them frequently and i like it too and i feel that its a very good site where i have so many good recipes and it really helps. i just dont take recipe books coz i have some selected items which i want and note them down. and sometimes we get good recipes even in magazines which are really good.

I have quite a few cookbooks too, I have some that were for fund raising, church organizations etc. I even have some from out local newspaper that once a year do a section on your favorite recipes, I search the internet too for new ideas and how and what to prepare for a fast meal. I have never thought of buying cookbooks off ebay I am going to check that out and yours on your profile page.

I own one cookbook. It is the Better Homes and Gardens cookbook. I love it. It is what got me into cooking and the book I used to teach myself to cook. I also use the internet a lot to find new recipes. I like the site everydayfood.com.

I do own a good few cook books,but lol its not too often that I follow the recipes,we tend to eat less fussily nowadays.I own a few indian cookbooks,but I will always modify the recipe to my tastes and invariably there are a few ingredients that end up posing as something else.But I have a very old Mrs Beetons cookbook,1932,its good reading,it shows you how to kee house and how to look after your husband.The book shows how to treat each cut of meat and shows many recipres that would n ow be considered very out of date.But never the less an interesting book.I also managed to pick up a very good book from the 1950s at a charity.thrift shop and that is a mind of information it has many household tips and hints lol for cleaning windows,and cleaning the chimneys,the spring cleaning list that needs to be done once a year,it is also filled with illustrations,so its fun to look at.I very much enjoy wastching the television cooks,and I tend to watch as many programmes as I can that involve cooking,I love the competition ones like Masterchef.The only thing is that the ingredients that they sometimes use would cost us ordinary mortals half a weeks shopping budget.

My mother owns a lot of cookbooks and the Diabetic Cookbooks and Betty Crocker seem to be her favorites. She said the books will be mine if anything happens to her, but honestly, I do not really want them.

i have only 5 cook books.i bought it in New Zealand.not a lot of it but i can cook different recipe.i love cooking and inventing recipes.

I have a large collection of cookbooks and wish I had the time to try a lot of the recipes, in recent years I seem to have moved away from the cookbooks and buy the monthly cooking magazines and of course there are heaps of cooking sites on the internet that I like to visit and gather ideas for quick easy meals.

8 cook books, which were sent by friend. i never buy any cook book. but i do have a lot of english books in my bookself, drawer, bedside.

I only have two or three but I sometimes buy food magazine. Though I have cookbooks I never bothered to open them as I am more comfortable following recipe through my mom.

hi....i don't have a book...i knw cooking watevr my mother tell me when m in kitchen...infact i won't get time to do something new...but i like searching for new recipes in net....