Cookbook collection

As we thought about who else to add to our own little collection of culinary obsessives, it seemed only fitting to find a collector of some kind, and that's how we stumbled upon Sue Jimenez, a retired forensic anthropologist who, according to Guinness World Records, owns the largest cookbook collection in the entire world.

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Hello. My name is Dana and I am addicted to cookbooks. I’m only half joking here. The truth is that I have a huge cookbook collection, and try as I might, it doesn’t look like I’m going to stop adding to it any time soon. What I have managed to do is learn to control it some. Read on for a few helpful hints for managing a cookbook obsession. How do you know you have a problem? What can you do about it? OWN IT! Do you have 100 cookbooks, 300 cookbooks, 500 cookbooks?

Rachel Khoo's Kitchen Notebook from best-selling author Rachel Khoo. Her latest cookbook is contains 100 gorgeous recipes accompanied by full-colour photography and Rachel's very own sketches of the food and places she encounters.

I am a cookbook collector. I started collecting in my early 20s when living in my first apartment after graduate school. At the time, there weren’t as many recipes available online. However, even today I still love my cookbooks and keep adding to my collection. After sharing my pantry organization project on social media so [...]

It’s no secret I love to cook and that I love collecting cookbooks for recipe inspiration! I have a great collection, nearing 100 cookbooks to flip through from baking to old-fashioned cockta…

Even though it's messy, it looks beautiful.

I find myself reaching for these again and again.

For a long, long time, I’ve wanted to start a cookbook club, the kind where you all read the same book, prepare a recipe, and bring it to a pot-luck to share. There just wasn’t enough margin in my life before now; I couldn’t have added another event to the calendar. However, now that we...

Many cookbook authors have endeavored to capture the spirit of la bella paese for anglophone readers, but only a handful of Italian cookbooks have truly succeeded in transforming our country's culinary landscape. These are the voices and volumes that stand out, the essential, inspiring, reliable texts you want on your bookshelf above all others.