This blog actually started out (almost five years ago!) as a paean to cookbooks and a document of my obsession with them. After a while, it turned a corner and became more about food: what I was cooking, eating or feeding to others. I think it has a bit of a slant towards entertaining, but that's because I really enjoy and sharing tips and tricks with my readers. But, I think whether we are talking about eating, cooking, shopping, feeding or entertaining, the flowering of my thoughts still stems from cookbooks.
As mentioned before, one reason I pick-up a vintage cookbook is for the illustrations. Drool-worthy photography seems so integral to cookbooks today, but I think it's much more interesting to see how publishers made their tomes visually interesting without the ability to add a giant, color photograph to each page. That said, I have stacks and stacks of cookbooks, so I have to be careful about my choices. Right? But, when thrifting at the St. Vincent de Paul in Madison, I couldn't resist picking up a few treasures.
Next time you're over, we can thumb through a couple of my favorites and I'll show you the best of my collection.
As mentioned before, one reason I pick-up a vintage cookbook is for the illustrations. Drool-worthy photography seems so integral to cookbooks today, but I think it's much more interesting to see how publishers made their tomes visually interesting without the ability to add a giant, color photograph to each page. That said, I have stacks and stacks of cookbooks, so I have to be careful about my choices. Right? But, when thrifting at the St. Vincent de Paul in Madison, I couldn't resist picking up a few treasures.
Next time you're over, we can thumb through a couple of my favorites and I'll show you the best of my collection.