r/CookbookLovers

I saw a TikTok today where Isaac Mizrahi was in a cookbook store, and he picks up a cookbook and says “meh, this is overrated,” and puts it back.

It happens fast in the video, so I’ve tried to take as clear screenshots as I can.

It appears to have a mauve/purple border on the cover with a white/cream interior and a white/cream spine… it seems like it has several words for the title, and then the back cover has, what appears to be a photo, and some text.

Any good cookbook sleuths out there? lol

Hi, back with my collection of vintage recipe card library. This is my Betty Crocker recipe card library from 1971. Very interesting stuff. Before you say anything this is of its era and as a result some stuff some people might find offensive and sexist but again it is of its era. hopefully this doesn’t get taken down. If so it’s totally understandable. This is strictly sharing vintage recipes.

This book is worth buying even only for the chocolate chip cookie recipe (these cookies are pictured on the last slide). I got a Michelin star for these cookies. The star was drawn by my 10 yo niece but still. (She thinks my cooking is Michelin star level and I’m dying laughing but playing along with all seriousness). Okay, back to these batch.

Taste wise: no notes, all great. I barely managed to snap a shot of oatmeal cookies because the speed of their extinction was truly impressive. Brownie cookies are exactly like brownies, brighter substance on the author’s image is peanut butter (optional). I loved chocolate sugar cookies, they have more crunch. I absolutely love raisins so no surprise here that cookies became extinct so quickly.

General thought: it takes longer to bake anything from this book but I expect it with my oven plus we’re at the sea level.

I’d put the book in the same category with Snacking cakes: it’s not intricate nor time consuming cooking yet how fast it gets eaten speaks for itself. I’d especially recommend it for the beginners. It’s quite beginner friendly.

Going back to my niece, she told my sister, her mom, that without the aunty chocolate chip cookies are not quite the same even though the recipe is the exact one

Here are 2 of my favorite pages form this cookbook. The rivalry between Bette Davis and Joan Crawford was one of Hollywood's most legendary feuds, characterized by decades of professional sabotage, personal insults, and bitter competition.

While it was often fueled by studio heads to drum up publicity, the two actresses genuinely detested each other, resulting in a "deliciously wicked" history of sharp-tongued quips and petty on-set antics.

The last recipe I’m trying from this cookbook, and it was my favorite. I definitely will keep this recipe idea. That being said all of the times in the recipe are off. It says to rest the dough for 30 minutes. Mine ended up needing an hour. It said to cook the pasta for 3 to 4 minutes. Mine ended up taking 12 minutes. I tossed it up with some garlic butter, pesto, and roasted zucchini, and some fresh basil and it was amazing.

Hello! I’m searching for this book and I am desperate. I’m willing to pay the full retail price of €30 for it. It’s completely sold out and no longer in print.

I’ve been thinking of updating my collection - I have a lot of vintage and some antique, which I love…but also a lot of cheap books I inherited that I will never use.

Any must-have recommendations that I am missing?

I love Middle Eastern & Mediterranean food, don’t eat anything from the ocean, and enjoy baking.

I know these are some CLASSIC cookbooks but they haven’t made their way into my collection until now. What do you love to make from these?

$2 find thrifting. I really do not need anymore cookbooks but it's my bday.

My cookbook club cooked from the Diaspora Co cookbook this month and it was INCREDIBLE. We collectively made the jammy egg curry, the Kashmiri pulao, the bitter melon salad, the date cake, fennel shrub cocktail. The singju salad, country chicken curry, pol roti- also remixed it into a chapati version and the aloo potatoes. 10/10 I’m still thinking about the country curry chicken

I got this amazingly quality copy of the Outdoor Cookbook. It is the first edition second printing.

Anyone have this? Have you cooked out of it?

What should I make first??

In season 3 Carmy is flipping through cookbooks for inspiration for his lamb dish. Most of the cookbooks he looks at have readable titles but not this one. Google Lens has narrowed it down to "this is a white jacket." Anybody have any ideas? Thank you in advance!