Schatzli of For The Love of Travel and Food has tagged me for the Cookbook Meme originally started by Anthony of Spiceblog. (THANKS SCHATZLI! — these are the only tag games I know where you actually thank people for tagging you LOL) —
However, I’d like to beg off for the meantime and do a part 1 so I can do my tagging now, and answer questions later…. for these reasons (okay, lame excuses):
After 15.5 yrs of marriage and moving from apartment to house to apartment to house to apartment, etc., etc. — we are in our 8th home, I have gotten terribly disorganized — so this is a picture of my “working cookbook shelf” — the ones I use most right now for research and writing my cookbook:
I promised myself I’d organize these
(along with the shelves that will house them all eventually)
before I opened these: the 2 boxes holding my most precious cookbooks.
We’ve been here over a year and these books still haven’t seen the light of day. I haven’t been motivated before because I’m working on our library getting organized, but this meme just might do it! We also may be leaving in a month so I’m trying to get my act together and get organized. Hopefully I’ll be opening this box soon (within 30 days) and we can look at the contents together!
I could have just posted this next month, but I didn’t want to lose the opportunity of tagging Connie of Pinoy Cook, Lori of Dessert First, and Annalyn of Ajay’s Writings on the Wall/Munchin’ in Manila.
I hope they keep this meme going! C’mon gals, you’re IT!
Tags: cookbook meme
Wow thats alot of books!
I am kinda like you cookbooks in boxes on shelves in my working space….ahhh CRAZY!
OMG dami nyan ah! hehe I only have 10 I guess but got some in papers though & some cut-out from magazines
will look forward to know what you have in your stash.
my 3 boxes from Norway have arrived have not claimed them yet i know there are cookbooks inside……
I’m replying to the comment you left in my blog, in the History of the 5 Cookbooks Meme. You’re right Stef, the meme started by Anthony is not the same. Somewhere along the line, it morphed into people tagging others for it but at the beginning, Anthony left it open to whomever wanted to respond so there is no way to keep track of those first respondents.
i try to whittle my cookbooks down to 100 every year. but every year it gets harder and harder with all the great cookbooks coming out. so this year i’m working on my magazines — i used to have 7 or 8 boxes and i’m down to 3 or so now. it’s SOOOO hard! somewhere along the way you have to accept that you can only cook so much in a lifetime (sigh).