Cookbooks

[Pepper Pig Profile]

Serious question. I’m having a cull. I have about 2 thousand. If there is a cookbook you want, I’m getting rid and you’re prepared to pay P&P then it’s yours.

I’ll list some of them when I’m up and running today but have a think.

[scullion Profile]

it may be easier for you to lay out batches of the ones you want to get rid of and post a photo of them.
it'll be quicker for you than typing a list.

[Pepper Pig Profile]

My computer or my non-expertise prevents me from doing photos on here Scully. Maybe I'll list what I think people might want. Too knackered today and generally not much energy. Can't get at books until the house photographer has done his stuff but here's a few for starters:

1. The Oxford Companion to Food - Alan Davidson
2. Made in Italy - Giorgio Locatelli (signed)
3. The Times Cookbook - Frances Bissell
4. Arabella Boxer's Book of English Food
5. The Farmhouse Kitchen Baking Book

[KeenCook2 Profile]

One of my friends swears by the Darina Allen books and was gifted one of the Ballymaloe courses by her son a while ago, which she enjoyed a lot.

I've never really looked at them. Are they any good, and have you got any that you want to divest yourself of PP?

[Pepper Pig Profile]

No I haven't KC2. Unusual for me. Most of mine were eBay purchases and I was probably taking the moral high ground when her paedophile husband got done.

[KeenCook2 Profile]

ooh, I never heard about the hubby!

[Pepper Pig Profile]

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/tv-chef ... y-1.456690

[KeenCook2 Profile]

Goodness, almost 20 years ago. I must ask my friend if she knew about it.

[Stokey Sue Profile]

I think that may have had something to do with the cool and untarnished Rachel becoming the face of the Ballymaloe franchise
There’s a strong Irish faction that dislikes them thinking they fiddle their taxes and elbow everyone else out of celebrity cook careers.

PP, interested in the Locatelli please

[Pepper Pig Profile]

It's yours. PM me your details and the safest way of getting it to you.

[mistakened Profile]

PP, I am sure that there are specialist dealers who would buy the entire collection if you wanted to sell them

Moira

[Pepper Pig Profile]

I think the bottom might have dropped out of that market Moira. Certainly has if you look at eBay. There are people who just want recipes and people who want the whole journal thing, like me.

[Stokey Sue Profile]

Also there are so many 99p or £1.99 offers on Kindle cookbooks, I got both Ballymaloe and the Claudia Roden Jewish book mentioned elsewhere that way.

Will do PP when on my PC

[Sloe-Gin Profile]

Didn't MasterChef go to the Allen kitchen?

[Earthmaiden Profile]

I got the Claudia Roden Jewish on Kindle. I find it impossible to use (to refer back, find recipes etc) on Kindle. I don't suppose you're getting rid of a copy, PP?

[Pepper Pig Profile]

Not sure EM. I used to have it but I have a feeling I gave it away to the anti vaxer. Will have a look once the photographer and estate agents have gone.

[Pepper Pig Profile]

I got the Claudia Roden Jewish on Kindle. I find it impossible to use (to refer back, find recipes etc) on Kindle. I don't suppose you're getting rid of a copy, PP?

EM, they’ve gone and I’ve found it. It’s yours.

[Stokey Sue Profile]

I got the Claudia Roden Jewish on Kindle. I find it impossible to use (to refer back, find recipes etc) on Kindle. I don't suppose you're getting rid of a copy, PP?

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I find it quite easy - the index is hyperlinked, which I find much easier than page flicking, and the whole text is searchable

I think you just have t get used to it not being exactly the same as print, and it's as much a book to read as a recipe book. It could do with a contents list of chapter titles, which it doesn't have,

What annoys me are books that are Kindled with the index deliberately missed out, which is Bloomsbury policy so MiMi's Mandalay has no index on Kindle (v annoying, I paid full price) but some go the other way like Kay Plunkett-Hogge's Baan (published by Pavilion) which lists all the chapter sub headings in the contents, which make sit rather unwieldy

[Earthmaiden Profile]

Oh goodness PP! How wonderful. Yes please! I'll PM you.

I have never mastered Kindle. I need someone to show me how to use it to it's best advantage, even finding bookmarked pages eludes me. I usually save it for trashy novels on planes. Exactly, Sue. No index, no page flicking .. .

[Stokey Sue Profile]

But apart from Bloomsbuty
they do all have an index, the one in the Jewish food book I looked at, it's an easy one as it's single column (which most are on Kindle, though not on paper), you look up what you want in the usual way, it gives you a page number, you tap the page number and it takes you to the exact recipe, so much easier than flicking through to page 82 or whatever!

Where it falls down, I admit, is where it gives you several pages, I haven't yet found a quick and easy way of returning to the index entry from the first recipe, I must investigate