You're on a desert island, with *5* cookbooks...

I almost got rid of that same Doubleday set. I raced upstairs to see if it's still there and it is.

I'm going to take another look at it. Thanks Melissa. And I should have listed a Betty Crocker. I think I have them all from about 1955 to 1990 or so.

 
If you have copies (plural) can you send me one because I can't get the author to sell it to me

 
Dude, you want a little cheese with that whine? (You don't have my books?)

I can speak to the author about remedying that. He's very busy however, and stinging about being "given up on". Whatever THAT means.

 
No. I'm thinking what nice padding they'd make for a fig jam shipment.

Meanwhile I need time to disassociate the concept of jam from Grandma's toes!

 
My list is a little sentimental.

The New Basics (Silver Palate ladies)

Alice's Restaurant (first cookbook, and it really did teach me how to cook)

Joy of Cooking

Betty Crocker's Picture Cookbook (my mom's)

Sunset's The Best of Sunset 1987

 
I would definitley bring the BC hardbound mid-80s edition my MIL gave DH for his

birthday one year. It is one of the few that sits on my kitchen counter at the ready.

 
My top choice would be Julia's The Way To Cook...

that's what got me started on my cooking journey.

The others would be a mix of those I use regularly and ones I always want to cook more from but don't ever seem to have the time and/or audience for:

1. The Way To Cook ~ Julia

2. A little binder that I put together when I first left home at 18, it contains recipe cards written by my mom for family favorites. Over the years I have added a few of my own, plus some of my MIL's recipes that are staples here.

3. Betty Crocker (hardbound, circa 1983)

4. Joy of Cooking

5. The Around The World Cookbook

 
If they celebrate Thanksgiving on Richard's Island I'm bringing the Nov. '94 Bon Appetit

"The Ultimate Thanksgiving." I use it every year, and it's not really cheating since it's not really a book.

 
It would be a beautiful Island since we'd have fabulous desserts!...

This is the book that catlogued all of the imperial desserts, each with full photographs and step by step photos. It is a beautiful book and one of my most treasured posssessions. If the house caught on fire, this is one of the things I would be carting out...

 
Wait, I'm on a desert island - is there food or just books to torture me with thoughts of food?

Because that would be MEAN!!!!

 
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