Cookbooks Again. in Postcards 4

Food. Middle of California veggie fields. 2010.

We are low on cookbooks at work. They always sell, and we don’t even have half a shelf. I went through my own shelves yesterday neatening and organizing as I went. My own recipes and most used volumes on one shelf.

Other books are grouped by like and kind. All the old Joy of Cooking together for instance. I don’t have the oldest of these, but I have a wide range of years. Cooking has changed so very much since Fannie Merritt Farmer brought out her first Boston Cooking School Cookbook.

I’m off to work, but I wish I had time to write more about cooking and cookbooks as much of our cultural identity and history is reflected in these volumes.