Oh, and PS...

[desperance]

While I have your attention, here's the finest bag of Black Eye Beans ever to grace a grocery shelf:





(Yup. That's channa dal, that is. If it weren't comestible, I'd add it to my collection of Glorious Misprints. As it is, well, it shall be comested. But preserved none the less for posterity, through the glorious medium of art photography...

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[lamentables.livejournal.com]

I'm fond of that book. I like a cookery book that is too serious for glossy pictures :-)

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Me too - though I confess I am a sucker for glossy pictures also, just so long as they are not step-by-step illustrations of how to cook, because I hate to be patronised.

I just bought Grace Young's "The Breath of a Wok", which is full of pix of China and food and cooking, and is entirely scrummy...

[lamentables.livejournal.com]

Do you have Thai Food by David Thompson? The one that's bound in fuchsia pink silk... That's a book to stroke and drool over.

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Yup. Had that since day one, pretty much.

[lamentables.livejournal.com]

I think I'm getting the measure of your cookery book habit...

[pennski.livejournal.com]

Watching you playing "Top Trumps" cookery books is a wonderful spectator sport.

[desperance.livejournal.com]

I just measured. I have about forty-five feet of cookery books, more or less. I may have missed a few...

[lamentables.livejournal.com]

Wow, I'm impressed by the size of your collection ;-)
I have one cookery shelf and use that as a way to stop myself from buying all the cookery books ever.

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Ah. You have spotted my weakness: there is no way to stop me from buying all the cookery books ever. These days, I have the Lit & Phil's leftover bookshelves, but I used not to. Lack of shelving has never stopped me buying books. They stack, you know...