Thanks for weighing in with your opinion too @karen_geary, and welcome! Do you have any particular favorites from that book?
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You can adopt me. Iām only 60. There are a number in your pictures I would cherish.
I donāt often cook from cookbooks. I read them and think about them and consider the juxtaposition of ingredients.
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Well, how bout I put yellow stickers on the ones you want now, with final instructions left for the family? Geez, after reading the news just now, it doesnāt seem that unlikely, in fact. 
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How very sweet.
Iām sorry your daughters arenāt interested.
Yellow stickers on:
Historic Charleston & the Lowcountry
any one of Justin Wilson or Chef Paul Prudhomme
Jacques Pepin Heart & Soul in the Kitchen
Your Joy of Cooking looks in good shape and too new. Iāve been looking for a Fourth Edition from the early 50s before appliances and even refrigeration were ubiquitous. Yoursā looks like an 90s edition.
Iām a proponent of paying forward. Iāll find a way to add to your karma account.
In the meantime enjoy your wonderful collection and remember that cookbooks are as valuable for reading as cooking from.
Hugs, dave
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I do not like alot of clutter and therefore, have all my books inside the cabinetry or at our tiny apartment up on the northeast Costa Brava, close to our parents & inlaws, two sons and their families.
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OMG, the unbelievable has happened regarding the bespoke cookbook collection!! You all are the first to know.
H just walked out of the master bedroom, where his office is set up for now; he was, and still is in a meeting. Lots of talking going on, so heās also texting with an old, very good Reno friend of ours. This guy is amazing, his wine collection is the best Iāve ever seen, and heās a foodie, with excellent skills, and respectable cookbook library.
Anyhoo, H walks out with a big smile, asks me how many Marcella books I have and where are they? Get them for him, heās thrilled, and has resumed communication with friend. They trade pics nightly of our respective meals, and are comparing cookbook creds now, evidently. As some of you know, my collection mostly irritates him, but I may have him as an ally nowā¦ NOT that I need one. Good thing I was sitting down for this developmentā¦
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You put this perfectly. Same here.
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Iām not volunteering, but I wonder if there might be a top fife on most of 9ur shelves.
Fascinating pictures of some awesome bookshelves. I think I have five books somewhereā¦Aaron Franklin, a Chevyās book, and three Chinese. I never use them.
My recipe book is merely scribbles on 3x5 notecards for reference. Most everything has come by way of magazines, restaurants, trial & error, and word of mouth. If itās worth keeping itās on an index card.
Hereās the staging area of current journals before being moved to the bound periodical section in storage. 
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Chevyās- the Mexican place, or the car?
I used to love the Ford Times series of cookbooks.
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@ChristinaM, I spotted the binder of recipes on your shelf because I have an even bigger binder. I started collecting recipes by favorite authors years ago and almost never added any after the Internet became a treasure trove of recipes.
I revisited the binder during this pandemic. Surprise, surpriseāyounger me has the same tastes as, um, somewhat older me. A bunch of the recipes and riffs on them have become part of my repertoire.
If anybody here collects similarly ārandomā recipes, I wonder if youāve found the same? And if you are in the early days of collecting, hang on to your collection if you have the physical (or online) space. Youāre compiling a personal history of taste that will be fun to revisit!
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The restaurant. Lol. I dont know if they are even still open.
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Main section.
boookshelf.pdf (1.0 MB)
Sorry. Am having cockpit problems.
No wonder! That is a lot! I can imagine sitting in that chair, perusing, and not cooking!
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Not to be confused with the ābookshelfā that is the Internet? grin
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