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Do any of you ever just read cookbooks for fun? Not necessarily for the recipes, but for the cook commentary that goes along with it?

no but I used to do that with baby name books

I do too, some of them have really neat info before the name section and name meanings are fascinating.

I enjoy doing this

I use those to name OC's!

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Yes. I like it when cooks put up their thoughts about recipes and how they came up with them.

No but I read marking schemes for past examinations for fun. It's very entertaining when you can basically hear the despair in the marker's voice over a supposedly easy question.

I like the pictures. Couldn't actually cook it to save my life, but it looks so tasty!

Me too! Especially cake books. My mom has a cookbook called The Cake Bible and the pics are so pretty. And books specifically about decorating cakes!

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yeah, i do! i have a book on new york cuisine and i love it. i has beautiful pictures and adorably enthusiastic commentary.

i also do this with best albums lists. i've spent hours on the rolling stone site reading their lists.

If it's the New York cookbook with lots of interviews and pictures, I have a copy. (never used it)

I did once. When I was young. There were facts related to the food in it.

YES. I love reading cookbooks! I have so many.

One of my favorites is called "The Mafia Cookbook" and is written by an actual ex-mobster who tells all the stories behind the various meals. Oh, and I have one from the Gilroy Garlic Festival that tells the whole story behind the festival when it was getting started in the '70s and how it's evolved. I love stuff like that.

Yes. Also baking blogs.

Yep! Some of them are written with so much personality, I love. My favorite is probably "What the F*@# Should I Make for Dinner?"

Yes! I love vintage cookbooks especially. I bought a couple of cookbooks from a garage sale that the original owner had used as a diary back in the 50s and 60s, writing over each recipe when she used it, what her husband thought about it, sometimes her feelings when it was harder / turned out less delicious than she was expecting, and lots of encouraging notes to herself.

I also have a few trendy modern cookbooks from the late 1800s / early 1900s, and a "dietetics" book for institutions from 1909. I love seeing different food trends come and go. I also like advertising-related recipe pamphlets from the about the 1920s-80s, especially when some manufacturer or grower's association is obviously straining to manufacture a trend where none exists.

I read them for the tasty pictures and then I get hungry and have to stop. (They also were my main type of literature when I was on chemotherapy. I had to take a drug that made you hungry 24/7, like I would literally get up at 3am to make myself a full plate of scrambled eggs with spinach and potatoes and wake up from hunger at 7am to get a full breakfast. Cue half an hour later making my first lunch. When I was not eating I was perusing cookbooks of which I kept a thigh high stash beside my bed.)

I loved Nanny Ogg's Cookbook.

Oh my god, I buy them for 10-50¢ at thrift stores and casually read them all the time. I read more cookbooks than novels in a given year. I'm not the only one in my family who does, too. My sister collects the 60s-70s TIME-LIFE regional cooking series.

That's actually one of the reasons I'm on my second copy of Emeril Lagasse's Louisiana Real and Rustic. Granted, the other part is due to actually trying out the recipes, but I always snerk when he refers to crawfish and ducks as "friends" (e.g. "I thought we could try this preparation on our feathered friends.").

Yup. Some of my favorites have great stories and I get sidetracked when looking for a recipe.

Yes!!

Might I recommend Elizabeth David for such reading. She mixes in lots of narrative with her recipes.

Yes! Absolutely!

My favorite is James Beard's American Cookery, because he gives a ton of history of American cuisine, and sometimes he'll trace the history of a dish or a given ingredient and reproduce really, really old recipes, or give little anecdotes about his personal memories of a given dish. And also he can be pretty sarcastic sometimes about the recipes, which I very much enjoy.

Mum and I both like occasionally buying recipe books on types of cooking we have an interest in, but more often than not, we never end up making anything in them, but we still keep them and look through them occasionally, because it's interesting to read about various dishes.

Also, I love recipe books with nice pictures in them. I prefer ones with pictures of the preparation stages, but I at least want picture of the finished dish. A huge point of recipe book reading is being able to look at these great food ideas.

Oh, definitely. I've bought cookbooks solely for the commentary and information before.