Hi Ruth,

Wow. Someone else has It's Different Abroad. And thanks to you I now know the real name of the author.

posted by myshelves at 3:56 pm (EST) on Oct 28, 2006

After so urbane and witty a note, what can I say but: how nice to have you!

posted by Eurydice at 5:17 am (EST) on Aug 2, 2006

Yep, that's me. I now lust after many of your cookbooks, btw.

posted by fieldsofclover at 11:45 pm (EST) on Mar 1, 2006

Hi Ruth,
Yes, I inherited a lot of cookbooks from my late wife who got many from her mom. While in the SCA we got even more. And now I have an influx of books on Jewish cooking, courtesy of my fiancee.

Happy Cataloging!
Larry

posted by Larry_Bell at 7:12 am (EST) on Oct 11, 2005

Hi! I just found this site today, and when I was clicking around the website I saw your username and wondered if you're the same RuTemple from geocaching . . . looking at your e-mail address, I see that you are! What a small world. :) This is Rexy, from Raptor & Rex, btw. VERY glad to have found this cool LibraryThing site. :)

posted by herebedragons at 7:41 pm (EST) on Oct 6, 2005

A Handful of Most Recommended Cookbooks from my collection:

Joy of Cooking, Irma S. Rombauer and her dear DIL. From boiling water to laying out a kitchen garden to the intricacies of puff paste, Irma has always been the best at training the ably competent in the kitchen, with grace and good humor (and occasionally paper ruffles in the ears!)

Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Child, Bertholde & Beck. As much for their impact on our family traditions as for the excellence in cookery.

Moosewood Cookbook, Mollie Katzen. Because after all these years, we still go back to these recipes here.

Vegetarian Epicure, book one and book two, Anna Thomas.

Madhur Jaffrey's Vegetarian Cooking.
Because gourmet to gourmand, omnivore means omnivore means good cooking for everyone's list of yes/no eats as well as like/hate/getmetotheHospitalNow lists. Good eats and wonderful presentation; these three are similarly produced by Knopf and belong on any good cook's shelf right next to the Joy.

New York Cookbook, Molly O'Neill. What sheer gusto! Recipes from every ethnicity on Manhattan

Fancy Pantry, Helen Witty, because we put things by, because we can.

The Cooking of the Eastern Mediterranean, by Paula Wolfert. Because she doesn't just go traveling and get herself invited into folks' kitchens to learn just how they and their grandmothers made what they make, she tells their stories and gives credit by name. So when I make Muhamarra, I can bless the person she learned it from, and Paula herself, for bringing me these wonderful flavors, just so.

posted by RuTemple at 1:08 pm (EST) on Sep 28, 2005

Thanks, Ruth. Feel free to visit whenever you want to, I am slowly adding reviews.

posted by krishh at 2:44 pm (EST) on Sep 25, 2005

thank you for posting this in your LJ. this is exactly the type of database type thing i've been looking for for a while.

posted by esmecat at 3:38 am (EST) on Sep 23, 2005

Thank you! Ths postcard is an especial favorite - we are big on grottos and outsider constructions.

As for the cookbooks, this is fortunately/unfortunately only a small part of the cooking collection. I have an extensive collection of small cookbooks from the 1920's -1950's. My current interest is wartime cookery.

Funny, my husband and I are both originally from the Bay Area and moved here in the late 90's. I love your scarves!

posted by LarsonLewisProject at 9:58 am (EST) on Sep 22, 2005