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Andy wrote:
> ChattyCathy said...
>
>> Debbie wrote:
>>
>>> "ChattyCathy" > wrote in message
>>> ...
>>>> I have a question for the 'cookbook collectors' here (or any other
>>>> interested r.f.c.-ers)...
>>>>
>>>> Do you buy the 'in store and/or promotional mini-cookbooks' that are
>>>> sometimes available at your local stupidmarkets (whose
>>>> authors/compilers you've often never heard of before)?
>>>>
>>> Can't help myself..hanging head.. :-)
>>>
>>> Debbie

>> <lol>
>>
>> An honest response. I like it :-)

>
>
> I swarmed the town library's twice-annual book sales a few times and
> grabbed up boxes of cookbooks, including the little recipe booklets by old
> and new food companies you could get for free for the asking or some that
> came with small kitchen appliances.
>
> Still have them all in boxes in a closet.
>
> I must've been hungry during the sales!
>
> I could never rival Christine's or Ginny's cookbook collections but if I
> had to cook every recipe in my possession once, I'd finally hang up my
> chef's hat at... [calculating...] 348 years, 6 months, 2 days, 8 hours, two
> minutes and 34 seconds old. LOL!
>
> Christine and Ginny? Those gals (endearingly) will probably live forever!
> <G>
>
> Andy


Very rarely do I buy the booklets. I do collect old booklets and
cookbooks though. In fact, I just got back from a sale, which has
a goodly amount of such things. Nothing spectacular--but that was
because I got there late due to lousy weather and the need to get
my daughter off to school.

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Jean B.