On 20 Sep 2006 06:17:53 -0700, "timbrel" > wrote:

>All have a place in my approach to cooking and menu planning.
>I wish I was independent of recipes, but I'm not. Nevertheless, I
>produce a good lunch or dinner from all these sources, if I do say so
>myself :-)

I think one of the things that people are missing here is that those
of us that really love cookbooks don't use them just for the recipes.
Sometimes the recipes are incidental to the rest of the book or are
not very good. But it is the book itself that draws us, with the
stories it presents, or whatever. Sometimes both the stories and the
recipes are extremely good..and we use those recipes in our cooking.

For me, it is never totally about the recipes.

Christine