I guess I’m not a shoe person nor a purse person. I’m a food lover and book lover. So it should be no surprise when I start drooling  each time I’m at the cookbook section of some place   Here’s a peek at my personal stash of books, my library. For your amusement/ entertainment. It looks like I’m a full pledged foodie and book lover !   I have more cookbooks and food related books than any other genre.  I do have interior decorating books, travel memoirs, Pioneer history books, Victoria Magazines, Tea time magazines, but most of my books have to do with food, eating customs, food history, food reference, food from from different cultures , food from the past and such. I’ve collected these books here, through the years, finding them on ebay, Amazon, books sales, yard sales, book stores.  I’ve grown somewhat attached to them  that I am not that fond of lending my books, lest they walk away never to be seen again, or worse, earmarked or used as a coaster . They are like friends to me and losing a favorite one is like losing a good friend. I’ve got my favorite books bookmarked so much, they’ve become so much thicker because of the paper bookmarks I’ve put in them. Favorite cookbooks are splattered with food stains & flour, and I don’t mind that as long as I’m the one who did it. I do get rid of books all the time, replacing retired ones with newer models. My tastes have evolved through the years and so does my taste in books. Though tastes change, the love for cookbooks remains.

I’ve always been partial to cookbooks ever since I could read, which explains the ratio of cookbooks to non-cookbooks.  I do read them too and I read ‘em like you would a novel, though some are like  coffee table books whose pictures serve as  inspiration in my many cooking experiments. I am always cooking. I literally live in the kitchen; it’s my haven. My stress therapy if you like to call it that.

I love browsing at gorgeous food photos,  gravitating towards cookbooks with lotsa colored pictures in them and anecdotes.  I’ve upgraded my collection to accommodate such preference, letting go of tons of cookbooks that don’t have pictures. I still keep a couple plain ones if I find them to be of substantial merits but there’s just something about beautiful photography. After all, we eat with our eyes first. So go ahead and take a peek at my bookshelves. I know you’re curious. If you click on each of the photos, you’ll get the full image for each, so you’ll be able to read the titles. No more squinting. I’ve tried to arrange my books according to subjects  but a few manage to end up in the wrong section every so often. After all, I’m always taking them off the shelves and taking them places…

Victoria Books and Coffee table books ( Tea, interior decorating )

” The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t read them.”  ~Mark Twain, attributed

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