Question about recipes and cookbooks

JDelphiki
JDelphiki Posts: 47 Member
in Recipes
How is it that cookbooks aren't obsolete already? With the internet as big and easy as it is, who pays for these things? As soon as a book is released someone buys it, tries a recipe, loves it and shares it online with their friends...

I guess there are still people that use paper maps.

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  • stfuriada
    stfuriada Posts: 445 Member
    Id rather use paper maps than that trainwreck apple made a couple months back. :laugh:
  • JDelphiki
    JDelphiki Posts: 47 Member
    Id rather use paper maps than that trainwreck apple made a couple months back. :laugh:

    Sure, but there are better alternatives, which is why the map business has been decimated.
  • asweren
    asweren Posts: 18 Member
    I read cookbooks like other people read novels. I have some books, and some on my tablet. I love them both ways, but it's easier to carry a tablet around. Hey -- even JeanLuc Picard reads books, as well as his "tablet". :happy:
  • cgfol1
    cgfol1 Posts: 179 Member
    I love reading cookbooks!! I have some I've never even cooked out of but looked through many times. I find it quite relaxing to flip through their pages. Sometimes nothing beats tangibility
  • JUDDDing
    JUDDDing Posts: 1,367 Member
    Aren't they?

    I buy one a year now - the "Taste of Home" annual book. (which is great food porn).

    Otherwise - it's Google.
  • Car0lynnM
    Car0lynnM Posts: 332 Member
    I buy cookbooks--sometimes on Kindle and sometimes the paper copy--just to read. Gives me good ideas. I also need a paper copy in the kitchen when I'm following the recipe. Still hesitant to keep the Kindle or a computer in the kitchen. I'm a very messy cook!!
  • racheljonel
    racheljonel Posts: 400 Member
    I like the "heirloom factor" of paper cookbooks. My grandmother still has cookbooks that she uses that were her mother's...with her notes in her handwriting...kinda cool to have something like that to pass down through generations, I think. That's why I prefer a paper copy.
  • PRMinx
    PRMinx Posts: 4,585 Member
    I'm with everyone else. I have a bunch of cookbooks. I like to read them and they look nice on my book shelf. Cooking is a part of who I am and my collection is evidence of that.
  • melsmith612
    melsmith612 Posts: 727 Member
    I use both the internet and my tried and true collection of cookbooks (including one that I have of my own recipes). I don't buy cookbooks often but more so collect them from family. I have some amazing cookbooks from the 1960's. :happy:
  • JDelphiki
    JDelphiki Posts: 47 Member
    I get collecting family favorite cook books, or keeping cookbooks you already have. But if you need a paper copy print the paper :)

    I guess I get that people are holding on to how they have always done something, but it is odd to me to pay for what others are giving away.
  • Lalouse
    Lalouse Posts: 221 Member
    Love them and just bought one for my brother who can't cook (It's called Man Meets Stove). You can't trust everything you find on the internet -- and maybe you can't for a cookbook either, but for the most part they are true and tried recipes, and fun to have around.
  • WendyTerry420
    WendyTerry420 Posts: 13,274 Member
    How is it that cookbooks aren't obsolete already? With the internet as big and easy as it is, who pays for these things? As soon as a book is released someone buys it, tries a recipe, loves it and shares it online with their friends...

    I guess there are still people that use paper maps.

    What have you got against paper? Even when I get a recipe from the internet, I will print it off. And call me old-fashioned, but I love cookbooks and paper maps! I still read books too, from the library. :smokin:
  • Bbwnomore2
    Bbwnomore2 Posts: 225 Member
    I own hundeds of cookbooks, its what i love to collect....some are old some are new. For me they create such great memories and sometimes will bring a tear to my eye, when i see my mothers handwriting. My version of her hug from the great beyond:heart:
  • JDelphiki
    JDelphiki Posts: 47 Member
    How is it that cookbooks aren't obsolete already? With the internet as big and easy as it is, who pays for these things? As soon as a book is released someone buys it, tries a recipe, loves it and shares it online with their friends...

    I guess there are still people that use paper maps.

    What have you got against paper? Even when I get a recipe from the internet, I will print it off. And call me old-fashioned, but I love cookbooks and paper maps! I still read books too, from the library. :smokin:

    No issues with paper. I used to print my recipes until I got my tablet and standup case.

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