I suspect most of my cookbooks fall more into the 'useful' category than the 'collectible' category, but it is nice to think there might be a demand for a few of them when I'm gone.

If you're interested in vintage, going back before we were born, there is a guy on YouTube who has a large collection, and he makes dishes from the books. If the book is old enough, he has to research what some of the terms and measurements meant back then. Sometimes the recipe is just a list of ingredients trusting that the cook knew how to cook and put it all together. He also has some old drink books and sometimes he makes cocktails from it. I find it fairly interesting.

If anyone is interested in it, the channel is Glen and Friends.

I had Martha Stewart's "Entertaining " cookbook.Nice pictures but not nice recipes. Away it went.

A cookbook challenge could be fun, we could alternate between breads, savory (main courses or sides) and sweet items. Let's hash out the details and then plan to pick the first one by the end of October and see if a monthly schedule works, even through the holiday season.

I have a very old Joy of Cooking. Thats an interesting challenge. Recently when I wanted to expand my horizons, I find an ingredient and then look for recipes. Before the pandemic I got some rye flour at the Coop and then looked for recipes. I found how very different rye flour is than wheat flour and how some of my ideas on bread baking were totally wrong for rye.