Cooking Through Our Collection

More than a thousand cookbooks

About Our Collection

We started our collection almost serendipitously. We had a couple hundred cookbooks simply from our love of food and cooking. When we moved into our first home, we put were able to put all of the cookbooks onto shelves and realized we had the stars of collections that we wanted to finish and a passion for the inspiration we get from cookbooks. And there it started - our collection is now over 1,500 cookbooks and still growing!

Our collection consists primarily of cookbooks we have bought ourselves (both new and used), cookbooks we have received as gifts, and cookbooks that have been passed through each of our families.

Our oldest cookbook was published in 1902!

Cooking through our ever growing collection

As a kitchen amateur (wife) and a former chef (husband), we wanted to catalog our collection and our journey of cooking and baking through our cookbooks.

Collections Within Our Collection

  • Modernist Cuisine

  • Modernist Bread

  • Culinaria

  • The Beautiful Cookbook

  • Foods of the World

  • Christmas with Southern Living

  • Southern Living 1979 Annual Recipes

    Southern Living Annual Recipes

  • Barefoot Contessa

  • Christmas with Martha Stewart Living

  • Williams-Sonoma Kitchen Library

  • The Cook's Encyclopedia

  • Southern Living Progressive Farmer

“You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.”

—Julia Child