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Kristin Jensen's avatar

Love and 100% agree with everything you’ve said here. There are worse ways to spend one’s time and money than lost in the pages of a cookbook or browsing in a bookshop. ❤️

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Russell & Patrick's avatar

Had a feeling this would resonate with you in particular! No bigger champion of cookbooks!

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Larissa Hennessy's avatar

I do this more for fiction books but I get what you are saying, I do after all have 250 cookery books !

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Russell & Patrick's avatar

Love that too! We’re not massive fiction readers but if we were we would be the exact same!

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Karen Dunne's avatar

Love a good cookbook browse! Local charity shops can be gold too: I managed to find a copy of Hamlyn’s All Colour Cookbook which was the bible in my house as a kid. It was only €1 and I gave it to my niece so she can make the frosted Devil’s Food Cake, it was the height of fancy in the 1980s 😆

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Russell & Patrick's avatar

Charity shops are a truly special form of cookbook browsing –– when you find that ellusive title or that total bargain it's worth its weight in gold!

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Bronagh Conlon's avatar

Love to read through a cookery book then make up my own recipes.... Sometimes a success 😁

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Russell & Patrick's avatar

We are the exact same –– too fond of a riff! Sometimes it pays off, sometimes it puts you in your place, either way that's the joy of cookery!

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