For someone who likes buying books, cookbooks are definitely in the list. Although books that have amazing photos and styles of food are very much alluring, I find that what closes the deal between browsing and purchasing is actually the recipes themselves. If I find that the recipes in the book are 'do-able', if the ingredients that are used are easily available, if the food in the book are those that I like or would love to try, and if the price of the book is not ridiculously expensive, then there's definitely a
potential purchase. It is no doubt that you can find almost a recipe for anything on the internet nowadays, but having a cookbook adds a bit more of that seriousness in cooking or baking, or at least for amateurs like me (not that cooking or baking ever have to be serious though). When following recipes, I like to have them in front of me on the kitchen counter, looking at them step by step, measure by measure. And I still love the idea of having a physical hard-copy of recipes just like our moms have it.
Cupcake Recipe Book | purchased at one of those bargain stash at the mall
Jamie Oliver | bought at the Sunday Market for more than half of the original price (in new condition)
Turqoise A4 Notebook | My own collection of hand-written/copied recipes
(Not in photo | RASA Magazine I bought from Malaysia)
Photo | Olympus PEN, desaturated edit
NIce text :) and now I want to buy one of these books :)
ReplyDeleteand the idea of having "a physical hard-copy of recipes just like our moms have it."( as you say in the text) it isn't bad. Maybe when I 20 or 23 years I try to do it. why 20 or 23, because now i have to think on my studies. hehehe
thanks laila. cooking/baking/kitchen stuff is nothing to rush about. i wasn't at all 'smooth' in that department either in my early twenties, as i was also living in the uni's hostel. and my mom has always been the one who cooked in the kitchen, while us children just EAT, hehe. i think i only got the hang of cooking and baking after i got married when i was 25. some of my friends have probably started cooking mom-kinda-recipes at earlier age! i guess it'll naturally come to you once you have to do it :) and believe me, it's a learning process
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