The American Homemaker's #1 Hobby....Collecting Cookbooks and Recipes

Specializing in community cookbooks and a guide to cookbook collecting

December 8 2003--A new booklet, Collecting CookbooksA Guide for Beginners is now available. Even though new restaurants are springing up in city after city across the country, cookbooks are the #2 book seller in America. (The Bible is still #1) A recent article by Edouard Cointreau, organizer of The World Cookbook Fair Awards, stated that 20,000 new titles of food and wine books are published each year worldwide and that there are 1 billion cookbooks sold every year. He also says the United States is by far the leading market for cookbooks.

Homemakers are still cooking; and they love to read recipes. Avis Hulvey, the author of the new booklet, is a member of several on-line cookbook and culinary lists and says total membership in these discussion groups and forums run into the tens of thousands. But the collecting bug hits hard when it comes to seeing your shelves fill up with cookbooks and you enjoy curling up in an easy chair and read a cookbook like some people read a novel.

The cookbook collecting booklet moves you through dozens of ideas about collecting: sources for finding new and used cookbooks; specializing in types such as historical, ethnic, regional, celebrity, community, etc. There are ideas for displaying, caring for, learning about collectibles and values. The guide is intended for beginners, but the depth of the 30 page booklet will supply many tips for the serious collector.

Collecting Cookbooksa Guide for Beginners is available for $3.50, postpaid, from Gingerbread House, 11216 North 500 East, Ossian, Indiana 46777 or the booklet may be ordered through our web site, http://www.cookbookmart.com.
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CONTACT INFORMATION:
Avis Hulvey
Gingerbread House Cookbooks
260-622-4868
http://www.cookbookmart.com