Recipe books.

Earlier this week I had a conversation with a local radio host about recipe books. Why? I hear you ask. Well, a friend had asked me where I keep mine and this led me to take a look at my collection – not just where they sit but also how many I have. This was a bit of a surprise, to be honest. Whilst I see them sitting neatly on the bookcase, I hadn’t counted them or considered them for a while, they are just there. Let me tell you that I stopped counting at 56, in the knowledge that there are more in a cupboard… the ones that are more like textbooks. My biggest problem is not the space they take but how seldom I take one out to consult the pages. Each book contains one or two, sometimes three recipes that we like and there are one or two books which haven’t moved for a very long time. A cull is needed, but it’s so difficult to choose those I no longer want to keep. Where to start? Answers welcome!