N.b. This is after weeding out about a dozen earlier this year as I ran out of shelf, and a dozen last year, and does not include two volumes containing probably hundreds of recipes I've copied from 3-4 dozen books belonging to my mother and other libraries.
We often turn to Apicius for general tips on cooking certain exotic meats, and occasionally use them in an everyday setting, though not with exactitude We've also tried early recipes from The British Museum Cookbook and various medieval recipe books.
inamac has answered the poll for the household, where I reckon we have about 150 cookery books of various types.
Firstly, I know how to cook what I want to without recourse to detailed instructions. Secondly I much prefer meals with individual components to meals where several different ingredients are mushed into one (there are exceptions). Thirdly, bunn has thirteen cookbooks, one of which in particular is very useful on how to cook various foodstuffs. Finally, if I do need to look up how to cook something, I can always use the internet.
Mine is a bit of an estimate. I have to try very hard not to keep puying more books all the time though. I've been very restrained over the last couple of years and have even got rid of a few, so I've got about forty at the moment. It might be more though.
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Admittedly a lot are Sainsburys paperbacks - heavily used.
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Closer inspection on my part reveals this to mean 'thirteen'.
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I had 158 the last time I counted them properly, which was in 1996...
I've acquired one or two more since then so I'd guess somewhere between 300 to 400.
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(Also: I knew someone would say that the scale didn't go high enough; and I thought it would probably be you!)
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And that is why I choose procurement over finance as a career - we get to employ people to do the calculations for us :-D
It occurred to me that about 15 of them actually belong to Bacchus, so my estimate was a little high unless you count us as a household :-)
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appears I may have slightly under-estimated
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