cookbooks.

yesterday i spent the day helping a friend clean out her house before moving to france at the end of july. this woman is probably one of the most delightful people i've ever met, and also one of the best cooks ever (after my grandmother). she has about a bajillion cookbooks, which she is thinning out before she moves, and she offered me a couple. and by a couple i mean 10. including this wonderful beauty:


yes, my dear friends, that is over 500 pages of cookie recipes. and i plan on making all of them. maybe not all, but a lot.

she also gave me this (which i plan on making one recipe a week from in preparation for our possible future.):
now, i am aware that just owning cookbooks does not make you a delicious cook, just as owning a Bible does not make you a christian. however, i am hoping that having these cookbooks at my side will help me become a world-renouwn cook such as bertie koons or annie lienert or julia child. anyone want to come over for dinner?