It’s raining men! Er, I mean cookbooks!

by Aimee on October 23, 2008

Guess what I just got in the mail. My Good Cook Book Club enrollment shipment. I just joined and check out my booty!

Like I really needed another cookbook. I can’t help myself though. My Amazon wish list is enormous. I should really say wish lists are enormous. I love books in period. What usually happens when I take up a new hobby is I’ll go out and buy 50+ books on the subject. My budget has prohibited this instinctive behavior, so I decided to join the Good Cook Book Club because it’s a cheap way to get a load of books. The way the program works is you get four books for $1 a piece when you sign up to become a member. As a member you agree to buy two more books in the next year. You also are offered the option to buy a fifth book up front for half off the publisher’s price which then lowers your commitment to buy only one book within the next year. If you’re going to join I really suggest that you pick that option.

I picked The Art and Soul of Baking by Sur La Table and Cindy Mushet, Jacques Torres’ A Year in Chocolate, The Modern Baker by Nick Malgieri, and Martha Stewart’s Cooking School by the Domestic Goddess herself. Martha Stewart’s Cooking School hadn’t been shipped because it just got pulished on the 21st, so I’m expecting it sometime in the next week. I also ordered French-Inspired Jewelry by Kaari Meng because I reeeally wanted that book.

One thing to note, if you check out their selection today and find five books you have to have, order them now. I was sitting on the fence for a couple of months about joining and a bunch of books that I had really wanted to get were no longer carried by the Club when I was finally ready to join. The selection of books that is available does change. It all worked out OK because there were some new selections that I am glad to get, but still it’s something to keep in mind.

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