I'm a sucker for a full bookshelf. I have an insatiable urge to fill my shelves with hundreds of pages worth of novels and cookbooks. I think I want to give the impression that I read and cook much more than I do. Or maybe I'm just a hoarder. In any case, I hope to reverse the "pages owned" to "pages read (or cooked)" ratio this year. If I never buy another cookbook I think I'll probably have enough recipes to last me till my 30th birthday (unless of course I start a habit of cooking for groups of ten on a daily basis). Not to mention the eternally growing archive of recipe blogs and sites (available for free). Why should I ever repeat a recipe?
Here's to a year where I tell the neglected books on my shelf, "you're worth using!" instead of adding more unread pages to the collection. I guess I better get reading...
