[Noche]

I have only shopped in or visited about half a dozen used book stores in my life and one owner is dead of Meningitis. I think she got this fatal disease from her handling a large volume of estate sale books and other assorted used books.

Remember how the army recruits kept dying, like forever, at that base in Monterey, California; before they finally just burned some of the barracks down?

If spinal meningitis gets into something, it stays there forever. What are your thoughts about taking someone elses used cook books into your kitchen and handling them while you prepair a meal for your family?

[plm555]

Meningitis is communicated only by direct contact with the oral secretions of someone infected with the disease. That's direct contact. Like coughing or kissing. Not handling old books.

If you don't believe me, go to the meningitis page on the Center for Disease Control (CDC) web site: http://www.cdc.gov/n...is%20contagious

[labinski]

well once I opened up a Southern Living annual cookbook, and I caught the croup.

[texascook]

Hi! I just signed up! I have purchased used cookbooks- I do check them over and if they are good shape, I go ahead and buy! Once I was in an junk store and found an old book-Confederate Receipt Book -over 100 receipts- neat old recipes - wished I had purchased it.

[plm555]

I confess to being a used book junkie -- especially cookbooks. Used bookstores don't appeal to everybody. They're often dusty and disorganized, and you have to plow through piles of junk to find the good stuff. But, like all collectors, I enjoy the hunt.

And, by the way, I think labinski is pulling our leg about getting the croup. Very funny.

[BigApotrack]

I've bought lots and lots of used cookbooks at junk stores and garage sales. The only thing I've gotten besides some wonderful recipes is FAT. I think it's contagious too because my DH is getting fat too!

[plm555]

DH?

[BigApotrack]

DH is dear husband.

[plm555]

Thank you for the clarification.

[Lisa]

I am also an avid cookbook collector. I think I have over 200 used cookbooks right now and have had many more at times, I have never caught anything from them that I can prove?! Speaking of cookbook collecting, anyone out there want to discuss what they have for trade or sale? I do!

[char34]

labinski, on 23 Feb 2005, 01:17 PM, said:

well once I opened up a Southern Living annual cookbook, and I caught the croup.

I doubt very seriously you got the croup from handling a cookbook.

[plm555]

I think that was a joke. labinski has a weird sense of humor.

[wiggys_mom]

I'm looking for Swedish cookbooks, preferably the ones from the 'old country'...or from the Swedish cooks that settled around Round Rock, just north of Austin.

[winnah2]

Thank you for the clarification. too