You tend to get all your recipes online these days.
That's fine, but if it's been years since you cracked an actual cookbook, you don't really need them anymore. Keep them if you like the way they look and have the storage space, but if you don't, embrace the way you cook now and let them go.
What should I do with old cookbooks?
Here's what to do with cookbooks you don't want anymore.
- Sell them. If you have, say, a first edition of a vintage, now-famous cookbook or one by a popular new author in pristine condition, you may be able to sell it. ...
- Donate them. ...
- Offer them up for free. ...
- Recycle them. ...
- Repurpose them.
Is there any value in old cookbooks?
Vintage cookbooks
Even the most widely used cookbooks from the 1950s and 1960s can command high prices. Good condition copies of Betty Crocker's Picture Cook Book are highly prized (prices range from $10 to $450 on AbeBooks). ... Collectible cookbooks can range from high camp, Liberace Cooks!
