A retired forensic anthropologist who according to Guinness World Records owns more cookbooks than anyone else.
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COOKBOOK COLLECTION – THAI WORLD CUISINE & SOUL FOOD• Malaika Malz
Serious Mealtimes / Stephanie Cameron
I like to think that there’s a special place in the realm of obsessive behavior reserved for collections and their collectors: those men and women who are hell-bent on collecting objects that follow a specific theme such as bottle caps snow globes or anything Elvis-related. When we were thinking about who else to add to our own little collection of culinary obsessives it seemed fitting to find a collector of some sort and so we came across Sue Jimenez a retired forensic anthropologist who according to Guinness World Records owns the largest cookbook collection in the world.
Sue's record dates back to 2013 when she owned 2970 cookbooks; five years later she claims to own nearly 7000 all of which she keeps in her home. (She's quick to point out however that this is an "unofficial" count and will likely remain so as the process of having them authenticated is a bit of a hassle.) As a collection hers isn't like a stamp book; that is these cookbooks are meant to be used. For the most part her books aren't antiques so while some of the pamphlets she owns are so old that the pages are crumbly they're not tucked away in clear plastic covers that are forbidden to be read like my cousin's old comic book collection. In addition to using the books as they were intended Sue also occasionally writes about them on her blog The Vintage Cookbookery.
