# The Cookbook Collector

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- Book: [The Cookbook Collector](https://www.bookquiver.com/allegra-goodman/the-cookbook-collector) ([The Cookbook Collector.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/allegra-goodman/the-cookbook-collector.md))
- Authors: [Allegra Goodman](https://www.bookquiver.com/allegra-goodman)
- Publisher: Atlantic Books
- ISBN: 978-18-4887-540-1
- Published: 2012-04-01
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Two sisters, opposite in every way: twenty-eight-year-old Emily is a CFO of an internet start-up, twenty-three-year-old Jess is a graduate student in philosophy. Pragmatic Emily is making a fortune in Silicon Valley, romantic Jess works in an antiquarian bookstore. Emily’s boyfriend is fantastically successful. Jess’s boyfriend is an environmental activist. But the dot-com bubble must burst, while Jess’s work on a cache of rare cookbooks uncovers strange erotic drawings and marginalia that bring her closer to their mysterious collector… Rich in ideas and characters, The Cookbook Collector is a novel of substitutions: reading cookbooks instead of cooking, speculating instead of creating, collecting instead of living. But above all it is about holding on to what is real in a virtual world: love that lasts.