Cookbook Collector Hats

Cookbook collecting is a reading habit that happens to have a kitchen attached. One blogger describes owning over 3000 cookbooks before culling almost 2500 of them to a community college culinary arts program, an essay in The Millions opens with "I read cookbooks like novels", and Book Riot has a piece on reading cookbooks in bed. Spiral-bound church and community cookbooks are an active resale market on Etsy and eBay, at roughly $9 to $25 a book. The shared reference is Ina Garten's "store-bought is fine", a catchphrase mainstream enough that The New York Times ran an Ina-endorsed Thanksgiving built on it in 2022, and the reaction on Twitter was large. These hats are for the collector who is a reader first and a cook second. COOKBOOK COLLECTOR is the plain badge. The longer designs cover store-bought being fine, reading cookbooks in bed like novels, buying the cookbook and ordering the pizza, owning six cookbooks on bread while buying bread, a favorite cookbook with a spiral binding and a church name, five-star ratings handed out before cooking, a league for the preservation of splattered cookbooks, and a promise to make that someday. Two of them come in a second colorway. Every design is custom embroidered on an unstructured dad hat.