The 3,500 cookbooks in Gourmet magazine’s research library are becoming a part of the culinary collection at the Fales Library of New York University, one of the most extensive collections of culinary works in the country.
Conde Nast shut down Gourmet in October after 75 years of publication. Marvin J. Taylor, director of the Fales library, said he knew that Ruth Reichl, Gourmet’s editor, thought Fales would be a good home for the books, “so I got on the horn right away when I heard the magazine was closing.” He said the cookbook author Rozanne Gold gave N.Y.U. $14,000 to buy the books from Conde Nast. They’ll be brought to the library later this week in about 500 boxes.
While the Gourmet collection reaches back to the early 20th century, most of the books were published after Conde Nast bought the magazine in 1983. “It really represents what the editors saw as the best of the best,” Mr. Taylor said, because editors had already culled through the selections.
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