If you have a little patience and a taste for cookbooks, make a short trip to Daedalus Books in Columbia.
Last weekend, I wandered the stacks for more than an hour with my brother-in-law, a book lover who is always an inspiration to stop at the bookstore that I drive past every week.
Daedalus sells remainders and other odd-lot books and music. That means you can't guarantee what you'll find, but you might always discover something interesting. Daedalus isn't selling dollar books. It fills a spot where the books are cheaper than retail, but still good enough to worth your time and your money.
Last weekend, they had a pile of the Food Matters Cookbook that I recommend. Priced about the same as Amazon, but you can cook from it tonight if you stop at Daedalus today. Plus, you can check out hundreds of other books, including some that I recognized like One Big Table by Molly O'Neill and Local Breads by Daniel Leader.