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2001190 pages. Discover and celebrate the freshest foods in the west! Provides the information on where to buy healthy edibles produced close to home. Offers dozens of delectable recipes from innovative growers, bakers and cheesemakers, celebrated caterers and renowned restaurants including the Cafe Brio, the Empress Room and the Aerie Resort. Book
1980126 pages including index. Undated - circa 1980?. A humorous guide to professional drinking. "Spirits are meant to go with good times and good friends. Entertaining today is very much an art and as the artist you must know about the basic materials and techniques. This book has been written to help you acquire some technical skills you need to entertain in style. Give the best you have - especially the best of yourself - and you are guaranteed to always succeed." - from Introduction. Sections include: Your basic bar requirements; Technique and Measurements; Drink Definitions; Enigmania - what is it?; Drink Recipes; Enigmania answers. Moderate wear. Contents clean and unmarked. Book
1991254 pages including index. Pays homage to America's national beverage. Beginning with coffee lore and a history of the famous bean, this in-depth guide to the international world of coffee details: the art of coffee tasting; choosing coffee beans; roasters and the roasting process; grinders and grinding methods; brewing styles, including a special section on espresso; coffee serving traditions. Tight and square. Clean, bright and unmarked with lightest wear. Excellent copy. Book
1997238 pages including index. Provides answers to 167 of the most commonly asked questions about drinking water and related issues, including critical information on such subjects as health, home treatment, testing, conservation, and federal regulation." - from back cover. Author is Professor Emeritus, University of Houston. Clean, bright and unmarked with faint wear. Excellent copy. Book
197980 pages including index. A brightly presented guide to barbecue cooking and food smoking, full of practical advice on how to make, buy and cook on all types of barbecue. Explains in straight-forward terms with step by step illustrations what a barbecue is, how to build one in the kitchen or in the garden and how to get the best results. Above average wear. Two library stamps upon title page else unmarked. Good working copy. Book
1977200 pages including index. Illustrated. 100 most-asked wine questions answered. Liquor boards... who needs them? Moderate wear. Unmarked. Solid copy. Book
198162 pages. A gastronomic guide to Finland. Clean, bright and unmarked with light wear. Extensively illustrated with many colour plates. Very nice copy. Book
1979143 pages including bibliography. Traces beer's origins both geographical and philological in a gallimaufry of history and anecdote. Examines the rise and development of the pub or drinking house, and discusses the differences between 'beer' and 'ale', the introduction of hops to Britain, and the connection between brewing and holy orders. Delightfully illustrated with woodcuts, engravings and line drawings from all periods in the histoyr of beer and brewing. Book clean and unmarked with light wear. Moderate wear to dust jacket with some chipping along fore-edges. Nice clean copy. Book
2001192 pages including index and glossary. A comprehensive and fully illustrated guide to buying, selling, storing, tasting and serving wine. Packed with all the practical techniques and tips you need to get the most from wine. Contains expert advice from Le Cordon Bleu Chefs on matching wine with food. Attractive glossy illustrated boards. Clean, bright and unmarked. Zero wear. Beautiful copy. Book
199396 pages including index and bibliography. "Preserve the colors, shapes, flavors, and often even the fragrances of your favorite herbs - it's much easier than you think!" - from back cover. Clean, bright and unmarked with minimal wear. Excellent copy. Book
1975148 pages. "The sole intention of this book is to preserve a dying art. An American tradition from 1776 to 1976. A sacred technology of civilized man traced back as far as recorded history. A rapidly fading folklore, waning in the automated, mass-produced world of today." - from page III. "For the connoisseur of home brew" - from back cover. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Nice working copy. Book
195684 pages. Articles: Is the Western Alliance Breaking Up?; The Fastest-Growing City in the World - Toronto!; The Man with the $100,000 Voice - Joel Aldred; Bruce Hutchison Rediscovers the Unknown Country - Part 8; What you don't know about Sleep; Has France Learned to Drink Safely?; The Tug That Never Gave Up - The Sudbury; Watch out girls, I'm Dangerous! Nice full-page 2 colour ad for Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel. Average wear. Front cover present but detached. Page 43/44 missing. Page 55 loose but present. Back cover detached but present. Please inquire if you prefer a better copy. Magazine
1991128 pages. Index. Lovely colour photography throughout. More than 170 recipes. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
1984136 pages. Index. "... Tells you how to stock your emergency supplies cupboard and provides remedies for those across-the-board calamities, such as oversalting the vegetables, burning the pie, or the automatic oven failing to turn on - or off." - from dust jacket. Gift greetings upon front free endpaper. Average wear. Binding intact. Sound working copy. Book
1978228 pages. "An immensely detailed study of the vine and its wine since the beginning of civilization... traces its origins from wild vines to the cultivated vine, from Babylon through to all points of the compass." - from dust jacket. Gloriously and abundantly illustrated in both colour and black and white. Book in virtually new condition but for gift greetings upon verso of back free endpaper. Light wear to dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart cover. Beautiful copy of this lovely work. Book
2003136 pages. "The ultimate island escape - tasty, tropical cocktails are just an ice cube's throw away! Clean, bright and unmarked. Unread. Great copy. Book
1977246 pages. "Offers an ingenious way to order unusual dishes not ordinarily known to Westerners in Chinese restaurants." - Myra Waldo. Above-average wear but unmarked in sound binding. Decent working copy. Book
1997336 pages. Index. "More than 100 recipes for healthful tonics include both the familiar and the arcane." - from back cover. Above-average wear. Usual library markings. Binding intact. Worthy reference copy. Book
1978Features: Cord of Death - Bloody Bill Anderson tied 53 knots in his silken; Llano Estacado - the savage 'staked plains of West Texas and New Mexico; Not Even a Drink - train robbery at Dale Creek, Wyoming; Curly Bill Brocius - The Counterfeit Gunman of Tombstone; The Donner Strategy; Indian Bow and Arrow Making; I Smuggled Guns Across the Border - caught in the maelstrom of Mexican revolution, the plight of the Mormon colonists in Mexico was a harrowing experience; Eagle Mills, Nebraska; Murder on the Snake - New York Bar was an isolated river boat station until E.H. Cummings was brutally axed; Riding the High Country, by Patrick T. Tucker - Part I; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
1992235 pages. Bibliography. Illustrated in colour and black and white. "Offers a readable and information-packed guide to the world's most elegant variety of wine, and to several other luxuries as well... An ideal book for the connoisseur and armchair bon vivant." - from dust jacket. Possibly signed by author as gift greetings upon first blank leaf are initialled "A". No other markings. Book clean and bright with negligible wear. Dust jacket price-clipped. A lovely copy of this sumptuous work. Book
1960Features: Raiload News Photos; Steam News Photos; The Diesel that Did it - Electro-Motive No. 103 - the 83,764-mile test that doomed steam - super photos and article; A case of suicide - Virginia & Truckee No. 26; Peabody Short Line; The Drawbridge Dilemma - what put No. 3314 in the drink?; Photo Section; and more. Date stamp to top of front cover else unmarked. Average wear. Sound copy. Magazine
1970Features: The Seven Best Highway Diners in Canada - Parkside Service Centre, Maberley, Ontario - Kanaka Bar Restaurant, Lytton, BC - Helen's Coffee Shoppe, DeWinton, Alberta - Headingley Husky Travelcentre - Headingly, Manitoba; Gil's Truck Plaza, Quebec City - Valley Restaurant, Saint-Basile, New Brunswick - Blanche's Grill, Moosomin, Saskatchewan; Miss Nude America... is a Canadian, Dianne Boisclair; Colour ad for GM Pontiac models - Firebird, Le Mans, Grand Prix; The NHL's Ten Best Fighters - John Ferguson, Gordie Howe, Bobby Hull, Bobby Orr, Orland Kurtenbach; Ted Harris; Reggie Fleming; Eddie Shack; Derek Sanderson; Jim Dorey; Shades of Captain Marvel - fashion; Nice colour Hush Puppies ad; Nothing succeeds like failure - ask Marvin Fleishman of auctioneer Danbury Sales Ltd; Rebuilding a wreck and restoring a memory - an HS-2L flying boat and Don Foss; The Things you didn't know about Nature; Maggie Grant; Doug Wright's Family. Clean and unmarked with average wear. A sound copy. Book
1995364 pages. Bibliography. Glossary. Index. Recipe index. Abundant black and white illustrations plus some colour photographic plates. "The most comprehensive book currently available." - The Malt Advocate. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Bight and square. Nice copy. Book
197084 pages. Features: How Many Canadians Really Want Independence?; Turmoil in Quebec - the day the faces closed; Canada needs a 'National' National Hockey League; How Manitoba Turned 100 by Standing on its Head; The Outsider Moves In - Joe Borowski; Who is the Successful Canadian? - the Maclean's-Goldfarb Report; The Birth of a Movie - major article with photos of Genevieve Bujold and Paul Almond; ; The Battle for a Place Under Your Christmas Tree - an informative snapshot of Canada's toy industry; Food & Drink - Diets by Damned; Nice full-page colour photo ad for the Ski-Doo lineup of snowmobiles; Excellent uncommon full-page colour photo ad for CBC's The National with large photos of Lloyd Robertson and George Finstad; Sam the Record Man begins dealing in tapes - Should You?; Nice colour photo Christmas Coke ad on back cover. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
194878 pages. Articles: Between the bear and the dragon - Chiang Kai-shek's power in China has faded - article with great photos; Collier's Sports - the low-down on baseball salaries; Hollywood Goes to Rome - shooting the Cagliostro movie in Rome; Toward Peace in Labor - how the Labor-Management relations Act has worked so far; John N. Garner's Story (part 3) - reveals the former Vice-Presidents's attitude toward the Roosevelt lend-spend policy and the third term; Whether Man - New York's Blizzard of '47 put the forecasters on a spot; Hard Times Come To Wall Street - why the nation's money center is in the red in this boom era. Fiction: Jeff Coongate and the Stolen Crony; The Day Before Sunday; The Mysterious Way (part 5 of 6); Blessed are the Merciful; Dark Red for Love; Meet My Family. Nice ads include: The 1948 Studebaker (inside front cover); RKO movies of the month; nice diamond ad featuring portrait of Mrs. Lewis McCracken, the former Miss Francine Whitten, of Washington, D.C.; Philco radio-phonographs; Ford Cars (nice color photo one-page ad in Europe; Lucky Strike cigarettes; Rummy soft drink; Ballantine Ale - nice color one-page ad with cowboy theme; Great two-page color-phot ad for Heinz soups (they offered turtle soup back then!); Hamm's Beer; Stewart-Warner radio-phonographs; Brewer's Best beer; Bicycle playing cards; Emerson radios; National Guard recruiting ad; Miller High Life beer; Trav-ler radios; Clark's Tendermint chewing gun; Chesterfield cigarette ad on back cover features Charles Coburn, Ann Todd, Ethel Barrymore, Louis Jourdan, VAlli and Gregory Peck. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book