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1968ref. TB33813New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1968. First Edition. First Printing Fine in decorated bright red cloth covered boards with black text on the spine. An octavo measuring 8 1/4 by 5 1/2 inches. In a very good price clipped dust jacket with two 1/8 inch deep chips at the upper corners of the spine area with two shallow closed tears to the lower edge of the spine area and a 1 1/2 wide stain at the lower edge of the front panel. 424 pages followed by a 16 page index. Illustrated with a section of black and white photographs. A very clean tight and handsome copy with no prior ownership markings or hardened food of any kind. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
1973ref. 4916New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1973. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Maroon cloth covered boards. Near fine in very good dust wrapper. 340 pages. 24 x 17 cm. Jaffrey's first cookbook which was shepherded to publication by Judith Jones. Madhur Jaffrey was an award winning actress before her career took a turn as the Indian food ambassador for American cooks. After an article appeared in the New York Times in 1966 about Jaffrey and her cooking her career was forever changed. Here she provides sample menus notes on spices and flavoring recipes a list of sources and a glossary of terms. This cookbook was recently highlighted in the New York Times - T Magazine article "The 25 Most Influential Cookbooks From the Last 100 Years" 11/17/24. Interior and boards crisp and clean. Dust wrapper very lightly rubbed at edges. Covered in protective mylar. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
1978ref. 4469New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1978. Fourth Printing. Hardcover. Rose illustrated boards. Near fine in very good dust wrapper. 285 pages. 24 x 17 cm. Jaffrey's first cookbook which was shepherded to publication by Judith Jones. Madhur Jaffrey was an award winning actress before her career took a turn as the Indian food ambassador for American cooks. After an article appeared in the New York Times in 1966 about Jaffrey and her cooking her career was forever changed. Here she provides sample menus notes on spices and flavoring recipes a list of sources and a glossary of terms. This cookbook was recently highlighted in the New York Times - T Magazine article "The 25 Most Influential Cookbooks From the Last 100 Years" 11/17/24. Interior and boards crisp and clean. Dust wrapper very lightly rubbed at spine. Covered in protective mylar. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
2000ref. 229482000. Bourdain Anthony. Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly 2000 a work by the beloved American chef documenting professional kitchen culture in late twentieth-century American restaurant life. Emerging from Bourdain's experience as a New York chef the book presents an account of culinary work that foregrounds hierarchy discipline and the lived realities of restaurant staff. The text situates cooking within a broader cultural framework addressing masculinity class and identity as expressed through the structure and practices of the professional kitchen and offering insight into the social composition of culinary labor forces including immigrant and working-class participants. Bourdain Anthony. Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly. New York: Bloomsbury 2000. First edition first printing. Octavo 312 pages. Original black cloth boards with silver spine lettering in original pictorial dust jacket featuring a photographic portrait of the author in chef's attire. The text is structured as a sequence of autobiographical and thematic chapters combining narrative accounts of the author's early culinary experiences professional advancement and personal challenges with commentary on restaurant operations. Content includes descriptions of kitchen hierarchy food preparation practices staff interactions and working conditions alongside discussions of menu development sourcing and service. The volume incorporates both narrative passages and direct commentary presenting detailed observations of restaurant environments and personnel. Published at the turn of the twenty-first century this work reflects a shift in food writing toward examination of labor production and professional culture rather than solely culinary aesthetics. The book contributed to broader public awareness of restaurant operations and the individuals involved in food production influencing subsequent media representations of chefs and kitchen work. It supports research into food studies labor history and cultural representations of the culinary industry. Light edge wear to boards and minor surface scuffing to dust jacket; binding tight; overall very good condition. A significant example of contemporary culinary writing documenting the internal culture of professional kitchens. unknown books
1919ref. 222921919. Gentile Maria. The Italian Cook Book: The Art of Eating Well 1919 documents the early transmission of Italian culinary practice into American domestic life following mass Italian immigration in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Written in English with bilingual Italian headings the work presents Italian cuisine to an American readership at a moment when immigrant foodways were entering broader cultural circulation. As a female-authored cookbook produced in the immediate post-World War I period it identifies women's domestic labor as a central site for the preservation and adaptation of ethnic identity. The volume supports research into immigration history food studies and women's roles in shaping household economy and cultural continuity. Gentile Maria. The Italian Cook Book: The Art of Eating Well. Practical Recipes of the Italian Cuisine: Pastries Sweets Frozen Delicacies and Syrups. New York: Italian Book Co. 1919. First edition. Text in English with bilingual Italian headings. Single volume 92 pages. Bound in black pebbled boards with gilt title stamped to front cover 8vo. The book opens with a preface linking Italian domestic practice to wartime conditions stating that "the home of an Italian family. has proved more than once to be a model of food economy" and positions its recipes as "palatable healthy and economic." Contents include foundational dishes such as brodo polenta and risotti alongside pastries sweets and syrups reflecting both everyday sustenance and celebratory traditions. Recipes are written in a direct instructional style intended for practical household use. Published during a period when Italian cuisine was not yet fully integrated into mainstream American food culture this work contributes to the early documentation and dissemination of regional Italian cooking in the United States. The emphasis on frugality and efficiency reflects broader economic concerns of the postwar era while the inclusion of traditional dishes demonstrates the retention of cultural practices within immigrant households. Female authorship further situates the text within the gendered framework of domestic instruction and culinary authority in the early twentieth century. Spine replaced with black tape with text block intact and covers and pages clean; overall good to fair condition. This volume provides early evidence of Italian American culinary adaptation and the role of women in shaping American food culture. unknown books
1969ref. 225261969. Women's History Cookbook Warren Mildred Evans. The Art of Southern Cooking: A Collection of New Traditional and Old Family Recipes. Garden City New York: Double Day and Company 1969. First edition. Illustrated with drawings by Rocco Negri. Bound in publisher's mustard-yellow cloth with gilt lettering to spine in original pictorial dust jacket. 274 pages. 8vo. Mildred Evans Warren a Mississippi-born and Georgia raised woman presents a carefully curated anthology of Southern cuisine through her American travels blending antebellum family recipes with modern mid-20th-century adaptations. Her work is notable for documenting culinary traditions rooted in the American South's agrarian heritage while also reflecting the postwar evolution of home cooking as processed goods refrigeration and changing lifestyles altered the way Southerners prepared their meals. Recipes are grouped by ingredient and course ranging from "Old Fashioned Plantation Dishes" and "Company Suppers" to seafood game and desserts including historical staples such as spoon bread Hoppin' John and pecan pie. Warren's prose is warm conversational and instructive often including anecdotal notes on the dishes' origins and family associations helping to preserve the cultural history embedded in Southern foodways. Light wear to jacket binding tight and pages clean. Overall very good condition. A desirable first edition of an important regional cookbook valuable both for its recipes and for its preservation of Southern culinary heritage during a period of significant cultural change. unknown books
1999ref. 44738Beijing: Foreign Languages Press 1999-2000. First Edition. Eight volumes; small oblong quartos 19.5x21cm.; uniformly bound in glossy photo-illustrated spiral-bound boards; color illus. throughout. All in Fine condition. Nearly complete set of the series lacking only the "Family Banquet" volume. Bilingual text in Chinese and English. Foreign Languages Press unknown books
1973ref. 182231973. Child Julia. The French Chef Cooking Demonstrations 1973 documents Julia Child's public role in expanding French cooking for American audiences through television books and live instructional appearances. Issued for a Museum Women's League event benefiting the Mid-Fairfield County Youth Museum the pamphlet belongs to the cultural sphere of women's civic fundraising domestic education and postwar American food media offering evidence of how Child's televised authority moved into community institutions and public demonstration spaces. Child Julia. The French Chef Cooking Demonstrations. Mid-Fairfield County Youth Museum / Museum Women's League 1973. Pamphlet. 24 pages. 5.5 x 8.5 inches. Front cover features the title with wine-and-cheese illustration; rear cover reads "Bon Appetit!" beside a wine bottle and soufflé. Opening text states "It is with great pleasure and pride that we present to you for your enjoyment Julia Child The French Chef." Includes recipes by Child prepared to accompany the demonstration a black-and-white photograph of Child in her kitchen and blue-ink directions to the event on the inside rear wrapper. The pamphlet places Child's popular instructional persona within a localized women-led museum benefit showing how celebrity cooking educational programming and civic cultural work overlapped in the early 1970s. Toning to front and rear endpapers; small stains to front and rear wrappers not affecting images or text; good. Useful documentation of Julia Child's public demonstration circuit and the reception of televised culinary culture through women's civic organizations. unknown books
1954ref. 5116New York: The Viking Press 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Blue and brown cloth covered boars. Very good in good dust wrapper. 184 pages. 22 x 15 cm. Recipes of Jesse Willis Lewis African-American chef from New Orleans as set down by his employers Edith Ballard daughter of Jesse's employer. The book showcases Jesse's passion for the rich culinary traditions of the Deep South particularly those rooted in New Orleans and surrounding regions. It is packed with recipes that reflect the diverse cultural influences of Creole cooking including African French Spanish and Caribbean elements. According to Toni Tipton-Martin in The Jemima Code pp.71 Jesse Willis Lewis cooked Creole dishes and Gulf Coast specialties that he had learned at his mother's knee. This cookbook was recently highlighted in the New York Times - T Magazine article "The 25 Most Influential Cookbooks From the Last 100 Years" 11/17/24. Previous owner wrote a recipe for corn bread on the last front free end paper in pencil. Handwritten recipe for Remoulade Sauce written on lined paper laid in. Interior clean boards corners bumped. Dust wrapper rubbed at edges with 1 cm. loss at head of spine. Covered in protective mylar. The Viking Press hardcover books
1906ref. 2222192First edition Small octavo. Pictorial red gilt stamped cloth with onlay of a man perched on the edge of a large cocktail glass ready to jump in. Pictorial dust jacket. Pictorial half title page reads: "Thor' The Rye" A Guide For Thirsty Pilgrims In The Rye-Field. Fourteen illustrations by Forrest Halsey Tom Browne Jean Paleologue A. G. Learned Reo Bennett Charles Forbell Eugene T. Parker Albert Levering and J. Aquila Kempster. Text with green pictorial borders depicting a naked woman frolicking among grape vines. Very good. 95 pages. No signatures or bookplates. Pictorial endpapers with spider web design. Henry Altemus Company books
1891ref. 2222104First edition. Small octavo. Original green cloth over pictorial boards showing a child standing on a chair opening a chafing dish. No dust jacket. Good corners worn. 40 pages. No signatures or bookplates. Bitting page 337. Not located in Cagle. Frederick A. Stokes Company hardcover books
1866ref. 2221890First edition. Octavo. Original brown cloth stamped lettering in blind on both covers; gilt stamped spine ends chipped; worn at joints. No dust jacket. Ink signature of E. S. Ramsay on front free endpaper. Good a few light stains in text. 298 pages 2 pages of ads at end. Not located in Bitting. Printed by W. Clowes and Sons. Richard Bentley hardcover books
2011ref. 2812New York: HarperCollins 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. Cream boards red cloth binding. Very good in very good dust wrapper. 356 pages. 23.5 x 16.5 cm. In this lively sweeping account that spans the early seventies to the present day David Darlington employs a sharp journalistic eye to profile a group of wine pioneers. A tale of vision and disillusion brinksmanship and pragmatism nature and business politics and culture An Ideal Wine is a fascinating look at an ever-evolving industry that reflects the values of our society and our civilization. In protective mylar cover. HarperCollins hardcover books
1947ref. 5135Boston: LITTLE BROWN AND COMPANY 1947. First edition. Hardcover. Gray boards illustrated in red and blue. Very good/fine. Nicol Phoebe. 322 pages. 21 x 14 cm. Lucas was the first female to graduate Le Cordon Bleu and the first woman featured in a cooking show on television. A predecessor to Julia Child Lucas shares the "art" of French cooking for the American home in this well organized cook book including a glossary of French cooking terms. Interior lightly toned. Covers rubbed at edges lightly soiled. LITTLE, BROWN AND COMPANY hardcover books
1808ref. S2172n.p.:: n.d. ca. 1808 1808. 209 x 126 mm. 8vo. 213-356 pp. 6 folding plates. Later paper wrappers; extremities rubbed. AS IS. Article on cooking extracted from Volume 42 of Johann Georg Krunitz's Oeconomische Encyklopaedie. The plates depict distilling equipment large-scale stoves double-boilers pots and pans pressing equipment and others. The first 73 volumes of this massive work originally appeared in Berlin 1793-1798. Krunitz was born in Berlin and studied at Gottingen Halle and Frankfurt where he took his doctorate in medicine in 1749 and initially practiced. He removed to Berlin in 1769 where he died twenty-seven years later. Brit. Mus. Readex XIV 449; Hirsch III pp. 559; Kress Library of Business and Economics B.125; Poggendorff I col. 1323. n.d. (ca. 1808)] unknown books
1837ref. 5246New Haven: N Booth 1837. First Edition. As issued. A very good copy with some browning a the margins. Broadside. A woodblock illus . of the apparatus driven by a horse is the illustration. A broadside advertisement for Booth's new horse driven cider mill. The device is illustrated with a woodcut illustration meas. appx. 4 x 5 inches that shows the horse at work driving the machine. Below the illustration is an explanation of the design construction and materials. Booth offered to build the cider mill or sell the rights and plans to individuals or townships to construct their own. The broadside meas. appx. 11 1/2 x 16 1/4 inches. [N Booth ?] unknown books
1959ref. 5074Mount Vernon NY: The Peter Pauper Press 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. Illustrated boards. Very good in good dust wrapper. McCrea Ruth. 60 pages. 19 x 11.5 cm. Remarkable period graphics. Crisp clean interior cover lightly soiled. Dust wrapper soiled. The Peter Pauper Press hardcover books
2016ref. 2364New York: Oxmoor House 2016. First Edition. Paperback. Color illustrated large format paperback. Near fine. 256 pages. 23 x 20 cm. Delightful homemade sweets are the perfect way to spread some holiday joy. Color illustrated throughout. Oxmoor House paperback books
1892ref. 5041New York: Charles L. Webster & Company 1892. First Edition. Hardcover. Embossed and illustrated cloth boards. Very good. 122 pages 5 pg publishers ads 12 x 16 cm. An entertaining view into the dishes served in the mid-1800s with recipes ranging from Omelet au Kirsch to Eggs a la Duchesse. Filipino the chef at Delmonico's provides precise measurements - uncommon during this era. A couple of pages with food stains otherwise clean. Boards rubbed at edges light toning. BROWN 2506. Charles L. Webster & Company hardcover books
1938ref. 25741938. Cards. Illustrated cards. Very good. 21 x 13.5 cm. The T.S.S. "HECTOR" was a set of four sister ships built for Alfred Holt and Company of Liverpool - part of the Blue Funnel Line. Sister ships were Sarpedon Patroclus and Antenor - all named after characters in Homer's Iliad. The stunning nighttime illustration that extends from the verso to the front cover is the work of Walter Thomas 1894 - 1971 - A Liverpool borne marine painter and illustrator who painted in both oil and watercolour. The dinner menu for Sunday December 25th 1938 was crowded with a wide array of European inspired delights and many fish dishes - Caviare Baton Tortue Claire Tay Salmon Cape Lobster along with Lamb Turkey Pheasant Capon and an assortment of desserts. Light foxing to interior covers clean. unknown books
2012ref. 1408462Bellevue: The Cooking Lab 2012. First Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Quartos Two Volumes. In Very Good plus condition with a Very Good slipcase. Set consists of one larger hardcover volume and one smaller spiral-bound softcover. Both volumes with white pictorial covers and black lettering housed in a white slipcase. Slipcase shows some shelf wear along bottom and side panels with mild bumping along edges. Hardcover volume shows some mild shelf wear and faint scuffs to boards. Negligible wear to softcover volume. Text blocks clean. CONTENTS: Vol. I xxv 2-379 ii-liii 1 pages; Vol. II "Kitchen Manual" ix 2-220 pages. Shelved in Room F Elephant. 1408462. Special Collections - Upstairs. The Cooking Lab hardcover books
1910ref. 1940c. 1910's. Hardcover. Brown pebbled boards. Very good. 85 pages. 16 x 12.5 cm. Cookbook with full page illustrations of company's other products as well. Fly Screen Potato Masher Press & Strainer MacQueen's Patent Shower Bath. "Introducing the Keystone Beaters - Ten Machines in One: cake-beater churn egg-beater ice cream freezer fruit-whip light dough-kneader cream-whip drink-mixer potato-masher and vegetable-whip". Clean crisp copy. Four pages detached but clean and present. hardcover books
1884ref. 5575Monroe Michigan: Monroe Democrat Print 1884. Octavo 23.75 x 15.25 cm. 35 i pages. Title from cover. Index. FIRST & ONLY EDITION. A community cookbook with one hundred eighty recipes the majority of them attributed. Arranged as a series of "bills of fare" for meals headed Breakfast Lunch Party Coffee High Tea Supper and one Hallow e'en Party. Some repetitions occur therefore both Fig Cake and Charlotte Russe for instance are deemed compatible with several menu lists. Examples of potential interest: Celery Salad with mustard dressing Potato Rolls Panned Oysters Fried Lobster Risoles Boiled Hominy French Oyster Pie Ice Cream Cocoanut Cake Pineapple Float Almond Ice Cream. Monroe is the seat of Monroe County on the shores of Lake Erie a stone's throw from Dearborn and Detroit to the north. How the young ladies knew one another is not revealed; what their introductory remarks do make clear is that the impetus for their gatherings was "the desire of having a good time together" and that for publishing a cookbook was to raise money for an excursion possibly "a trip to Europe". Categorically not a charitable cause then – at least not in the conventional sense. Several pages chipped dog-eared or stained. Stapled in rose paper wrappers with black titling; spine reinforced at an early date. Still not unnattractive. Good or better. Rare. OCLC locates four copies; in neither Cook Brown nor Cagle. Monroe Democrat Print unknown books
1929ref. 1164Sandusky Ohio: The Citizen Banking Co. 1929. Hardcover. Maroon boards. Very good. 160 pages. 23.5 x 15.5 cm. Recipes and remedies furnished by the Ladies of Emmanuel's Evangelical Church. Numerous local advertisements. Black and white photo of the church along with the historical account of the church's development. Interior crisp and clean cover lightly rubbed. The Citizen Banking Co. hardcover books
1971ref. 170461New York: Modern Promotions Ottenheimer Publishers 1971. Softcover. Good. Later printing. Quarto. 480pp. Pictorial wrappers. Pages age-toned corners flared and creased sticker offsetting on front wrapper a good to very good copy. Barbecues Budget foods Buffets Cookies Desserts Meat Fish and poultry Pies Salads Sandwiches and Snacks. Modern Promotions (Ottenheimer Publishers unknown books