New York: STEWART, TABORI & CHANG, 1997. Hardcover. 109 pages. 28 x 22 cm. Signed and dated by the author on half title page. Carve and slice your way into fruit and vegetable heaven. Joost Elffers, with Saxton Freymann, bring a parade of characters made from common fruits and vegetables..... More
Philadelphia: The John C. Winston Company, 1912. First Edition. Hardcover. 175 pages. 24 x 17 cm. An adventurous book within a book. Young Mary Frances is enchanted by her friends, the Kitchen People, who explain the mysterious secrets of the kitchen. Lovely anthropomorphic kitchen utensils bring the reader along for..... More
New York: Walker and Company, 1997. Hardcover. 63 pages. 17.5 x 13.5 cm. Cod spans a thousand years and four continents. It tells of the extraordinary Basques, who first commercialized cod in medieval times; of Bartholomew Gosnold, who named Cape Cod in 1602; and of Clarence Birdseye, who founded an..... More
Berkeley: The Jargon Society Ten Speed Press, 1986. Spiral_bound. 134 pages. 23 x 19 cm. The late cookbook author Barbara Kafka says it all when she wrote: "WHITE TRASH COOKING is a marvelous and genuine book - not camp - because it sees clearly, without condescension. The food goes from..... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., 1962. Hardcover. 206 pages. 19 x 13 cm. One of our favorite children's unconventional character, Mary Poppins, who arrived on the scene in 1934, is and was all time favorite with every age. Interior and boards clean and crisp. Dust wrapper rubbed at..... More