Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1909. Hardcover. 161 pages. 18 x 12 cm. The chafing dish, from the Old French chauffer, "to make warm", was a godsend to bachelors and bacheloretes who needed a quick and simple way to cook supper in cramped apartments. Chafing dishes were also popular with..... More
New York: Gramercy Publishing Company, 1955. Hardcover. 314 pages. 21 x 14.5 cm. Introduction by Clifton Fadiman. A feast of cheese recipes, legends, anecdotes and history by the same Bob Brown who, with his wife Eleanor, composed Culinary Americana. Interior clean and crisp, dust wrapper rubbed at edges. In protective..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1972. Wallner, John. First Edition. Hardcover. 326 pages. 23.5 x 16.5 cm. Signed and inscribed on half title page. The French co-author of Mastering the Art of French Cooking - Julia Child's partner in crime, Beck adapts old French family specialties for the American palate..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1980. First American Edition. Hardcover. 244 pages. 21 x 15 cm. With an introduction by James Beard. Together in one volume, three early classics of cookery from England's most famous food writer, who inspired and influenced a whole generation of cooks - Elizabeth David. As..... More
New York: Harper & Row, publishers, 1984. Rose, Sir Francis. Hardcover. 288 pages. 21.5 x 14.5 cm. 30th anniversary reprint edition featuring a nine page forward by M.F.K. Fisher. Born is San Francisco in 1877, Toklas made her way to France after the 1906 Earthquake. Toklas arrived in Paris in..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. 261 Pages. 22 x 15 cm. Laid in: Black and white 1981 Annie Leibovitz photo of Fisher and her cat. "This photograph may be used or reproduced only in connection with a review of the Knopf edition of AS THEY WERE..... More