![Item #4341 [PHILADELPHIA] [PURE FOOD] [TRADE CARD] THE PURE FOOD DAIRY and LIGHT LUNCH CAFE](https://lizzyoungbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4341.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1721493994)
Philadelphia: c. 1920. Cards. 8.5 x 15.5 cm. Color illustrated Trade Card featuring a highly accessorized woman. This restaurant, located at 54 N. 13th Street (Next to St. George's Hall), and serving "Pure Food - properly Cooked, Prompt Attention and Right Prices - Special Lunch Bill of Fare Each Day..... More
Racine, WI: London Depot, 1905. (1 page, 27.5 x 21 cm) A letter from the Horlick Food Company addressed to Rev. Wm. D. Mosman of New Haven, CT. The letter is typewritten and advertises the company's various milk products by offering to send samples of their Malted Milk product in..... More
Los Angeles: California Fruit Growers Exchange, 1934. Staplebound. 40 pages. 19 x 12.5 cm. Introducing oranges and lemons to everyday households, Sunkist and the California Fruit Growers Exchange stamped "Sunkist" on the skins of their product. It is interesting to note that on the title page of this pamphlet we..... More
Los Angeles: California Fruit Growers Exchange, 1937. Staplebound. 48 pages. 19 x 12.5 cm. An extensive and beautifully designed pamphlet reporting the healthful aspects of Sunkist Oranges as well as the brand new Sunkist building in Los Angeles. Filled with recipes including salads, drinks, pies, cakes, marmalades, and more. Color..... More
Johnstown, NY: Charles B. Knox Gelatine Co. Inc., 1941. Staplebound. 13 pp. 21.5 x 14.5 cm. The Knox Build-Up Plan is a quick and informative health booklet released by Knox Gelatine advertising the health benefits of drinking unflavored Knox Gelatine in water or fruit juice. Claiming the powder to be..... More
Johnstown, NY: Charles B. Knox Gelatine Co. Inc., 1928. Unpaginated. 8.5 x 6 cm. This small , fold out, Knox Gelatine recipe collection advertises the product for its health benefits. The product descriptions separate the Knox products into their own category away from competitor's products, and label themselves as the..... More
![Item #4537 [HEALTH] [JELLO] The Health Value of Knox Sparkling Gelatine; High authorities prove...](https://lizzyoungbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4537.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1745356418)
Johnstown, NY: 1924. Staplebound. 23 pages. 14 x 10.5 cm. Although Sparkling Gelatine and regular gelatine have the same nutritional properties, Charles B. Knox company attempted to frame their product as a supplement for infants, children, and adults. This booklet also attempts to claim their product relieves Rickets and Scurvy..... More
![Item #2979 [MILK] [HEALTH] Here's a Treat for You. Elizabeth Hallam Bohn](https://lizzyoungbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2979.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1715634666)
New York, NY: 1925. Loose_leaf. 16 x 8.5 cm. Bottled milk advertisng campaign. Two sided advertising pamphlet includes recipes from Elizabeth Hallam Bohn, a lecturer at the Teacher's College at Columbia University and member of the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce. Printed on the bottom of the page is the slogan..... More
New York: The Free Press, 2002. Hardcover. 258 pages. 24 x 16 cm. Fernandez-Armesto covers what he calls the eight great revolutions in the world history of food: the origins of cooking, the ritualization of eating, the inception of herding, the invention of agriculture, the rise of inequity, the long-range..... More
New York: The Free Press, 2002. Hardcover. 258 pages. 24 x 16 cm. Fernandez-Armesto covers what he calls the eight great revolutions in the world history of food: the origins of cooking, the ritualization of eating, the inception of herding, the invention of agriculture, the rise of inequity, the long-range..... More
General Mills, Inc., 1934. PH. Staplebound wraps. 52 pages. Beginning with an endorsement by Raymond Hertwig, Secretary of the Committee on Food of the American Medical Association, stating: "Bleached White Flour Wholesome," letters of recommendations by two doctors, and a forward by "Betty Crocker," this recipe book is filled with..... More
Edinburgh: J. B. Fairgrieve & Co., 1929. Twenty Second and Enlarged Edition. Hardcover. 314 pages. 21.5 x 15 cm. A classic cookery book from Mrs E.W. Kirk full of recipes for many different meals and ailments. Milk soup, mock turtle soup, jellied tongue, gateau of meat, hashed venison, marshmallows, and..... More
New York: Henry Hold and Company, 1992. First American Edition. Hardcover. 246 pages. 24 x 16 cm. "Tell me what you eat and I'll tell you who you are," French gastronome Brillat-Savarin declared. This world tour of food culture shows how food relates to sex, to the culinary enigmas of..... More
London: T. Osborne, 1746. Hardcover. 398 pages. 17 x 10 cm. Early English works at the intersection of dietetics, domestic household management, and what we could now call nutritional advice, framed entirely within Galenic humoral theory and early modern medical practice. Because Moffet died in 1604, the original text is..... More
Indianapolis: The Bobby’s-Merrill Company Inc., 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. 210 pages. 21 x 15 cm. From the author of The Joy Of Cooking, this follow up to her first smash hit found its audience with busy cooks - working women, daughters helping out at home, students, homemakers without help, and..... More
Chicago: American Maize Products Co., 1923. Wraps. 29 pages. 20.5 x 11.5 cm. Originally Western Glucose Co., located in Hammond Indiana. In 1908 Royal Baking Powder Co. purchased a majority of the stock and changed its name to American Maize Products Co. or AMAIZO. By 1930 the company had over..... More
Montreal, P.Q. The Borden Company, Limited, [1920s]. staplebound wraps. (32 pages, 12.5 x 16.5 cm) A corporate cookbook from The Borden Company, advertising their St. Charles brand evaporated milk with recipes from “every part of the country” and “by leading food experts”. It opens with a brief introduction about Gail..... More
Montreal, P.Q. The Borden Company, Limited, 1920s. Staplebound. 32 pages, 12.5 x 16.5 cm. A corporate cookbook from The Borden Company, advertising their St. Charles brand evaporated milk with recipes from “every part of the country” and “by leading food experts”. It opens with a brief introduction about Gail Borden..... More
Minneapolis, MN: Buckeye Publishing Company, 1879. 464 pages. Dedicated to “the plucky housewives of 1876, who master their work instead of allowing it to master them”, this recipe book is chock-full of canning, bread-making, game preparing, meat curing, and beauty enhancing recipes from the housewives of the 1800’s. Published by..... More
Canton, OH: The Mason Mfg. Co., 1916. Staplebound wraps. Unpaginated [18 pp]. 21.5 x 14 cm. This Challenge Churn advertisement book utilizes a whole slew of marketing techniques to appeal to its possible consumer, reading almost like a modern day infomercial. Describing 10,000 dollar bond of guarantee, its 500 dollar..... More
New York: H. Dayton, 1860. Hardcover. 136 pages. 23 x 15 cm. Truly an indispensable companion, this guide has tips and tricks to work through everything from nosebleeds to scarlet fever, applesauce to roast lobsters, making clothing dye to pickling cucumbers. As well as diagnoses, remedies, and recipes - guides..... More
Johnstown, NY: Knox Gelatine, 1938. staplebound. 23 pages, 11.5 x 15 cm. Presenting Knox Quickies, a recipe booklet from Knox Gelatine, gives the reader pages of recipes to make utilizing their plain gelatin product. Along the bottom of the pages runs the consistent warning to avoid their competitors gelatin desserts..... More
![Item #4971 [REPURPOSED] Commonplace Book](https://lizzyoungbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4971.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1773695224)
Cumbria, England: 1840s-1940s. Paperback. Unpaginated. 25 x 20 cm. Charming commonplace book originally used to practice and refine written communications. This book was then reused to store recipes and remedies, pasted in and written in. Covers heavily rubbed, pages disbound but intact. More
Kansas City, Missouri: UNITY SCHOOL OF CHRISTIANITY, 1923. First Edition. Hardcover. 339 pages. 20 x 13.5 cm. This cookbook germinated through the spiritual organization - Unity - founded by Charles and Myrtle Fillmore in 1889. Growing out of Transcendentalism and becoming a part of the New Thought movement, Charles felt..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1971 & 1973. Coryn, Sidonie. Hardcover. 684 pages. 26 x 18.5 cm. Published October 12, 1961. The still masterful and continually popular cookbook from the French Simone Beck and Louisette Bertholle and the American Julia Child. Featuring 524 delicious recipes and over 100 instructive illustrations..... More