![Item #4992 [BAKING POWDER] Small Archive of Baking Powder Pamphlets; Ten Baking Powder Pamphlets](https://lizzyoungbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4992.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1775145482)
1899-1935. Staplebound. Are you familiar with the "baking powder wars" that erupted in the late nineteenth century? During this period, baking powder had become a booming industry, with more than a hundred manufacturers competing nationwide. In their efforts to attract home cooks loyal to traditional methods and recipes, these companies..... More
![Item #4336 [CALIFORNIA] The Bride's Cook Book](https://lizzyoungbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4336.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1721078588)
San Francisco: The California Bride's Cook Book Publishing Co., 1912. Hardcover. 110 pages. 23 x 15.5 cm. A well organized and expansive cook book filled with period advertisements. Companies paid to have their products highlighted in the recipes including Folger's Golden Gate Baking Powder, Tea, and Spices, as well as..... More
![Item #4708 [COMMUNITY COOKBOOK] 625 CHOICE RECIPES from the LADIES of the Second Cong. Church, of...](https://lizzyoungbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4708.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1761161576)
HOLYOKE, MASS: Transcript Publishing Company, 1886. First Edition. Hardcover. 108 pages. 22 x 14.5 cm. Recipes attributed to church members. Recipes include: Fish Chowder, Escalloped Oysters, Dressing for Turkey, Cold Mutton, Saratoga Potatoes (potato chips), Fritters, Puddings, Connecticut Doughnuts, Molasses Candy, Hop Beer, Food for the Sick, etc. On page..... More
Chicago: Butterick Publishing Company, 1932. Hardcover. 164 pages. 23 x 15.5 cm. From the creators of The Delineator magazine - a publication focused on testing recipes, kitchen appliances, and household methods to give trusted advice to homemakers. Filled with recipes - photo illustrated. Interior clean and crisp. Boards rubbed at..... More
![Item #3828 [PERIODICAL] LE POT-AU-FEU; Journal de Cuisine Pratique et D'Économie Domestique](https://lizzyoungbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3828.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1747060378)
Paris: 1910-1911. Hardcover. Full year, bound together in attractive binding. Issues 1-24, with index. 384 pages. 27 x 21 cm. Published in Paris from 1893-1956. This French biweekly cooking journal targeted young women who had "recently completed their education", as well as "bourgeois" housewives, and educational establishments in need of..... More
Paris: Louis Tenré/Patris et Cie, 1833, 1810. Fifth Edition/First Edition. Hardcover. 454 pages/116 pages. 21 x 13 cm. This volume is a rare and notable example of early 19th-century culinary literature offering unique insights into the development of French cooking and food preservation during the time of significant innovation in..... More
![Item #5129 [HEALTH] Quantity Recipes using Nonfat Dry Milk Solids; A Food Managers' Guide....](https://lizzyoungbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/5129.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1790192882)
Chicago: American Dry Milk Institute, Inc., 1947. Spiral_bound. 64 pages. 23 x 15.5 cm. Produced to facilitate providing nutritional, attractive food in institutional kitchens. Highlighting low cost and increased volume, nonfat dry milk is featured in all the recipes - most serving 50 people. Covers lightly rubbed. Interior clean. More
Tallahassee, Florida: Self Published, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. 251 pages. 23.5 x 16 cm. One of 2000 copies. A terrific book about the families who settled in Tallahassee, Florida over a hundred year period from 1824-1924. This book contains the account of the residents and the homes they built and..... More
New York: W.W. NORTON & COMPANY, 2014. Hardcover. 416 cm. 26 x 21 cm. Signed on dedication page by author: "HAPPY COCKTAILS and ENJOY the Book! - D" (with illustration). Arnold provides both professionals and cocktail enthusiasts a new method of making drinks, a problem-solving approach grounded in observation and..... More
New York: W.W. NORTON & COMPANY, 2014. Hardcover. 416 cm. 26 x 21 cm. Arnold provides both professionals and cocktail enthusiasts a new method of making drinks, a problem-solving approach grounded in observation and creative techniques. Years of rigorous experimentation and study - botched attempts and inspired solutions - have..... More
Paris: ERTI-LECERF, 1980. Hardcover. 816 pages. 28 x 22 cm. Presentation copy to the "Queen of the Mediterranean" - Paula Wolfert. "A Paula Wolfert, En toute sympathie, Jean Claude Frentz." This comprehensive French reference book focuses on the various professions related to food and culinary arts such as catering, cooking..... More
London: MACLAREN & SONS LIMITED, 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. 304 pages. 25 x 19 cm. A manual and practical reference work, partly published in dictionary form. A bit of a throw back but incredibly helpful for those who seek the lost art of "carving in front of guests." Volume 1..... More
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1973. First edition. Hardcover. 211 pages. 24.5 x 15 cm. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed to Yogi Berra: "Dearest Yogi and Family - These 'Pots' will send the Ball over the Fence. With love - your ever-lovin' sister & Umpire, Pearl." Actress, singer, and born raconteur..... More
New York: CROWN PUBLISHERS, INC., 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. 224 & 225 pages. 24 x 16 cm. Vol. I has two important book plates, that of Phil Townsend Hanna and Marcus Crahan. Both Hanna and Townsend were members of the Zamarano Club - both active in the same Los Angeles..... More
New York: Doubleday, 1990. Hardcover. 286 pages. 26 x 19 cm. Signed. Presentation copy: "To Joan with best wishes and enjoy cooking ... Buon Appetito, Lidia Bastianich." Lidia has assembled a collection of over 120 simple but sophisticated family recipes that is spiced with tidbits of history and the traditions..... More
![Item #5125 [CULINARY HISTORY] [NEW YORK] On The Town In New York From 1776 to the Present....](https://lizzyoungbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/5125.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1790114544)
New York: Charles Scriber's Sons, 1973. Hardcover. 354 pages. 23 x 16 cm. Tracing the rise and fall of renowned restaurants, and the customs of eating, drinking, and entertainment of both high and low societies of New York City. Illustrated throughout. Clean, crisp copy. Covered in protective mylar. More
Hong Kong: a ridge press book, 1960. Hardcover. 282 pages. 30 x 22 cm. A beautifully illustrated cookbook that explores every facet of outdoor cooking including pit roasting, grilling, spit cooking, skewer cooking, smoke cooking - along with drinks, appetizers, and picnic and party foods. Interior clean, boards lightly rubbed..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. 625 pages. 24 x 16 cm. A cornucopia of wonderful dishes and imaginative variations, of old favorites and new creations for every mood and occasion. With over 1000 recipes, every single recipes has been either newly created or freshly reworked for..... More
New York: Rinehart & Company, Inc., 1946. Rand, Paul. Hardcover. 136 pages. 21.5 x 14.5 cm. Written by Lucius Beebe, the distinguished journalist and famously flamboyant syndicated columnist of the New York Herald, who once declared that at the Stork Club, “drinking has never been accomplished in the cloistered privacy..... More
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. 221 pages. 21.5 x 14.5 cm. In Old Hungary the spirit with which a special dish is cooked is as important as its ingredients and measurements. This warm, flavorful cookbook is full of the zest for good food and wine..... More
San Francisco: Boothby's World Drinks Co., 1930. Revised and Enlarged. Hardcover. 160 pages. 19 x 14 cm. Owner's stamp on verso of front cover: Richard K. Leonard. Contains an exhaustive list of recipes: absinthes, cobblers, cocktails, highballs, juleps, rickeys, fizzes, frappés, punches, sours, and toddies, Originally published as early as..... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1960. Hardcover. 21 x 14 cm. 176 pages. Ruth Eleanor "Peg" Bracken was an American author of humorous books on cooking, housekeeping, etiquette and travel. During the 1960s and 1970s, Bracken's writing reassured women that they did not have to be perfect to have..... More
Bruxelles: Société Typographique Belge, Ad. Wahlen et Compagnie, 1839. Hardcover. 470 pages. 18 x 12 cm. A rare Belgian reprint - a contrefaçon, in the language of the nineteenth-century French trade - of the most celebrated gastronomic work ever written, first published anonymously in Paris by Sautelet in December 1825..... More
![Item #4921 [COMMUNITY COOKBOOK] Wellesley Cooking Treasures. Brooklyn Wellesley Club](https://lizzyoungbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4921.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1772480739)
Brooklyn: c. 1962. Spiral bound. 146 pages. 22 x 14 cm. A community cookbook featuring recipes contributed by members of the Brooklyn Wellesley Club. The women represented here were an impressive group - many later became pioneering business leaders, lawyers, and educators. Proceeds from the volume supported the Wellesley College..... More
Richmond: Colonial Williamsburg, Inc., 1938. Jones, Elmo. Hardcover. 276 pages. 18 x 10 cm. Helen Bullock based this compilation on the first cookbook printed in British America: William Parks's 1742 Williamsburg edition of E. Smith's The Compleat Housewife. Its title and typography deliberately echo that model. Parks took his text..... More