Quantity Food Service Recipes; compiled by .. Administration Section of the American Dietetic Association

J.B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia . London . Montréal, 1940. Reprint. Hardcover. Good Condition/Good. Illustrator: Jean McConnell. foreword By the Administration Section of the American Dietetic Association, Prologue by Lenna F. Cooper, tables – tables of quantities and yields, approximate or average weights of various commodities and miscellaneous canned products. Black and white photographic endpapers, showing a "modern" commercial kitchen. The text is illustrated with quirky black and white cartoons by Jean McConnell. Beige coloured cloth covered boards with blue coloured illustration to the front panel and blue and beige coloured titles to the front panel and blue coloured titles to the backstrip. Inserted loosely are various pamphlets and recipes from a previous owner. Illustrated dustwrapper with blue and red coloured titles to the front panel and backstrip. "This is a recipe book on quantity cookery, and the first book in which every recipe has been tested and approved by members of the American Dietetic Association, which constitutes the final authority in all deals of food economics. Each recipe, and there are more than 1100 of them, represents a favourite contribution from leading dieticians in hospitals, hotels, restaurants, colleges, schools and industry; home economists employed in food departments of industrial organisations; hotel chefs, and other individual contributors." – From the front fold over blurb. All recipes give the yield or number of servings per recipe. Softening of the backstrip edges and bumping to the top book corners. the top text edge has at some stage had a blue coloured tint which has faded to almost nothing. Browning and foxing to the textblock edges and the internal text is slightly brown. There are signs throughout that this book has been used – splashes, rubs and marks. Creasing to the dustwrapper edges and shipping to the dustwrapper corners. Sunning to the backstrip edges and sunning the rear panel. All corners of the dustwrapper had been clipped as part of the book's production. Size: 4to 9¾" - 12" tall. (4), V-XI, (3), 3-443, (1) pages,. Dust Jacket price-clipped. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Jean McConnell. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Cooking, Wine & Dining; United States; 1930s; Inventory No: 0112791. .