Cooking And Food from Browsing Is Arousing

Santa Barbara CA: Capra Press, 1979. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Hardcover, 126 pages. Hardcover with foxing to edges. Dust jacket with light wear to edges. Photographs & illustrations of vineyards, wine making apparatus. Remainder mark to bottom edge. Otherwise, clean unmarked copy. Record # 385341

New York : Royal Baking Powder Co., 1902. 1st. Softcover. Very Good/None. 44 pages, color lithographed wrappers, bright and clean. Record # 406590

New York: Fleischmann & Co., 1893. Softcover. Very Good/None. 47 pages, printed in brown ink, black textured paper wrappers with gilt lettering. Mostly baking recipes from the famous yeast maker. String tie binding a little frayed but overall very good. Record # 406581

Chicago: Price Baking Powder Co., 1892. Softcover. Very Good/None. 64 pages, illustrated wrappers in 3-colors. Light soil to covers otherwise very good. Small hole in top corner with string loop. Record # 406577

Lowell MA: C.I. Hood and Co., 1888. 1st. Softcover. Very Good/None. 32 pages, wrappers printed in yellow and blue. Lots of Hoods ads for their medicinal pills interspersed throughout. NOTE: this booklet has 32 pages as opposed to others listing 16 pages from 1888. Record # 406578

Providence RI: Rumford Chemical Works, n.d.. Softcover. Very Good/None. 36 pages, small stapled booklet featuring recipes for all kinds of cakes, muffins, biscuits, puddings, etc. using Horsford's Baking Powder. Small punched hole in top corner with small red ribbon through it. Otherwise, clean, very good. No date, appears to be early 1900s. Record # 406591

Dorchester MA: Walter Baker & Co., 1893. 1st. Softcover. Very Good/None. 32 page booklet (3 3/8" X 5 3/4") full of recipes using Baker's Cocoa and Chocolate. Cover wrapper has color lithos on inside and outside. This piece was specially prepared for the company's exhibit at the Columbian Exposition. Super condition. Record # 406582

Nashua NH: White Mountain Freezer Co., 1893. 1st. Softcover. Very Good/None. 32 pages, small (4 3/8" X 5 3/4") stapled booklet, light gray paper wrappers. Faint dime size stain to bottom of front cover otherwise very good. Record # 406584

Morristown NY: W.H. Comstock Co., 1895. n/a. Softcover. Very Good/None. 30 pages with color lithographed paper wrappers. Recipes from the turn of the century interspersed with advertisements for their pills. Cover depicts Native American on horseback ready to spear an attacking bear. Brochure was once folded and has a mild crease in center. Overall, very good. No date… Read more about this item

NY: Simon & Schuster, 1992. 2nd pr.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. In Cucina Paradiso, Clifford Wright chronicles his fascinating quest for what he affectionately calls the "lost paradise" of Sicilian cuisine, the culinary heritage of the Arabs in Sicily. From his first visit there in 1983, he discovered that the sights,… Read more about this item

Berkeley CA: Ten Speed Press, 2012. 1st thus. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Clean copy. Record # 383867

Urbana IL: AOCS Press , 2007. 3rd pr.. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Hardcover, glossy pictorial boards, 490 pages, b&w illustrations. Includes summary of the basic principles of edible oil refining, processing, and deodorizing, serving as a hands-on training manual for chemists, engineers, and managers new to the industry. The 15-chapter book includes current information on the bleaching of green… Read more about this item

NY: Doubleday & Company, 1969. reprint. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Hardcover, two tone cloth covers with red lettering on spine., 308 pages. A clean, tight copy. No dust jacket. Record # 383480

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1957. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt titles on the spine. A cook book interwoven with the author's typical New England lighthearted commentary. Written with her daughter, 234 pages. Clean copy. Record # 383530

Berkeley CA: University of California Press, 2004. 2nd pr.. Softcover. Very Good/None. Softcover, 421 pages, b&w illustrations. Located only blocks from Tokyo's glittering Ginza, Tsukiji―the world's largest marketplace for seafood―is a prominent landmark, well known but little understood by most Tokyoites: a supplier for countless fishmongers and sushi chefs, and a popular and fascinating destination for foreign tourists.… Read more about this item

London: Philip Wilson Publishers, 2000. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 168 pages illustrated in b&w and color. Issued in conjunction with a series of 2000-2001 exhibitions that trace "the evolution of our national meals through an exploration of English paintings. Works by masters such as Van Aken, Zoffany and Vanessa Bell… Read more about this item

NY: Phaidon Press, 2007. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Hardcover in pictorial padded boards, 367 pages. The author belongs to the third generation of a family of pork devotees. The grandson of a village butcher on the Ardeche plateau in France, where they take their pork very seriously, Stephane is owner of VILLA 9 TROIS in Montreuil, near Paris,… Read more about this item

NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1980. BC Ed.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Three works in one combined volume, over 600 pages with 50 line drawings and conversion charts at end papers. A nice copy of this omnibus reprinting of three of the English author's classic culinary works. Appears to be a book club… Read more about this item

Cambridge MA: Lever Brothers, 1936. Softcover. Very Good/None. Softcover, small stapled brochure with color, b&w illustrations, 48 pages. A promotional cookbook for Spry Vegetable Shortening (a competitor of Procter & Gamble's Crisco), which was produced by Lever Brothers from 1936 and thru the 1940s. Record # 381851

NY: Warner Books, 2006. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The saucy and often humorous memoir of New York magazine food critic Gael Greene. From the glamorous restaurants of Manhattan to the culinary shrines of France, Greene's fierce wit and sensuous prose reveal the humor, obsession, and insatiable desires behind fine dining.… Read more about this item