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The Physiology Of Taste
by Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin was born in France in 1755 and died in 1826.Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher, author of The Art of Eating, was born in 1908 and died in 1992.Bill Buford, author of Heat, lives in New York City.
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The Physiology Of Taste
by Brillat-Savarin, Jean Anthelme
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin was born in France in 1755 and died in 1826.Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher, author of The Art of Eating, was born in 1908 and died in 1992.Bill Buford, author of Heat, lives in New York City.
The American wheat culturist. A practical treatise on the culture of wheat, embracing a brief history and botanical description, with full practical details for selecting seed, producing new varieties, and cultivating on different kinds of soil
by TODD, S. EDWARD
New York: Taintor Bros. & Co, 1868. First edition, 8vo, pp. [iii]-viii, 432; 80 wood engravings (some full-p.); original green cloth lettered and decorated in gilt on spine; a very good, sound copy. Binder's ticket of Geo. W. Alexander, New York.
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A$115.90
Breakfast, dinner, and tea: viewed classically, poetically, and practically. Containing numerous curious dishes and feasts of all times and all countries. Besides three hundred modern receipts
by [ANDREWS, JULIA C.]
New York: D. Appleton and Co, 1859. First edition, square 8vo, pp. xi, [1], 351; original blindstamped pebble-grain green cloth lettered in gilt on upper cover and spine; rebacked, old spine laid down and faded; all else very good.
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A$445.77
GROWING CHART FOR LITTLE PEOPLE ON THE WAY UP: Eat Plenty of Bread, Freihofer's Perfect Loaf Builds Strong Bodies
by The Freihofer Bread Company
Philadelphia: The Freihofer Bread Company, 1934. Folding brochure and children's growth chart extolling the virtues of Freihofer's Perfect Loaf: "wheat plus milk equals health." Printed in black and red on heavy off-white card stock. Five panels, which measure 3" x 8 1/2 " folded and extend to 44 inches with measurements up to five feet when the growth chart is hung, as instructed, two feet up from the bottom edge. Some light toning on one panel; otherwise very good. Includes instructions for use of...
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A$193.81
10th Annual Fashion Fair recipe folder
by Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire (I.O.D.E.)
London, Ontario: Col. William M. Gartshore Chapter I.O.D.E. , 1961. Good. 11 x 13 cm blue stapled folder containing 11 typewritten dessert recipes. Folder has a bit of soiling or discolouration. Contributor's names not mentioned. Contains Paradise Pudding, Mocha Dream, Pineapple Ambrosia, Cherry Crunch, etc.
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A$23.26
![有機報告 / You ji bao gao [= Organics report] (Hansheng vols 91-93)](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/257/241/1550241257.0.b.jpg)
有機報告 / You ji bao gao [= Organics report] (Hansheng vols 91-93)
Taipei: Hansheng Magazine, 1996. 4to, 3 vols, pp. 132; 136; 128; text in Traditional Chinese; color text illustrations thoughout; printed paper wrappers; corners a little bumped, else fine, with vols. 1 and 2 in the original cardboard slipcase and vol. 3 accompanying as issued. Hansheng Magazine is an award-winning project dedicated to highlighting a specific aspect of Chinese cultural arts with each issue. It was founded in 1971 as the English magazine ECHO before shifting towards the Chinese-speaking...
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A$35.66
LES CLASSIQUES DE LA TABLE, a l'usage des practiciens et des gens du monde
by Fayot, Frederic (Editor)
Paris: Se vend Chez Martinon, 1844. Second Edition. Hardcover. Very good. A gastronomical classic, originally published in sixty parts and presented here complete. Includes selections from Brillat-Savarin's Physiology of Taste, a selection of Bacchic songs, La Gastronomie of Joseph Berchoux, The Marquis de Cussy's L'Art Culinaire, etc. IV, XXII, (4), 609 [printer's numbering error: 567-582, collated complete], 4. Frontispiece portrait, with a title page vignette, 23 plates, and ten textual engravings....
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A$387.62
Food consumption. Quantities, costs, and nutrients of food-materials
by WRIGHT, CARROLL D
Boston: Wright & Potter Printing Co, 1886. First separate edition, 8vo, pp. iv, [239]-326 [i.e. 87 pages]; numerous tables in the text; original tan printed wrappers; one or two very small chips out at the extremities, else fine. Reprinted from the 17th Annual Report of the Massachusetts Bureau of Statistics of Labor.
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A$62.41
![Description of the educational exhibit of cocoa and chocolate... [Together with:] Educational exhibit. Cocoa and chocolate prepared by Walter Baker & Co](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/874/861/836861874.0.b.1.jpg)
Description of the educational exhibit of cocoa and chocolate... [Together with:] Educational exhibit. Cocoa and chocolate prepared by Walter Baker & Co
Dorchester, MA: Walter Baker & Co., Ltd, 1913. Oblong 8vo, pp. 39, [1], followed by 6 high-quality chromolithograph plates of Walter Baker products; 5 other full-page illustrations; fine in original maroon cloth, gilt-lettered on upper cover. The educational exhibit consists of what presumably is a salesman's wooden lacquered case (approx. 9½" x 5½" x 3½"), with a hinged lid on top, and a brass plaque and pull; mounted inside the lid are 4 Baker products, and inside the box itself are four apothecary...
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A$3,566.15
The Physiology Of Taste
by Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Folio Society, 2008. Hardcover. Very Good. 2008. First Edition Thus. 362 pages. No dust jacket, Folio edition with slipcase. Grey cloth with decorations and slipcase. Colour illustrated plates throughout. Binding remains firm. Pages are bright and clear with no visible markings. Boards have light edgewear with corner bumping. Mild crushing to spine, with occasional markings overall. Slipcase has moderate edge wear with markings to panels and scuffing to edges.
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A$30.03
Gastronomical bibliography
by BITTING, KATHERINE GOLDEN
San Francisco: [the author], 1930. First edition, large 8vo, pp. xiii, [3], 718; original blue buckram, brown leather label stamped in gilt on spine; very light wear to extremities, the label a little scuffed with a few small chips out at edges, and the hinges a little tender; overall, a very good copy. A comprehensive bibliography of some 6,000 books from the 15th to the 20th centuries with detailed bibliographic information for each, plus numerous annotations. The most important reference in the field.
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A$534.92
The Physiology of Taste
by BRILLAT-SAVARIN, Jean Anthelme
London, England: The Folio Society, 2008. Hardcover with Slipcase. Like New/Without Dust Wrapper (As Issued). 4to - 9.75 to 12" tall. Like New - very minor marks to the slipcase, volume looks unread and like new with contents clean, bright and tight. As this item weighs over 1kg when packed additional postage will be required for delivery outside of the United Kingdom.
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A$34.92
Irving Family Favorites
by IRVING, Wayne, et al
August 2000. Softcover. Good. 2 vols., unpaginated. 28 cm. B&w illustrations. Spiral binding with clear front cover. Dedicated to Leslie Irving. Contributions from various family members and where they live.
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A$54.27
Cookin' with the Club
by KIPLING, Sarah, et al
3M Club, 2006. Softcover. Good. 135 p. 22 cm. Spiral binding. Ink notes on extra pages at rear and inside rear cover as well as recipe index and throughout. Rear cover stained.
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A$23.26
Pouring vessel vagaries
by PICKMAN, DUDLEY LEAVITT
Cambridge: the Mythology Company, 1938. First edition, 12mo, pp. 200; frontispiece, plates, numerous illustrations in the text; fine in original black cloth gilt with pictorial paper cover label, original glassine with some chips, pink paper-covered slipcase with printed paper label a bit faded. A history of pouring vessels covering America, China, Crete, Egypt, England, France, Iran, Italy, Japan, Peru and many others.
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A$106.98
A collection of seven hundred tested recipes published by the Rutheans of the High Prairie M. E. Church of Muscatine, Iowa
by Rutheans
Muscatine, Iowa: [Press of Conway-Schaefer, 1912. 8vo, pp. 156; numerous advertisements throughout; original tan printed wrappers; spine perished, worn, soiled, spotted, and stained, a number of annotations throughout, but sound and complete. Not in OCLC.
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A$401.19
Java and mocha in the United States, and the peculiar relations between them and the National Association of pure food and dairy departments in 1902, 1903 and 1904
by GANS, AUGUST E
Washington: Chief of the Bureau of Chemistry, 1904. First edition, 8vo, pp. 15; original gray printed wrappers; library sticker on front cover, pamphlet creased once vertically; otherwise very good. Issued in conjunction with the St. Louis World's Fair, 1904.
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A$80.24
Elivi's Gulyás
by Ervin, Andrew
[Minneapolis]: Coffee House Press, 2010. 6½" x 9½" letterpress recipe broadside printed to celebrate the publication of Extraordinary Renditions, 2010.
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A$26.75
Dinner and music festival. A salute to Oscar Hammerstein, II on behalf of Welcome House
by Hammerstein, Oscar II
Philadelphia, 1959. Bifolium program and menu with folded leaf of typescript lyrics inserted, pink stiff card, vignette cover, photo of the Hammerstein family with children from the House on final page. Participants included Ed Sullivan, who served as toast master, and Pearl S. Buck as a presenter. Light fold to top right corner, else fine. The Welcome House was foundation dedicated to international adoption, focusing on "hard-to-place children, without prejudice as to a child's American-Asian birth and...
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A$89.15
![四川倒糖餅兒 / Sichuan dao tang bing er [= Sichuan candy sculptures] (Hansheng 68)](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/403/241/1550241403.0.b.jpg)
四川倒糖餅兒 / Sichuan dao tang bing er [= Sichuan candy sculptures] (Hansheng 68)
by Wu, Meiyun, ed
Taipei: Hansheng Magazine, 1994. 4to, pp. 96; text in Traditional Chinese; illustrated throughout; pictorial paper wrappers; fine. Hansheng Magazine is an award-winning project dedicated to highlighting a specific aspect of Chinese cultural arts with each issue. It was founded in 1971 as the English magazine ECHO before shifting towards the Chinese-speaking audience, and is focused on preserving folk art, research, and high production values. This issue covers edible sugar sculptures, Huaxi Miao...
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A$35.66
LET'S GO OUT AGAIN: Interiors for Restaurants, Bars and Unusual Food Places
by Galindo, Michelle (Editor)
New York: gestalten, 2015. Hardcover. Fine. ...comprised of six chapters, each of which exemplifies an aesthetic and conceptual point of view: Understatement, Modern Musings, Rough and Local, Progressive, Graphic Spaces, and Dramatic. Each of these approaches goes beyond the visual to buoy and amplify the philosophies of the kitchens and bars that they help define." Profusely illustrated, largely in color. Quarto: 256 p. Original pictorial boards; issued without a dust jacket. A fine copy - as new,...
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A$77.52
Fruits and their cookery
by NELSON, HARRIET S
New York: E. P. Dutton, 1921. First edition, 8vo, pp. xii, [2], 209; dust jacket a little soiled, else a very good, sound copy. "The hundreds and hundreds of recipes in this volume will be a revelation to the majority of people ... Physicians of the present day place strong reliance on the daily use of fruit, and a book such as this has long been wanted..." (jacket blurb).
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A$267.46
PHOTOGRAPHIC RECORD OF THE CONSTRUCTION OF LOS ANGELES DAIRY PLANTS
by [Culinary - Milk and Ice Cream]
Two pairs of albums including 227 photographs documenting the construction in 1955 of two dairy processing plants in Los Angeles, California, from the laying of the foundations through completion. Comprised of 88 images of the Lucerne Milk Plant and 139 of the Regal Ice Cream Company. Silver prints, the images measuring 4 ½" x 6 ½", most mounted recto/verso, each with a caption, and nearly all with the direction photographed, in the negative; 14 loose. Quarto, four volumes. Original gray paper...
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A$1,162.88
Elivi's Gulyás
by Ervin, Andrew
[Minneapolis]: Coffee House Press, 2010. 6½" x 9½" recipe broadside printed to celebrate the publication of Extraordinary Renditions, 2010.
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A$26.75
CULINARY CULTURES OF THE MIDDLE EAST
by Zubaida, Sami and Richard Tapper (Editors)
London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 1996. Trade paperback. Very good. Octavo. Original paper wrappers. A crisp and clean copy.
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A$31.01
Kindergarten Cook Book
by Wortley Road Kindergarten
London, Ontario, 1967. Softcover. Fair. Unpaginated. One-sided pages. Stapled brown paper covers with pasted-on labels coloured by a kindergartener. Covers have tears and creases to edges.
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A$38.76
