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A Guide to Fine Dining in America

A Guide to Fine Dining in America

by [The Editors of Holiday; Silas Spitzer]

[New York]: Holiday Magazine; Curtis Publishing, 1964. Stapled booklet (8 x 5.5 cm.), 55 pages. Index at rear. Title from cover; author and publication information from text. FIRST EDITION. A follow-up publication to A Guide to New York City Restaurants (1959), itself an expanded version of what began as an article in the October 1959 edition of Holiday magazine with the title "A Holiday Handbook of New York Restaurants". The listings for this new title now represent restaurants nationwide. No author is... Read more about this item
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A$139.87
Much Depends on Dinner; The Tablecloth Game

Much Depends on Dinner; The Tablecloth Game

by Robotti, Peter J.; with Frances Diane Robotti; introduction by Charles Collingwood

New York: Fountainhead Publisher's Inc, 1961. Large octavo (24 x 16 cm.), xii, 306 pages. Illustrated. FIRST EDITION, Deluxe Issue, one of an unspecified number of signed copies, this one numbered "H.F.F.". Each chapter describes an element of the fine dining restaurant experience: great chefs, dining room staff, the sommelier, tipping, restaurant guides, and a fairly long view of what at the time was an unbroken line of tradition. The author was a guest editor at Chef Magazine, the official periodical... Read more about this item
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A$139.87
[Vernacular photograph - Cafe or diner interior]

[Vernacular photograph - Cafe or diner interior]

by Anonymous

[N.p.; New England, Massachusetts(?)], 1904. Original photograph on board (photograph 12.5 x 16.8 cm.; board 12.8 x 17 cm.). Photographic print of a cafe or diner interior, with the proprietor seated at the counter on a stool, three servers standing behind the counter in white jackets. The menu includes "Pork 15c, Small Steak 15c, Rump Steak 20c, Ham & Eggs 20c, and the "Bill of Fare includes "Haddock" and "Steak Cod". Individual signs advertise "Cold Meats", "Mutton Pie", and "Brunet's Unexcelled Baked... Read more about this item
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A$310.82
The Mezzo Cookbook with John Torode

The Mezzo Cookbook with John Torode

by Torode, John and Francis, Sarah

London: Conran Octopus. 1997. Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Near Fine copy in Very Good dustjacket. Dustjacket is now protected in a purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Illustrated with Colour and black and white photographs. 224 pages. With an Introduction by Terence Conran. From the Conran Mezzo Restaurant venture - recipes from the forefront of British cooking. Over 100 accessible and easy-to-follow recipes with straightforward advice on buying and preparing ingredients. Robust,... Read more about this item
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A$25.00
Breakfast Menu

Breakfast Menu

by [Menu - Pine Inn, Carmel-by-the-Sea (Carmel, Ca.)]

[Carmel, Ca: the restaurant, circa, 1937. Menu (17.5 x 13.5 cm.), [4] pages on cream color laid paper. Wood block illustration to front panel. A breakfast menu from the dining room of the first hotel built in beautiful Carmel-by-the-Sea in 1889. The Pine Inn still operates at its original location, a few blocks from the Carmel Beach on Ocean Avenue, with the dining room now an outpost of the Il Fornaio group of Italian restaurants. This menu offers three breakfasts, all fairly simple yet organized by... Read more about this item
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A$139.87
Knife and Fork in New York: Where to Eat, What to Order

Knife and Fork in New York: Where to Eat, What to Order

by Mackall, Lawton

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1949. Small octavo (19.5 x 12 cm.), [7], 245 pages. Second edition, revised, originally issued in 1948. A colorful guide to restaurant dining in New York City in the years following the Second World War. The guide has an unusual organizing structure, with four hundred seventy-five restaurants grouped into Shelly & Finny Fare, Gobblers, Potpies, and Popovers, Southern Accent, Chummy and Cheery, Heavy Date Coming Up, Plush and Splash, Quick on the Snigger, Gags,... Read more about this item
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A$310.82
The Rector Cook Book. World Famous Recipes. Specialties from Noted Restaurants including those mentioned in "A Cook's Tour" and "The Girl from Rector's" as appeared in the Saturday Evening Post

The Rector Cook Book. World Famous Recipes. Specialties from Noted Restaurants including those mentioned in "A Cook's Tour" and "The Girl from Rector's" as appeared in the Saturday Evening Post

by Rector, George

Chicago, IL: Rector Publishing Company, 1928. Octavo, 173 pages. Index; advertisements. FIRST EDITION. If you're looking for golden age recipes, this is the best of the raconteur chef George Rector's books by far. It includes recipes found in his other works and in his Saturday Evening Post column. So much of what Rector wrote was puffery; culinary historian David Kamp has called him a "congenital embellisher" while debunking the story of Diamond Jim Brady's legendary consumption, an enjoyable but... Read more about this item
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A$466.23
BEST RESTAURANTS IN AMERICA

BEST RESTAURANTS IN AMERICA

New York NY: Simon & Schuster. 1985. First Edition. Softcover. 0671604465 . Very Good with no dust jacket; Edgewear. ; Introduction by Jacques Pepin. Over 1,200 listings from the most traveled cities. ; Trade PB; B&W Illustrations; 448 pages .
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A$12.43A$8.70
Flash in the Pan. The Life and Death of an American Restaurant

Flash in the Pan. The Life and Death of an American Restaurant

by Blum, David

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992. Octavo (24 x 16 cm.), 302 pages. FIRST EDITION. A chronicle of the high-spirited opening and subsequent rapid decline and extinction of a New York City restaurant at the end of the Go-Go Eighties. A portrayal of a restaurant that seemingly had everything: celebrity investors, a trendy location, hot waitresses and A-list clientele. But things didn't work out as expected. Fine in publisher's cloth, in a near fine dust jacket.
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A$310.82
La Colomba

La Colomba

by [Menu - Surrealist]; Mesens, E.L.T

Venezia [Venice, Italy]: La Colomba, 1962. Single-folded menu, (13 x 13 inches), with screen printed typo-pictorial design in green, bland, and orange. Verso printed in the same colors with food offerings and prices. A menu designed by the Belgian surrealist E.L.T. Mesens, probably created for the design contest of famed Venice art bistro La Colomba. Signed "Mesens 62" in the lower left-hand corner, and further inscribed in 1964 by Mesens to his long-time friend and accomplice, the surrealist jazz... Read more about this item
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A$1,398.69
Ma Gastronomie

Ma Gastronomie

by Point, Fernand

Wilton, CT: Lyceum Press, 1974. Quarto (28 x 21.5 cm.), 191, [1] pages. Illustrated. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION & FIRST ENGLISH LANGUAGE EDITION. A slim but nevertheless monumental work of 20th century gastronomy, from the father modern French cuisine. The posthumous work (Point died in 1955) is part memoir, part culinary guide and part cookbook. Assembled by Point's widow Mado and published in 1969, the book was published here in English for the first time, and then reissued in English in 2008 with a new... Read more about this item
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A$543.94
The Bakery Restaurant Cookbook

The Bakery Restaurant Cookbook

by Szathmary, Louis

Boston: Cbi Publishing Company, Inc, 1981. Octavo (23.5 x 16 cm.), xvi, 325 pages. Index. Fourth printing. The fifth book from Louis Szathmary, renowned chef, cookbook author, publisher, cookbook collector, and larger-than-life personality. This book documents Szathmary's cooking at his famous Chicago restaurant, The Bakery. The cuisine was a blend of traditional French with dishes from the chef's Hungarian heritage. Some foxing to edges of text block; in publisher's white cloth, with some light soil to... Read more about this item
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A$139.87
London Restaurant Guide

London Restaurant Guide

by Nicholson, R

R Nicholson, 1982-12-01. Paperback. Good. 0 Paperback
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A$10.80
Flash in the Pan. The Life and Death of an American Restaurant

Flash in the Pan. The Life and Death of an American Restaurant

by Blum, David

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992. Octavo (24 x 16 cm.), 302 pages. FIRST EDITION. A chronicle of the high-spirited opening and subsequent rapid decline and extinction of a New York City restaurant at the end of the Go-Go Eighties. A portrayal of a restaurant that seemingly had everything: celebrity investors, a trendy location, hot waitresses and A-list clientelle. But things didn't work out as expected. Fine in publisher's cloth, in a near fine dust jacket.
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A$310.82
Grosses Restaurations-Kochbuch. Ein Hand- u. Nachschlagebuch der modernen Restaurations-Küche hervorgegangen aus zwei Preisausschreiben des Internationalen Verbandes der Küche Sitz Frankfurt am Main

Grosses Restaurations-Kochbuch. Ein Hand- u. Nachschlagebuch der modernen Restaurations-Küche hervorgegangen aus zwei Preisausschreiben des Internationalen Verbandes der Küche Sitz Frankfurt am Main

Frankfurt: Fachschriften-Verlag des Internationalen Verbandes der Köche, 1910. Quarto, 650, [6] pages. Advertisements. Profusely illustrated. Second Edition, enlarged and revised. A complete guide to restaurant management, from provisioning and menu pricing, to menu design, to classic German recipes. Over one hundred pages of color facsimiles of German restaurant menus. The menu examples cover many styles. A tiny bit of pulling at the front hinge, otherwise near fine. In publisher's half black calf,... Read more about this item
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A$388.53
Collectible Books: Some New Paths

Collectible Books: Some New Paths

by Jean Peters

New York: R.R. Bowker, 1979. First American edition. . Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. First American Edition. A very good book in a near fine dust jacket.
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A$15.18A$11.39
London and Fashionable Resorts. A Complete Guide to the Places of Amusement, Objects of Interest, Parks, Clubs, Markets, Docks, Leading Hotels and also a Directory, in a concise form, of First-class Reliable Houses in the Various Branches of Trade

London and Fashionable Resorts. A Complete Guide to the Places of Amusement, Objects of Interest, Parks, Clubs, Markets, Docks, Leading Hotels and also a Directory, in a concise form, of First-class Reliable Houses in the Various Branches of Trade

by [Grand Tour]

London: J. P. Segg & Co, 1890. Quarto, 240 pages. FIRST EDITION. Elaborately designed and printed golden age travel guidebook, The text, printed in lavender, within decorative neo-classical golden borders, with many illustrations of many destinations of London and fashionable resorts. Attractively printed trade card for Bollinger's Champagne pasted-down to the front endpaper. All edges gilt. In soiled and worn blue and gilt-stamped red, beveled cloth. Front hinge repaired. Rear hinge starting. With an... Read more about this item
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A$1,398.69
[Convolute of materials related to the Italian restaurant Lucca, with branches in San Francisco & California]

[Convolute of materials related to the Italian restaurant Lucca, with branches in San Francisco & California]

by [Lucca (Los Angeles & San Francisco)]

[Los Angeles; San Francisco, California: Lucca, 1938. Six items in all: 1. Photo album, "Photographs", bound with cord (18 x 26 cm.), [8] pages. Nine original black & white photographs, mounted to album leaves. The photographs depict the exterior of the San Francisco Lucca's decked out in its grand opening finery; the bakery with staff; the dining room with full front of house staff (and perhaps the owners?); wedding cakes; two photos making a panoramic view of the kitchen with twenty-seven cooks; the... Read more about this item
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A$777.05
Toots

Toots

by Considine, Bob

New York: Meredith Press, 1969. Octavo (23.5 x 16 cm.), 214 pages. Illustrated with photographs. Frontispiece. Index. FIRST EDITION. A biography of the great barman and owner of the legendary eponymous New York bar and restaurant, Toots Shor. Filled throughout with exploits of the famous raconteur's exploits behind the bar and out in the City, and with stories of the celebrities and politicians who frequented Toots Shor. Considine was a journalist, best known for his WWII story Thirty Seconds Over... Read more about this item
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A$543.94
Where to Dine in Thirty-nine: a Guide to New York Restaurants, to which there is added a cook book of recipes by famous chefs

Where to Dine in Thirty-nine: a Guide to New York Restaurants, to which there is added a cook book of recipes by famous chefs

by Ashley, Diana

New York: Crown Publishers, 1939. Octavo (22 x 15 cm.), 126 pages. FIRST EDITION. Produced, presumably, for the influx of visitors to the city in the year of the New York World's Fair. Publisher's salmon-colored, titled boards. Very lightly soiled and rubbed. Lacks the dust jacket illustrated by Peter Arno, but otherwise very good.
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A$233.12
French Dishes for American Tables

French Dishes for American Tables

by Caron, Pierre (Mrs. Frederic Sherman, translator and editor)

New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1885. Octavo (18 x 12.5 cm.), 231, [8] pages. Index, really a Table of Contents. Publisher's advertisements. FIRST EDITION. A collection of classic French dishes with recipes by a former Chef d'Entremets at Delmonico's. Soups, sauces, fish, entreés, vegetables, etc. Internally fine, with all edges colored orange. This book was quite popular and went through a number of printings in the years following its issuance in 1885. Spine of decorated tan cloth is a darkened and... Read more about this item
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A$233.12
Louis' Salads and Chafing Dishes. [cover title: A Book of Good Salads, for my friend with chafing dish recipes]

Louis' Salads and Chafing Dishes. [cover title: A Book of Good Salads, for my friend with chafing dish recipes]

by Muckensturm, Louis

New York: Dodge Publishing Company, 220 East 23rd Street; [Copyright by H.M. Caldwell Co, 1906. Tall octavo (26 x 13.5 cm.), 113, [7] pages. All pages with green rule; printed throughout in black and green. Index. Pages at rear "For your own receipts". Evident FIRST EDITION. "Author of Louis' Mixed Drinks, Louis' Every Woman's Cookbook, [and this work] Muckensturm rose up to become one of America's top restaurateurs in the early twentieth century. Part of that success might lie in the fact that his... Read more about this item
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A$69.93
Prince's Restaurant. La Langouste Parisienne [with:] La Coupe Jacques

Prince's Restaurant. La Langouste Parisienne [with:] La Coupe Jacques

by [Menus - Prince's Restaurant (Bruxelles, Belgium)]; Mario Galli

Bruxelles, 1920. Pair of bi-fold menus, each (13.5 x 12 cm.). Illustrations in color via pochoir. Two menus for the Italian restaurant Prince's in Brussels. The dishes on offer are identical on each menu, but each of the fine Art Deco illustrations (signed in the print, "Lyett") features a glamorously dressed woman in repose on a dish, one a sleepy langoustine, and the other adding champagne to a punch. Fine.
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A$543.94
American Menu Maker: a loose-leaf encyclopedia of menu-making and food production information for the open-minded and progressive food executive. Menu making suggestions, buying specifications, standardized portions, tested food formulas

American Menu Maker: a loose-leaf encyclopedia of menu-making and food production information for the open-minded and progressive food executive. Menu making suggestions, buying specifications, standardized portions, tested food formulas

by Wenzel, G.L. [George Leonard Wenzel]

New York: American Menu Maker, 1936. Thick, quarto-sized post-bound volume (29 x 23 cm.), various pagination by section. Tabs for section navigation. Early printing, originally published in 1933. The comprehensive book on menu planning and food cost control. Some light wear to fore edges of some leaves; creasing and light soil to title leaf printed on stiff stock. Otherwise generally very good. [OCLC locates six copies (and just seven copies total of the two previous printings); Axford, page 547].
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A$155.41
Great Restaurants of South Australia Cookbook Featuring Selected South Australian Wineries Volume 2

Great Restaurants of South Australia Cookbook Featuring Selected South Australian Wineries Volume 2

by Various Authors

Paris Creek, SA: Simon Atkinson. No date. Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Near Fine condition. A lovely book in excellent condition. Illustrated with Colour photographs. Includes Index of Recipes, Winery Guide and advice on wine from the Sommelier at Chloes. 146 pages. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st thus. Softcover.
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A$22.00