365 TASTY DISHES A Tasty Dish for Every Year in the Day
213 pages. 17.5 x 12.5 cm. Imagine attempting to prepare a dish a day? Well, here is your chance. January 1: Prune Snowballs, January 24: Fried Calf's Brains, May 4: Rhode Island Chowder. Line illustrations throughout. Interior clean with a few check marks to the margins. Boards heavily rubbed at edges with some soiling to covers. Heavy boards with pictorial paper covers. Good Charcuterie: The Craft of Salting, Smoking and Curing
320 pages. 26 x 21 cm. In Charcuterie, the authors have created the only comprehensive book on the subject, filling an enormous gap in our understanding of cooking. They have included all the classic charcuterie recipes: duck confit, sausages, prosciutto, pancetta, pâte de campagne, knackwurst, and many more. Forward by Thomas Keller. Illustrated with black and white line drawings by Yevgeniy Solovyev. Pristine copy. Covered in protective mylar. Brown boards, yellow cloth covered spine. Fine, in fine dust wrapper THE GREAT WINES OF GERMANY and its famed vineyards
191 pages. 27 x 19 cm. Signed by author and photographer on half title page (third signature unknown). Lavishly illustrated with color photos throughout. Simon and Hallgarten begin with a short history of German wines and content with specific regions including: Moselle-Saar-Ruwer, Rheingau, Rhinehessia, Palatinate, Nahe, and Franconia. Other chapters on sparking wine and brandy. Full color illustrated maps. Color photographs by Percy Hennell and maps by Sheila Waters. Interior clean, boards lightly rubbed at edges. Green cloth covered boards, decorated in gilt. Very good Pasta Classica The Art of Italian Pasta Cooking
160 pages. 26 x 26 cm. Signed by the author on the front free end paper. Billed as "a celebration of Italy's most beloved food", author Julia della Croce takes us on a culinary journey into the world of pasta. Includes a history on the foodstuff's creation and development over the centuries, guides to selecting the right kinds of pasta and sauces, and plenty of easy-to-follow authentic Italian recipes for the home chef. Illustrated throughout. Interior and boards clean. Dust wrapper clean. Covered in protective mylar. Red cloth covered boards. Fine, in fine dust wrapper FRENCH COUNTRY COOKING Special Edition
Signed limited edition - 397 of 450 copies. Signed by the author on the title page. This new edition, the first of a series of Elizabeth David classics, is illustrated with paintings by French artists. First appearing in 1951, when rationing was still in force in Britain, David's book was an escapist read for the food starved public. This beautifully written cookbook - a classic, that should be read, sitting on a lawn chair while plotting your next meal. The food writer, Molly O'Neill said it best when she wrote: "Cooking wasn't a science to David; it was an art. Recipes today are created to be followed literally and slavishly, the culinary equivalent to paint-by-numbers. The recipes that David wrote nearly half a century ago are broad strokes on a canvas - she leaves the details to the cook, and for this reason, her recipes are neither dated nor dowdy, they are alive." Line drawings by JOHN MINTON. Boards and copy are pristine, dust wrapper clean but priced clipped. Covered in protective mylar. Green color illustrated boards. Fine, in near fine dust wrapper Who Says You Can’t COOK it All with contributions from Denise Jackson and Ruth Jackson
77 pages. 21.5 x 14 cm. "Come on into my kitchen and pull up a char 'cause I'm about to whip up some of the best Southern meals around! YEE HAW! Alan." Filled with color photos of Alan and his family, a souvenir catalog, and Fan Club applications. Classic American food: Pink Gelatin Salad, Buttermilk Biscuits, Country Fried Steak, Banana Pudding, Alan's Egg Nog, and many more. Crisp copy. [LIQUOR] [TRADE CATALOG] Wines, Spirits & Cordials 14, 15, 16 & 17 Dock Square, and 31 Faneuil Hall Square
12 pages. 14.5 x 8 cm. A captivating look at the broad array of wines, liqueurs, and ales available at the end of the 19th century in Boston, MA. The shop owned by David W. Blanchard and John W. Farrar stocked 17 different Bourbon and Rye Whiskeys, 5 types of Rum, 8 different Gins, 12 varieties of Brandies, 7 types of Sherry Wines, 8 varieties of Port Wine, 14 varieties of Native Wines, 6 different Claret Wines, 3 types of Sauternes, and a wide array of Cordials, Bitters, Punches, Essences, Cocktails, and Foreign Ales and Porters. An illustrated map of downtown Boston is featured on the back cover with miniature drawings of the Boston & Maine Depot, the Boston & Lowell Depot, the Eastern Depot, the Fitchburg Depot, Warren Bridge, Quincy Market, Faneuil Hall, and the Blanchard, Farrar & Co. store situated on their appropriate streets. Covers toned and soiled, interior clean. Cream illustrated wraps. Very good![[THANKSGIVING] [MENU] Thanksgiving 1945 U.S. NAVAL AIR STATION - SAN DIEGO](https://rarebookinsider.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/31708721187-600x839.jpg)
[THANKSGIVING] [MENU] Thanksgiving 1945 U.S. NAVAL AIR STATION – SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA
22 x 14 cm. Cover art features the profile of a pilgrim filled in with a plane landing on an airstrip. Menu's highlights: Consommé, Saltines, Mixed Sweet Pickles, Roast Tom Turkey, Oyster Dressing, Giblet Gravy, Chilled Cranberry Sauce, Snowflake Potatoes, Fruit Cake, Pumpkin Pie, Mixed Nuts, Cigarettes, Candy Bars, and Coffee. Full page lists Commanding Officers, Assistant Commissary Officers, Chief Commissary Stewards, and Chief Masters-at-Arms. Cover and interior clean. Back cover has residue from previously being pasted on to a surface. Brown illustrated paper. Very good Magic, Medicine & Quackery
192 pages. 21.5 x 14.5 cm. In this book, Eric Maple explores the jungle of folk medicine where the healing arts began: the fantastic world of village wise-men, faith-healing priests and empirics of the Middle Ages. The author focuses on the Great Age of Quackery of the eighteenth century with its rampant exploitation of human gullibility by the most audacious quacks in history, and continues with the story of the entertaining street quacks of a generation ago and the Fringe Medicine Men of twentieth-century Britain and America. Interior and boards clean, dust wrapper foxed. Covered in protective mylar. Purple cloth covered boards. Near fine, in good dust wrapper
The CHEZ FRANÇOIS Cookbook Revised Edition
218 pages. 24 x 19 cm. Signed by the author: " 12/09 Dear Jean-Claude, Love begins in the Kitchen! Jacques." Featuring the rich French cooking from the Alsace-Lorraine region of France, Jacques Haeringer has revised and expanded his original cookbook to include some favorite new recipes. The restaurant, L'Auberge Chez Francois, is located in the rolling hills of Great Falls, Virginia, a short drive from Washington DC, and is a long time favorite of the movers and shakers of the Capitol. Pristine copy. Covered in protective mylar. Green boards, cream cloth spine. Fine, in fine dust wrapper COMFORT ME WITH APPLES More Adventures at the Table
302 pages. 24 x 16 cm. Signed on title page by the author. This delightful sequel to her bestseller Tender at the Bone, the beloved food writer Ruth Reichl returns with more tales full of love, life, humor, and marvelous meals. Reichl's pursuit of good food and good company leads her to New York and China, France and Los Angeles. Clean and crisp. Covered in protective mylar. Rust boards. Fine, in near fine dust wrapper THE MARTHA WASHINGTON COOK BOOK
212 pages. 24 x 16 cm. Prepared from the original manuscript given by Frances Parke Custis to Martha Washington. The Martha Washington Cook Book presents the "rules" which brought fame to America's first Lady as a housewife and hostess throughout her life. The recipes have been completely modernized, and the author offers in her Introduction a remarkably interesting and entertaining account of the Washington's and their domestic problems. The book contains three reproductions in grafatone, including a frontispiece portrait of Martha Washington; three reproductions from the original manuscript; and numerous decorations in black and white; it is printed on water-resistant paper, and bound in washable cloth with lovely decorative endpapers displaying the gardens of Mount Vernon. Book and boards clean and crisp. Slipcase rubbed with some staining. All edges red. [BROWN 4304]. White illustrated cloth. Near fine, in good slipcase Stay Me, Oh Comfort Me Journals and Stories 1933-1941
349 pages. 22 x 15 cm. M.F.K. Fisher worked diligently, and against time, in the months just before her death to assemble her never-before-published journals, short stories, and correspondence, weaving them into two volumes. Continuing where she left off in To Begin Again, this book presents a candid account of her complicated triangle between her first husband, Al, and their friend Dillwyn Parrish. Pristine copy. Covered in protective mylar. Gray boards, gray cloth spine. Fine, in fine dust wrapper Livre de MADAME Edité pour John Wanamaker
156 pages. 12 x 8 cm. Published by the America department store, Wanamakers, this silk covered day book is decorated in a Persian art-deco design with gilt edges and housed in a similar styled publisher-issued slipcase with matching silk plates. 4 lithographic plates (Barbier), colored in pochoir and by hand in grays and white, with an additional 3 black and white plates. Interior features monthly calendar, blank pages for notes, and a selection of poems including those by Voltaire, Brazier, & Gilbert. Text in French. Interior crisp and clean, covers lightly rubbed at edges. Slip case rubbed and soiled with 1/2 cm. loss to spine. Silk paper covered boards, illustrated in color with gilt edges. Very good, in good slip case [THANKSGIVING] [POSTCARD] Thanksgiving Turkey, Chestnut Fed, With Dressing A la Mode Thanksgiving Humor Series
13.5 x 8.5 cm. Color illustrated postcard, with two one-cent stamp posted from New York, NY. Anthropomorphic Turkey, reading a Joke Book. Cover decorated with glitter. Edges lightly rubbed. Gray illustraed cards. Very good THE CRIMSON LETTER Harvard, Homosexuality, and the Shaping of American Culture
403 pages. 24 x 16.5 cm. Presentation copy - inscribed to Joe McGrath, a friend and longtime secretary to Prescott Townsend, a well known Boston Brahmin, also featured in this book. The author explores the nature and expression of sexual identity at America's oldest university during the years of its greatest influence. The Crimson Letter follows the gay experience at Harvard in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, focusing upon students, faculty, alumni, and hangers-on who struggled to find their place within the confines of Harvard Yard and in the society outside. Laid in: 16 pages of photo copies with the author's annotations, a photo copy of the first page designs inscribed to Joe McGrath, copy of the cover art, and a photo copied review of the book from the Boston Globe. Presentation on the front free end paper: "For Joe McGrath, My old friend from Tindal Place! With the best wishes of the author and many thanks for your help in remembering - Douglas Shand-Tucci, 03 - 05 - 03."Interior and boards pristine. Dust wrapper very lightly rubbed at corners. Covered in protective mylar. Black boards. Fine, in near fine dust wrapper LIKE WATER FOR CHOCOLATE A Novel in Monthly Installments, with Recipes, Romances, and Home Remedies
246 pages. 19.5 x 13.5 Originally published in Spanish as "Como Aqua Para Chocolate", the novel combines elements of magical realism with a rich portrayal of Mexican culture and traditions. The story is set in early 20th-century Mexico and follows the life of Tita de la Garza, the youngest daughter of the De la Garza Family. Each chapter is accompanied by a recipe, and the culinary elements are central to the story, reflecting the emotions and events of the characters' lives. Translated by Carol Christensen and Thomas Christensen. Pristine copy. Covered in protective mylar. Rust boards, rust cloth covered spine. Fine, in fine dust wrapper