Search Results: Food & Drink from Twin City Antiquarian Books

Aberdeen: Privately Printed, 1955 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Grey stiff paper wraps printed with maroon ink, 48 pp, stapled through fold. Wraps somewhat soiled, a 1 cm tear at bottom of front cover, a large grease stain (5 X 7 cm) on rear cover (penetrating though to last few leaves). 174 very succinct recipes, ranging from innocuous (oat cakes) to deadly (sheep's head broth, Scotch eggs). Shipping weight 3 oz. in envelope.. Pamphlet. G+/No dj. 21½ X 14 cm.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1971 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Quarter red cloth with mustard yellow cloth covered boards, blind stamped grape vine and gilt titles on front board, top edge red, xv, 713 pp, colophon. One corner bumped, a few small dents in bottom edges of boards, a black stain to fore-edge near bottom, gift inscription recto ffep, notes in pencil on title page. Contains preliminary chapters on history of wine, spirits, distillation, and grapes (to p 57), the main, alphabetical section (to p 568), appendices covering Bordeaux wines, containers, tables for converting metric, British, and US units, pronouncing glossary, bibliography, acknowledgements (quite a long list, including titles and names of organizations), and index. Shipping weight 4 lbs.. 5th ptg. . VG/No dj. 25½ X 20 cm.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1970 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Orange cloth, black cloth spine with foil titles, xvi, 382, xii, [3] pp, index. Corners bumped, spine cocked. DJ has only minor edge wear; in Brodart archival cover. From the DJ: "From pasta to nuts to the nature of the lemon (and how its juices can make a stew-cut of beef tender and succulent enough to broil as a steak), Michael Field shares his rich knowledge of, and experience with, all manner of food." Contents: garlic; cooking with cheese; mushrooms; pasta; cooking with wines & spirits; the lemon; cooking with chocolate; the egg; facts and fancies about shellfish; the onion and its family; roots; the potato; dried legumes; nuts; curry. 150 recipes. Shipping weight 3 lbs.. 2nd ptg. . Very Good/Near Fine. Illus. by Shelly Sacks. 22 X 16 cm.

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1995 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Maroon boards, natural linen spine with maroon foil titles, xv, 352 pp, chapter headpieces, index. DJ front flap creased, else fine; in Brodart archival cover. From the DJ: "This book takes the notion of meatless cooking down new roads--the highways and byways of regional America. The authors expertly merge low-fat vegetarian cooking with the distinctive flavors and styles that drive the cuisines of the Northeast, South, Heartland, West and Pacific Coast. ... Both longtime vegetarians and health-minded nonvegetarians will appreciate the two hundred recipes for low-fat, flavor-rich appetizers, salads & side dishes, soups, entrees, breads, and desserts." Shipping weight 3 lbs.. First Edition. . Fine/Near Fine. Illus. by Laura Hartman Maestro. 24 X 20 cm.

Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc, 1984 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Blue boards, gilt titles on spine, xix, 448 pp, index. Slight wear to spine ends. DJ has slight wear to spine ends; in Brodart archival cover. Contains information on how to control blood sugar with diet where that is possible, along with 200 recipes, each of which is accompanied by nutritional information, such as milk, vegetable, fruit, bread, meat, and fat exchanges, calories, and sodium, potassium, carbohydrate, fat, and protein content. Shipping weight 3 lbs.. First Edition. . Near Fine/Near Fine. Illus. by Lauren Rosen. 24 X 17 cm.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1987 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Quarter burnt orange cloth, dark brown paper-covered boards, copper titles on spine, 350, [1] pp, 8 ff color photo plates, many drawings illustrating techniques, index. Board edges fading slightly, gift inscription on recto of ffep. DJ in Brodart archival cover. A rather comprehensive dessert cookbook. Shipping weight 3 lbs.. First Edition. . Near Fine/Fine. Illus. by Susan Mattmann. 24 X 19½ cm.

New York et al.: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1981 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Full burgundy cloth, gilt titles on spine, pictorial endpapers, 639 p, 28 ff color plates, many b & w illustrations in text, bibliography, index. Top edge foxed, else fine. DJ in Brodart archival cover. Contents: viticulture, vinification, and the care of wine, by Serena Sutcliffe; the wines of France, by Serena Sutcliffe; of Germany, by Ian Jamieson; of Italy, by Philip Dallas; of Spain & Portugal, by Jan Read; of England, by Jack Ward; of North America, by Nathan Chroman; of South America, by David Stevens; of Australia, by Len Evans; of New Zealand, by Ron Small; of South Africa, by Julius Barratt; other vinelands of the world, by Bill Gunn; sherry, by Julian Jeffs; port, by Wyndham Fletcher; Madeira wine, by Noel Cossart. Shipping weight 5 lbs.. 2nd ed. . VG/Fine. 27½ X 20 cm.

Florence: Casa Editrece Bonechi, 2002 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Translated by Julia Weiss. Sewn in gloss pictorial wraps, 127 pp. Contains 81 recipes in all categories needed to prepare complete meals including dessert. Profusely illustrated with color photos. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. Trade Paperback. Fine/No dj. 26 X 19½ cm.

New York & London: The Macmillan Company/Collier Macmillan Limited, 1965 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Pale grey cloth, red & blue titles and green decorations on spine, xi, 243 pp, index. A few lines of pencil notes on ffep. DJ has a 1-inch chip to top of front panel and a crease to front flap; in Brodart archival cover. From the DJ: "This is a cookbook that is as good to read as it is to cook from. For Nika Hazelton does not confine herself to the three hundred and more delectable recipes; she envelops each dish and the locality of country of its origin in a aura of history, anecdote, and folklore. She made an extensive "cook's tour" of the five Scandinavian countries, where she translated from books and magazines, interviewed housewives and professionals, visited homes and restaurants, gathered data and collected recipes. The result is a comprehensive yet selective work on both the simple and the elegant eating habits… Read More

New York: A. L. Burt Company, 1923 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Burt, usually a reprint house, uncharacteristically holds the copyright on this book, and we can find no indication of an earlier or later printing. Brown cloth, gold ink titles on front board & spine, 215 pp, 6 ff color plates including frontispiece, b & w pictorial title & dedication pages and chapter headings, index. Small snag to front fore-edge, else VG, cloth rubbed, titles corroded. Contents: dressings; salads (fruit, vegetable, gelatine, meat or fowl, egg, fish, cheese); sandwiches; breads; rolls & biscuits; cracker combinations; relishes. Fits in small flat-rate box. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. Presumed First Edition. . G+/No dj. Illus. by Elizabeth Colborne. 19 X 13 cm.

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1963 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. No additional printings noted. Beige decorative boards, straw-colored cloth spine with red titles, ix, 373 pp, index. DJ lightly rubbed & spine slightly faded; in Brodart archival cover. This book by the author of The Blueberry Hill Cookbook contains a party menu and a family menu for each month of the year, recipes for the dishes in each menu, and recipes for using up the leftovers. Masterton leaves nothing to chance. Fits in small flat-rate box. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . Fine/Near Fine. 20½ X 13 cm.

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1964 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. No additional printings noted. Brown decorative boards, brown cloth spine with dark brown titles, [xiii], 258 pp, index. DJ lightly rubbed & spine somewhat faded; in Brodart archival cover. This book by the author of The Blueberry Hill Cookbook and The Blueberry Hill Menu Cookbook contains "a compendium of Elsie's notes on food, both recipes and whims and fancies as she has set them down, through the years, in her on informal kitchen notebook which hangs beside her range at Blueberry Hill Farm. Elsie's full of bright ideas; more important, she knows one when she hears one, and in this book she has 275 new and fabulous recipes as well as at least that many thoughts and suggestions on every category of food." Fits in small flat-rate box. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . Fine/Near Fine. 20½ X 13 cm.

Solebury, PA: Trinity Episcopal Church, 1989 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Copyright 1983. Green, black, & white covers, [i], 275, [1] pp, dozens of drawings, index. Shelf wear to covers. 400 recipes by residents of Bucks County, PA, some of them famous (e.g. James Michener). Shipping weight 2 lbs.. 2nd ptg. Plastic comb bound. VG/No dj. 23 X 17 cm.

La Grange, IL: Privately Printed, 1940 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Brown cloth, gilt titles on spine, 821 pp, 136 figures, index, ads. Moderately rubbed, shaken hinges reglued. "This book is written for the student in butter making, the research worker in butter problems, the pure food and law-enforcing official and the butter maker and creamery operator. ... Above all, it appeals to the busy butter maker and creamery operator, who are in need, not of references and theories, but of dependable facts, scientifically sound and proven by practical experience...." Twenty-five chapters discuss buttermaking history; creamery organization, construction & equipment; care of milk & cream; cream separation; buying, receiving, & testing cream; pasteurization; removal of objectionable flavors; starters & ripening; churning; washing & salting; packing; by-products; markets; storage, properties, nutritional value, and grading of… Read More

New York: Privately Printed, 1923 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Ex-Library. Library cloth-backed boards, paper label (perhaps clipped from original cover) on front board, 32 pp, bibliography. This pamphlet has a large taped tear on pp 5-6, and is falling out of its library binding. Extended title: "In which is included a true and accurate notation of Early English and Colonial American Receipts, showing the beginning and progress of the Gentle Art of Cake Making to the present time." Printed in the copyright year of 1923, hence presumed to be the first (and probably only) edition. Shipping weight 1 lb.. Presumed First Edition. . G-/No dj. 21 X 14½ cm.

New York: Crown Publishers, 1985 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Red cloth, 128 pp including numerous color and b/w illustrations, index. Both boards dented on top edge, gift inscription on ffep, else fine. DJ has wrinkles on flaps matching the dents in boards; in Brodart archival cover. History, 70 recipes, nutritional benefits, strawberries in art, cultivation. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First US Edition. . Near Fine/Fine. 21½ X 15½ cm.

Indianapolis & New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc., 1972 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Greenish-grey cloth, foil titles on spine, ix, 398 pp, index. Has a couple of tiny ink spots on fore-edge, else fine. DJ rear flap creased; in Brodart archival cover. For the cook who is tired of the "dip it in milk, roll it in flour, and fry it" method of cooking fish and other seafood, here are other techniques and 500 recipes for more interesting dishes. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. . Near Fine/Near Fine. 23½ X 16 cm.

New York & Oxford: Facts on File, Inc., 1990 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Black boards, grey cloth spine with black titles, viii, 199 pp, bibliography, index. Owner's signature on ffep. DJ corners & spine ends slightly rubbed; in Brodart archival cover. For each herb or spice in the alphabetical listing, gives brief botannical information, how it is used for flavoring food, how it affects your body (including both benefits and adverse effects), and how to grow and/or cook it. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. BOMC. . Near Fine/Near Fine. 23½ X 16 cm.

Minneapolis: Privately Printed, 1970 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Inscribed by author. Inscribed by Meadows and also signed by Minneapolis Mayor Charles Stenvig on recto of front free endpaper. Violet cloth with titles printed in gold ink on front board and spine, [iv], 171 pp, 8 b&w photos, numerous small line drawings, glossary. Meadows had a cooking show on WTCN TV and hosted a "'tired housewives club,' for women to meet, chat and swap food ideas" at luncheon programs that featured television entertainers and Hank's recipes. Recipes in the book are in various styles. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . Fine/Near Fine. 23½ X 16 cm.

London: Spring Books, 1960 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Full orange cloth, gilt titles on spine, 260 pp, index. DJ shows some rubbing & small edge tears; in Brodart archival cover. Wide-ranging yet compact book of German recipes. Contents: soups; fish; poultry & game; meat; vegetables & salads; desserts; cakes & biscuits; pastry & dough; pâtés; sauces, garnishes & forcemeats; offal & sausages; small savoury dishes; preserves; pickles; drinks. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. Revised Ed. . VG+/VG. 20½ X 13½ cm.