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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.
Vegetable Cook Book
by MIDDLETON, Katharine
Winnipeg: McFayden Seed Co., 1941. Booklet. Near fine. 37 p. 21 cm. B&w illustrations. Stapled card covers. Driver M121.1. Sections on canning, household storage, Winnipeg dates for starting vegetables indoors, making pickles, etc.
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$25.00
New Waseca County Cook Book: Favorite Recipes of 350 Homemakers
by KOZAN, Mrs. F. J., et al
Waseca, MN: W.C.C.B. Committee, 1989. 7th printing. Softcover. Good. 122 p. 22 cm. Spiral binding. Letters painted on lower spine. A little wear to edges. Typed note taped inside front cover.
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$40.00
The Uncommon Cook Book II
by Art Gallery of Windsor
Windsor, Ont., 1986. Softcover. Good. 285 p. 22 cm. Colour plates. Spiral binding. Some soiling and wear to covers and text block edge.
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$20.00
Los 30 menus del mes. Manual de la cocina caesra exclusivamente para la republica Mexicana. Quinta edicion
by Pardo, Alejandro
Mexico [City]: Herrero Hermanos Sucs., n.d., 1929. 12mo, pp. 301, [1]; original pictorial boards backed in green cloth; boards with 2 creases, edges rubbed, text toned; a good and reasonably sound copy. No edition located in OCLC.
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$155.25
Sauerkraut and Enterprise
by STAEBLER, Edna; VAN KAMPEN, Vlasta (illus.)
McClelland & Stewart, 1982. Second Revised Edition. Softcover. Good. 96 p. 19 cm. B&w drawings. Paperback. Moderate wear to extremities. Signed by author on title page. Commentary on food and the Almish way of life. Intro by Pierre Berton.
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$10.00
Menu for the San Francisco Retail Lumber Dealers Association Annual Banquet for 1913
by Bergez-Frank's Old Poodle Dog Restaurant
San Francisco: Bergez-Frank's Old Poodle Dog Restaurant,1913. 4pp. 6 x 5.375 inches. printed on tan stock. In 1908, the owners of the Poodle Dog, the Old Poodle Dog, John Bergez Restaurant and Frank's Rotisserie merged their businesses, opening Bush Street and Claude Lane under Lalanne with partners Jean B. Pon, Jean Bergez, Louis Coutard and Camille Mailhebeau. The restaurant now boasted five floors; the top floor offered a ballroom. A side door mimicked the earlier establishment with a birdcage...
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$60.00
Woodfield Cooks
by LINDSAY, Ann McColl, DESBARATS, Hazel & TROUGHTON, Ulla (eds.); LINDSAY, David (illus.)
London, Ontario: Ardith, 2010. Softcover. Near fine. 337 p. 23 cm. B&w line drawings. Paperback.
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$15.00
The Story of the Tea Plant
by Salada Tea Company of Canada Ltd
Toronto: Sampson-Matthews Ltd, nd. Booklet. Good. [20 p.]. 19 cm. Illustrations in partial colour. Paper covers. Light wear to edges. Outlines the story of the tea plant, cultivation and manufacture, important facts, how to make a good cup.
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$15.00
The Homemaker's Guide Book
by The Homemaker (PURSER, Mona Cleaver)
Toronto: The Globe and Mail, nd. Booklet. Very good. 62, [2] p. 23 cm. B&w portrait of Purser. Black paper covers with red print. Staplebound. Light soiling to title page.v Not just culinary, but hints for laundry and stains, sick room, care of clothes, sewing, floors, cleaning, etc.
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$15.00
Dear Francesca: A Cookbook With Love
by CONTINI, Mary
London: Ebury Press, Random House, 2002. Special editon for Valvona & Crolla. Hardcover. Near fine/Fine. 351 p. 24 cm. B&w illustrations. Burgundy cloth in mylar-covered dustjacket. Inscribed by author on half title, slightly marking page opposite.
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$30.00
![PROPER TERMS II " TEARMES OF A KERUER" [Terms of a carver]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/982/576/1488576982.0.b.jpg)
PROPER TERMS II " TEARMES OF A KERUER" [Terms of a carver]
by Hodgkin, John
London: Philological Society, 1915. Reprinted from the Philological Society's Transactions, 1915, pp. 52-94. Covers very good with light general wear. Contents clean and tight, no inscriptions. A very good copy. Outlines the terms and phrases once used that relate to carving birds, fish etc."Tusk that Barbel".... Paperback. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 8vo. Book.
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£30.00
Best Recipes This Side of Heaven: Home-Tested Recipes from Anglican Church Ladies
by REGIMBAL, Lynn, et al
Yorkton, Sask.: Holy Trinity Anglican Church Cookbook Committee, Sept. 1989. Softcover. Fair. 224 p. 24 cm. Spiral binding. Soiling to covers and within. Of course, because a clean cookbook can't be very good. Cake section is especially messy. Asterisk beside Aunt Mary's Chocolate Cake that "Never Fails."
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$30.00
Old Hemmingford Recipes
by PETCH, Carol (comp.)
Imprimie Cyan Printing, July 1977. Softcover. Good. 128 p. 22 cm. Stapled brown card covers. Signed by author on first leaf. Tears in edges of pp. 61-63. On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the incorporation of Hemmingford village. No location given but likely Hemmingford, Quebec.
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$40.00
Favourite Recipes of Canadian Women
by Nestlé's
Nestle's, February 1935. Staplebound. Very good. 31 cm. 17 cm. B&w illustrations. Staplebound booklet with paper covers. Light wear and a few spots to covers. Recipes from the cooks of Mrs. W. D. Herridge, Martha Allan, Mrs. John V. Casgrain, Mrs. Hugh H. McLean Jr., Mrs. W. H. Covert, Mrs. J. A. McAvity, Betty Sandford Smith, and Mrs. G. A. P. Brickenden. All recipes use Nestlé evaporated milk.
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$30.00
Selected Recipes
by The Ontario Equitable Life & Accident Insurance Company
Waterloo, ON, ca. 1930. Softcover. Fair. 86 p. 22 cm. Red paper covers with hole for tie in top corner. Chipped edges. Red has "bled" onto first and last pages. Driver 0677.1. Most recipes contributed by members of St. Quentin Chapter of the Imperial Order of the Daughters of the Empire and published in a cookbook which they allowed Equitable Life to reprint.
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$35.00
Food Manual for use in Classes of Home Economics Department
by Teachers of Home Economics Department of the Saint John City Schools in 1943
Saint John, NB: Board of School Trustees of Saint John, NB, 1950. Revised in 1948. Fourth edition. Hardcover. Good. 62 p. 23 cm. B&w diagrams. Blue cloth on cardboard. A few spots to cloth and minor wear to covers. Dark stains to inner margins on front endpapers and up to pp. 20-21. Front free endpaper has chipped upper corner and ink signature.
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$25.00
Molto Gusto: Easy Italian Cooking.
by BATALI, Mario. and Mark Ladner. Photographed by Quentin Bacon
New York: Ecco Press, 2010. Signed by Mario Batali on the title page. First edition / First printing. Pictorial laminated boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket.
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$45.00
![Manuscript on paper, entitled on paper label on upper cover "Chosen jin tochaku on kondate" ["Banquet Menus for Korean Delegations"]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/027/179/1362179027.0.b.jpg)
Manuscript on paper, entitled on paper label on upper cover "Chosen jin tochaku on kondate" ["Banquet Menus for Korean Delegations"]
by BANQUETS FOR THE KOREAN DELEGATION TO JAPAN
36 folding leaves, of which four are blank. 8vo (240 x 170 mm.), orig. blue semi-stiff wrappers (wrappers somewhat worn), orig. label, heightened in gold, with manuscript title, new stitching. [Japan]: n.d.<br /> During the Edo period, there were 12 Korean delegations to Japan, whose purposes were mostly to congratulate a new Tokugawa shogun. The missions, which normally included 300-500 Koreans, accompanied by roughly 1500 Japanese escorts, symbolized the amicable relationship between the...
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$7500.00
French Country Cooking
by DAVID, Elizabeth
London: John Lehmann, 1952. Second impression. Hardcover. Good/Fair. x, 247 p. 21 cm. B&w line drawings. Grey cloth in pictorial dustjacket. Chipes and tears to jacket edges, especially bottom edge of rear panel. Some spotting and soiling to jacket evident on flaps. Front flap price-clipped. Small label on front pastedown. Ink notation on rear pastedown. Foxing (or food spatter) to pages and text block edges. Sections on wine in the kitchen, the menu, lunch, supper and family dishes, food out of tins,...
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$50.00
Gastronomical and Culinary Literature.
by Feret, Barbara L
"The purpose of this study being to survey, identify, and analyze important U.S. collections of printed materials on the culinary arts... the criteria for significance hereinproposed are intended to reflect in some way the expectations of... the chef, the household cook, the antiquarian, the gourmand." 124 pages; 22 cm. Bound in green cloth with gold spine & front-cover lettering; nearly new. Stock#ofc0727.
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$20.00
SUPERIOR COOK BOOK
by Prepared by the women of Grace Church, Ishpeming, Michigan
Ishpeming, Michigan: The Peninsular Record Publishing Co. Ltd., 1905. First Edition. Oil cloth on boards. Fair condition. Small quarto (10 1/4 x 7 inches) [9] 184 pages, well used, with penciled recipes, missing preliminary flyleaves, interspersed with mostly local advertisements, original oilcloth binding stained and worn, but holding, wear to lower spine, contents generally clean, with cooking stains on some pages, part of page 123 torn, but present (stuck to opposite page). A well used, and...
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$25.00
The Physiology of Taste : Or, Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy
by Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Counterpoint Press, 1995. Hardcover. Good. Disclaimer:A copy that has been read, but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. The spine may show signs of wear. Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include previous owner inscriptions. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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$7.09
The French Wine and Liquor Manufacturer
by RACK, John
New York: Dick & Fitzgerald, nd. Fourth Edition, revised and corected. Hardcover. Good. vi, [1], 16-273, [7] p. 19 cm. B&w line drawings. Burgundy cloth. Spine fad3d and steaked. Spine ends softened, boards rubbed. Starting to crack at pp. 40-41. A Practical Guide and Receipt Book for the Liquor Merchant. Being a clear and comprehensve treatise on the manufacture and imitation of Brandy, Rum, Gin and Whiskey: With Practical Observations and rules for the manufacture and management of all kinds of...
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$50.00
Recipes to Celebrate; Prince of Wales Collegiate heralds Newfoundland's 400th Anniversary
by Foundation For Education Association (ed.)
St. John's, Nfld.: Jesperson Press and Dicks & Co. Ltd. , 1983. Softcover. Near fine. vi, 7-203 p. 24 cm. B&w illustrations. Sprial binding. Includes Rosy Fish Chowder, Newfoundland Stew, Partridgeberry Bread, South Shore chicken, and a host of more international dishes.
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$15.00
Two fine & luxuriously painted scrolls (260 x 4900 mm.; 260 x 4930 mm.) on mica paper, gold-flaked on verso, with gold endpapers at each end of both scrolls, endpapers backed with orig. silk brocade at beginning of each scroll
by RICE CULTIVATION THROUGH THE FOUR SEASONS: Two Scrolls
[Japan: early mid-Edo]. The theme of the four seasons of rice cultivation has had an extensive presence within Japanese art and literature. These two luxury festive scrolls beautifully depict the year-long cycle of rice growing in Japan, along with the ancillary activities that took place during the year in the countryside, including falconry, growing vegetables and fruits, seasonal festivals, ways of relaxation, and the annual tribute of rice to the fiefdom lord. The activities shown on these...
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$35000.00
