Hardcover. NY, Grove Press, 2nd pr., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. In this immensely learned and attractive book, Visser gives a chapter to each of the nine ingredients of a simple dinner: corn with salt and butter, chicken with rice, lettuce with olive oil and lemon juice, ice cream. Each of these foods has a "weird, passionate, often savage history of its own," which she relates in spirited prose, rich in surprising facts, unexpected connections, and a well-documented outrage at what modern technology and agribusiness have done to purity and quality. This presents a remarkable amount of information seamlessly and entertainingly. Stated First Edition but lowest in number line is 2. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Bantam Books, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Like new. When her husband, Ben, drags her to the States for a gourmet cooking competition, the nervous and pregnant Ellie Haskell encounters mystery and murder in the American Midwest.

Hardcover. New York, Viking Studio, 1st US, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 483 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated with full color photographs. Light wear. Clean, unmarked pages.

Hardcover. New York, W.W. Norton & Company, 1st Edition, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 352 pages. Hardcover. Color illustrations throughout. Photography by Kristin Teig. Decorative cover boards. Decorated endpapers. In excellent condition. Pages clean. Spine straight. Binding tight.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Lippincott Company, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 312 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on front flyleaf. A Cape Cod cook book. Light foxing to fore edge copy. Very small tear to dust jacket lower spine. Faint yellowing to rear dust jacket top edge. Decorative staining to top edge copy block. Bright and clean; a tight copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, illustrated boards, 288 pages illustrated in color. INSCRIBED BY CHANG opposite title page. Award-winning and beloved chef Joanne Chang of Boston's Flour bakery may be best known for her sticky buns, but that's far from the limit of her talents. When Chang married acclaimed restaurateur Christopher Myers, she would make him Taiwanese food for dinner at home every night. The couple soon realised no one was serving food like this in Boston, in a cool but comfortable restaurant environment. Myers Chang was born and has turned into one of Boston's most popular restaurants. These recipes, all bursting with flavor, are meant to be shared, and anyone can make them at home - try Dan Dan Noodle Salad, Triple Pork Mushu Stir-fry, or Grilled Corn with Spicy Sriracha Butter.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 590 pages. SIGNED BY CO-AUTHOR MOLLY STEVENS ON HALF TITLE-PAGE. Light wear to edges of dust jacket, else a very nice, tight, clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Frederick A. Stokes, 1st, 1888, Hardcover, one in a series of small and useful cookbooks written by Murrey, veteran of the Continental Hotel in Philadelphia, Astor House in New York, etc. Illustrated boards with green cloth spine, 86 pages. Color illustration on front cover is heavily faded, edges worn. Interior clean, very good. The author dedicates the book to the inventor of the Sheldon Close-op Gas-Stove. Scarce book.

Hardcover. NY, Guild Hall/NY Times, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Great American artists of the 60's and 70's on the East End of LI giving up their secret recipes including photo of and artwork by them for Guild Hall of East Hampton. How about Lee Krasner's Hominy Puffs with Crabmeat, Robert Gwathmey's Egg Canape, Robert Dash's Hampton Greens, Greengages a la Warhol, Jack Lenor Larsen's Lemon Squares. the unforgettable Koo-Sauce by Willem de Kooning. 210 pages, art and photos in b&w, an unbelievable potpourri of American artists and their palate. Clean copy.

Softcover. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 280 pages. This entertaining and social history of women and cooking at the turn of the 20th century is laced with sly humor and lucid insight. The author uncovers our ancestors' widespread obsession with food, and tells readers why we think as we do about food today. The most memorable of the culinary movers was Fannie Farmer, whose cookbook was published in a modest 3000-copy edition in 1896. Stories about Farmer and other domestic scientists of the period add strong appeal to Shapiro's report. So do the parallels between early feminists and today's advocates of equal rights. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Phaidon Press, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial padded boards, 367 pages. The author belongs to the third generation of a family of pork devotees. The grandson of a village butcher on the Ardeche plateau in France, where they take their pork very seriously, Stephane is owner of VILLA 9 TROIS in Montreuil, near Paris, a highly-regarded restaurant that specializes in pork. Color photographs by Marie-Pierre Morel, illustrations by Jose Reis de Matos. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Urbana IL, AOCS Press , 3rd pr., 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy pictorial boards, 490 pages, b&w illustrations. Includes summary of the basic principles of edible oil refining, processing, and deodorizing, serving as a hands-on training manual for chemists, engineers, and managers new to the industry. The 15-chapter book includes current information on the bleaching of green oils and coconut oil, quality requirements for frying oil applications, and more. Written for the non-chemist new to the industry, the book makes it simple to apply these important concepts for the edible oil industry: Provides insights to the challenges of bleaching very green oils./ Includes new deodorizer designs and performance measures./ Offers insights on frying oil quality management./ Simple and easy-to-read language. Clean, bright copy, no markings.

Hardcover. Berkeley, Ten Speed Press, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 278 pages. Lovely photographs, tempting recipes. Lebovitz is known for creating desserts with bold, high-impact flavor, not fussy complicated presentations.

Hardcover. The Siamanto Press, Reprint, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 438 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Purple endpapers. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Black cover boards, white title on spine. Very good condition, just one small spot on bottom edge. Pages clean, binding tight, spine straight.

Hardcover. NY, Simon Element, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards, 256 pages, color plates. Salt Hank's love for food began when he first tasted salami on Christmas Day at six years old, and it changed the trajectory of his life. Hank, also known as Henry Laporte, now makes big-personality videos about the most flavor-packed food imaginable for millions of Die-Hard fans. His TikTok and Instagram videos may not have a lot of talking (except to capture Hank's gasps of joy when he tastes the final dish), but they do have many mouthwatering close-ups of dripping sauce, juicy meats, crispy bread, and whatever else is sure to stir the heart of viewers and leave them craving more. Salt Hank is his first cookbook that includes an entire chapter of fried food; main courses like Bang Bang Shrimp Tacos or Duck Breast with Potato Chips and Pan Sauce; a chapter dedicated to sauces and dips because Salt Hank wouldn't be Salt Hank without decadent sauces; plenty of recipes for pickles; and of course, sandwiches...a lot of sandwiches. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Morrow, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 273 pages, color and b&w illustrations. Here are the kinds of recipes you'd find if you visited the Woods family's home. Sylvia's daughter Bedelia is well known for her Barbecued Beef Short Ribs, which are as sassy and spicy as Bedelia herself. Kenneth, Sylvia's youngest son, has loved to fish ever since he was a child, spending his summers by the fishing hole in Hemingway. Now Kenneth's son, DeSean, enjoys fishing, too. Kenneth's Honey Lemon Tilefish, DeSean's favorite, is just one of Kenneth's special recipes presented here. And there are many, many other wonderful dishes, too. In this remarkable cookbook, Sylvia has gathered more than 125 soul food classics, including mouthwatering recipes for okra, collard greens, Southern-style pound cakes, hearty meat and seafood stews and casseroles, salads, mashed potatoes, macaroni and cheese, and more. These recipes are straight from the heart of the Woods community of family and friends.

Softcover. NY, Vintage, 1st pbk, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pages. That Sweet Enemy brings both British wit (Robert Tombs is a British historian) and French panache (Isabelle Tombs is a French historian) to bear on three centuries of the history of Britain and France. From Waterloo to Chirac's slandering of British cooking, the authors chart this cross-channel entanglement and the unparalleled breadth of cultural, economic, and political influence it has wrought on both sides, illuminating the complex and sometimes contradictory aspects of this relationship--rivalry, enmity, and misapprehension mixed with envy, admiration, and genuine affection--and the myriad ways it has shaped the modern world. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday & Company, reprint, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, two tone cloth covers with red lettering on spine., 308 pages. A clean, tight copy. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Artisan, 1st, 2024, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover i pictorial boards, 311 pages, color plates. For the first time ever, the recipes for pintxos--the small dishes found in bars in Basque Country--are gathered to present the definitive bible on this significant food of Basque culture, along with the history and people who created them, written by award-winning author Marti Buckley. *Named a Best Cookbook to Gift in 2024 by Chowhound, and a Best New Cookbook of Spring 2024 by Epicurious. In the first authoritative book on this subject, author and Basque transplant Marti Buckley defines what makes a pintxo, traces its history back several decades, and shares the recipes so home cooks can authentically recreate these tiny morsels in their own kitchens. Through 70 recipes, bar profiles, histories, and vivid photographs, The Book of Pintxos unlocks a window into this dynamic Basque food culture for curious eaters everywhere. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, price-clipped dust jacket, white cloth covers with gilt design, 177 pages. B&w illustrations by Demi Hitz. Stated First Edition. INSCRIBED BY TRANSLATOR FRANCIS CARPENTER on the front fly leaf. The 1st complete translation of thousand year old classic work. Includes biography of Lu Yu. Embellished by Demi Hitz's illustrations. Includes ritual of preparation, ingredients, environment Chinese tea ceremony. Light chipping, small tape repairs to rear of dust jacket. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Hyperion, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 383 pages. If you are into chocolate in any way, this highly regarded book is a "must have". There are loads of chocolate-centric recipes, written with the help of food writers, Ann Krueger Spivack and Susie Heller, and with contributions from many of the food elite: Michael Chiarello, Joanne Weir, Jacques Pepin, Alice Medrich, Nancy Oakes, Rick Bayliss, Elizabeth Falkner, David Lebovitz, Thomas Keller and so on. But this is more than a cookbook; it tells the story of chocolate and of the company, Scharffen Berger Chocolate Maker, founded by John Scharffenberger and the late Dr Robert Steinberg. And it contains anecdotes on the Legends and Lore of chocolate. All illustrated with great photography.

Hardcover. Middlebury VT, Vermont Folklife Center, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. In rural Quebec in the 1830s, Jenny is hired to help a family by cooking and cleaning after her predecessor, the beloved Emily, has died, but Jenny is mysteriously prevented from completing one of her chores. Color illustrations by Lydia Dabcovich.

Hardcover. Middlebury VT, Vermont Folklife Center, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. In rural Quebec in the 1830s, Jenny is hired to help a family by cooking and cleaning after her predecessor, the beloved Emily, has died, but Jenny is mysteriously prevented from completing one of her chores. Color illustrations by Lydia Dabcovich.

Hardcover. NY, W. W. Norton , 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. After the Second World War, a newly affluent United States reached for its own gourmet culture, one at ease with the French international style of Escoffier, but also distinctly American. Enter James Beard, authority on cooking and eating, his larger-than-life presence and collection of whimsical bow ties were synonymous with the nation's food for decades, even after his death in 1985. In the first biography of Beard in twenty-five years, acclaimed writer John Birdsall argues that Beard's struggles as a closeted gay man directly influenced his creation of an American cuisine. Starting in the 1920s, Beard escaped loneliness and banishment by travelling abroad to places where people ate for pleasure, not utility, and found acceptance at home by crafting an American ethos of food likewise built on passion and delight. Informed by never-before-tapped correspondence and lush with details of a golden age of home cooking, The Man Who Ate Too Much is a commanding portrait of a towering figure who still represents the best in food. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt titles on the spine. A cook book interwoven with the author's typical New England lighthearted commentary. Written with her daughter, 234 pages. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Murdoch Books, 1st, 2024, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial cloth, 231 pages, color plates. Melbourne food people and out of towners in the know quickly formed a queue at Andreas Papadakis's tiny city eatery when word of his astonishingly good pasta got out. What could this unassuming Greek chef's secret be, they wondered - he's not even Italian! Here, at last, across 80-plus recipes, Andreas welcomes loyal fans and readers into the Tipo 00 vault and shows them how it's possible to recreate the magic at home. Covering different fresh pasta techniques, shapes and sauces, and including step-by steps, Tipo 00, the book, is a master-class for anyone who wants to revolutionize their pasta game. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Sydney/London, Murdoch Books , 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards, 327 pages, color plates. An Asian cookbook written with fresh eyes by an author whose soul lies in Asia but who has adopted techniques and ingredients from the west that endear his recipes to cooks everywhere. Structured by food type - from meat, poultry and seafood to vegetables, and dumplings -Tony Tan's Cooking Class takes readers through the fundamentals of more than 100 beloved dishes, many core to the canon, others dishes that he has made his own. Tan shares insights on the key building blocks, from the art of the wok to understanding the role of oils and fats to noodles 101 and the essential pantry. Beautifully photographed, thoughtfully illustrated and evocatively written, this is the essential book for a new generation on the essential foods and techniques of Asian cuisine from a beloved teacher, cook, writer and respected expert. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, The Blue Sky Press, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED WItH A SKETCH BY DESIMINI. Delia and Ophelia are witches. They're cooking up a particularly naughty spell for Halloween, and the main ingredient is super-stinky socks. That night, when the neighborhood children go trick-or-treating, the only words they can say are "Smell my feet!" Of course, no one gives them any candy, much to the delight of the two witches. The fun comes to an end when a mysterious ingredient causes the potion to backfire--returning the children to normal, and putting the witches in a very strange situation!

Softcover. Berkeley CA, University of California Press, 2nd pr., 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 421 pages, b&w illustrations. Located only blocks from Tokyo's glittering Ginza, Tsukiji-the world's largest marketplace for seafood-is a prominent landmark, well known but little understood by most Tokyoites: a supplier for countless fishmongers and sushi chefs, and a popular and fascinating destination for foreign tourists. Early every morning, the worlds of hi-tech and pre-tech trade noisily converge as tens of thousands of tons of seafood from every ocean of the world quickly change hands. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Berkeley CA, Ten Speed Press, 1st thus, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards, 385 pages, color illustrations. James Beard Award-winning chefs Jody Williams and Rita Sodi share the secrets of their beloved restaurant, which has become synonymous with New York City's Greenwich Village. Since 2014, Via Carota has been a destination for food lovers, celebrities, and well-informed travelers because of its impeccable Italian fare. Emphasizing vegetables and seasonal cooking, the dishes that come out of Williams and Sodi's kitchen are astonishing in their simplicity yet dazzling in their elegance. Now, with this beautiful, deeply personal cookbook, they share the keys to cooking Via Carota's traditional (but not too traditional) cuisine at home. Clean copy.

Hardcover. US, Baby Tattoo Books, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Hardcover, 64 pages. SIGNED book plate. A beautifully produced and richly illustrated book that showcases the day-to-day adventures of independent girl-about-town Victoria Psismall and her pet land octopus Otto. Thirty panoramic, full-page illustrations humorously chronicle the duo's home and social activities that include (among other things) bathing, biking, dating, cooking, playing croquet, and pumpkin carving. Accompanying text explains the "do"s and "don't"s of living with a large land octopus. The book's art is extremely detailed, and each illustration tells its own visual story. The Victorian era characters and period-influenced design elements combine to create a wonderful, collectible art-object for those who still value the classic elegance of ink-on-paper. The hardcover binding is plussed with two-layer embossing and spot varnish, and the interior is printed on extra heavy paper. An exquisite volume for lovers of books, art and pets.

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, reprint, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 312 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY JULIA CHILD on HALF TITLE PAGE. Otherwise, clean, tight copy with minor wear to cover edges. Color photographs throughout.

Softcover. Cambridge MA, Lever Brothers, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, small stapled brochure with color, b&w illustrations, 48 pages. A promotional cookbook for Spry Vegetable Shortening (a competitor of Procter & Gamble's Crisco), which was produced by Lever Brothers from 1936 and thru the 1940s.

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Like new. Ellie and Ben Haskell, along with their employee Mrs. Malloy, travel to Cragstone House in Yorkshire after Ariel Hopkins, daughter of Ben's cousin, Tom, asks for Ellie's help in investigating the strange, somewhat ghostly goings-on at the gothic manor. Tom and his wife, Betty, recently purchased the manor from the financially strapped Lady Fiona after they won the lottery. Betty is convinced Lady Fiona murdered her husband, who has disappeared. With the cook laid up with an injured ankle, Ben takes over the cooking, and Ellie handles the investigating. Ellie's life becomes more complicated when Ben meets up with an old girlfriend, and it seems the flame has been rekindled. Humor, quirky characters, and gothic underpinnings. The 12th Ellie Haskell mystery.

Hardcover. New York, Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 1st Edition, 2008, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 199 pages. Hardcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Decorated cover boards, pristine. Pages and edges clean and bright. Binding tight. Spine straight. In beautiful, like new condition. Adapting all his recipes for the home cook, Torres showcases his favorite chocolate creations--from traditional French pastry to classic American treats.