Softcover. NY, Waring Products Corporation, 1947, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, stapled weappers. 64 pages. Operating & care instructions. Recipes for Beverages; Cakes; Canapes; Cookies; Desserts & Sauces; Entrees; Griddle Cakes & Waffles; Hot Breads; Ice Cream & Sherbets; Jellades; Omelets; Pies; Salads & Dressings; Sandwich Spreads; Sauces; and Soups. Includes a special section on Recipes for Children and Recipes For the Sick and Convalescent. Illustrated with drawings. Wrappers show light wear, mid soil.

Hardcover. New York, Smithsonian Books, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 253 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, inside and out. Tight binding, sharp corners, illustrations in bw, a nice copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Preston and his wife, Ruth, own Ellington Lodge. Preston is a checkers-playing fiend and is known around the neighborhood as the greatest checkers player in the world. When a small dog named Marley shows up at Ellington Lodge, Preston at first thinks he's harmless, and Ruth is delighted because Marley helps out with chores that Preston has no time for, due to his checkers games. Ever-helpful Marley soon seems to cast a spell over everyone at the lodge with his cooking talent, amazing storytelling, speed painting, and magic tricks. Color art by Egan. Dust jacket has some wrinkling, book is clean.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 2024, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in a bright pictorial boards, 208 pages, color plates. The queen of American Jewish cooking (Houston Chronicle) revises her children's classic for a new generation. In Jewish tradition, holidays are a time for family and feasting, and for Joan Nathan, nothing embodies the holiday spirit more than cooking delicious festive favorites with friends and loved ones. When her own children were young, Nathan published the first version of this book, which covers nine Jewish holidays and includes step-by-step instructions for kids and their families to prepare accessible feasts. Now she updates a beloved go-to resource for her grand-children's generation (Out with the Pot Roast! In with the Tahini Shakes!) and adds a heaping helping of new recipes. Included are dishes old and new, traditional and novel, and mouthwatering recipes that everyone will enjoy, from Moroccan Apricot Chicken and Chicken Schnitzel Tenders to Mushroom Kreplach Dumplings and Veggie Quiche.Included are essays on the history of Jewish holidays, instructions for how to celebrate them, and craft activities such as making challah covers and candlesticks. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Penguin Press, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket with light edgewear, 400 pages.This adventurous book charts the origins of the local "market cooking" culture that we all savor today. When Francophile Alice Waters opened Chez Panisse in Berkeley in 1971, few Americans were familiar with goat cheese, cappuccino, or mesclun. But it wasn't long before Waters and her motley coterie of dreamers inspired a new culinary standard incorporating ethics, politics, and the conviction that the best-grown food is also the tastiest. Based on unprecedented access to Waters and her inner circle, this is a truly delicious rags-to-riches saga.

Hardcover. Ten Speed Press, 5th pr., 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, 348 pages. A lushly photographed cookbook and travelogue showcasing the regional cuisines of the Alps, including 80 recipes for the elegant, rustic dishes served in the chalets and mountain huts situated among the alpine peaks of Italy, Austria, Switzerland, and France.A passionate exploration of all things Alpine . . . this one is a must-have for every ski bum foodie. Like new condition. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Softcover. West Bend WI, West Bend Aluminum Co., 1926, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 22 pages, b&w and color illustrations. Mild soil to wrappers.

Hardcover. Wiley, revised ed., 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 276 pages. This guide to artisan bread-baking, fully updated in a new edition, provides information on making breads at home for a fraction of the store-bought cost, and includes basic bread baking techniques and the required ingredients and equipment.

Hardcover. Gloucester MA, Peter Smith, reprint, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth covers, 569 pages. Two decades after Darwin, intellectuals were writing about the evolution of everything. In England Edward Taylor focused on material culture such as fire making, cooking, or tool making. In America, Lewis Henry Morgan, concentrated on social evolution combined with subsistence techniques. His thinking was influenced by his Iroquois neighbors in New York. Like many others he posited three stages of evolution: savagery, barbarism and civilization, but he refined the three periods with three subperiods. In Lower savagery, for example, he saw humans subsisting on fruits and roots in tropical climes, using gesture language and marrying siblings in a consanguine family. Middle savagery saw fish subsistence, monosyllabic language, and marriage of cousins. Bows and arrows appeared in Upper Savagery along with syllabic language, clans, and tribal organization. Obviously Morgan was speculating on most of the developments, but he had found arguments for his positions from the reports of explorers and missionaries around the world. As a result, Morgan inspired an era of inquisitive thought that led to the development of American anthropology. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Chicago, Walter M. Hill, 1st, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 300 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Covers chipped espcially on rear and faded. Internally clean, tight. Pages uncut and show some rubbing. Soil to bottom page block.

Hardcover. New York, St. Martin's Press, Reprint, 2008, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 242 pages. Hardcover. Photographs by Mark Luinenburg. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Blue cover boards, gilt title on spine. Pages and edges clean and bright. Binding tight, spine straight. In beautiful, like new condition. Now you can fill your kitchen with the irresistible aromas of a French bakery every day with just five minutes of active preparation time, and this book will show you how.

Hardcover. NY, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. With her outsize personality, Julia Child is known around the world by her first name alone. But despite that familiarity, how much do we really know of the inner Julia? Now more than 200 letters exchanged between Julia and Avis DeVoto, her friend and unofficial literary agent memorably introduced in the hit movie Julie & Julia, open the window on Julias deepest thoughts and feelings. This riveting correspondence, in print for the first time, chronicles the blossoming of a unique and lifelong friendship between the two women and the turbulent process of Julias creation of Mastering the Art of French Cooking, one of the most influential cookbooks ever written. Frank, bawdy, funny, exuberant, and occasionally agonized, these letters show Julia, first as a new bride in Paris, then becoming increasingly worldly and adventuresome as she follows her diplomat husband in his postings to Nice, Germany, and Norway. With commentary by the noted food historian Joan Reardon, and covering topics as diverse as the lack of good wine in the United States, McCarthyism, and sexual mores, these astonishing letters show America on the verge of political, social, and gastronomic transformation. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Greenberg Publisher, 1st, 1932, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in yellow cloth with green lettering and design, 416 pages, b&w illustrations. Covers worn, soiled. This was a generic cook book which was sold through various department stores. The title was altered to fit the store that was distributing it (ie: The Emporium's Modern Cook Book...) Names on front fly leaf.

Hardcover. London, Hardie Grant Books, 1st, 2024, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards, 255 pages, color illustrations. Following Benoit's guidance, you will make classic doughs, including puff pastry, choux pastry and brioche, learning how to create stand-out bakes with perfect texture and flavour. Try your hand at crispy, buttery Palmiers, classic viennoiseries like Pain aux Raisin, build pies and tarts including Tarte Tatin and Salted Caramel Millionaire Chocolate Tart, and make traditional offerings such as Coffee & Orange Creme Brulee and Macarons, as well as impressive recipes like Lemon & Grapefruit Dacquoise. With this masterclass from Chef Patissier at Le Manoir Aux QuatSaisons and judge of Bake Off: The Professionals, you will be inspired to create your own masterpieces at home. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Brookline, MA, America's Test Kitchen, 1st Edition, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 515 pages. Hardcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket unclipped, very good. Small notes written in by previous owner in a few places, doesn't obscure text or illustrations, pages and edges clean otherwise. Binding tight, spine straight. Decorated cover boards, pristine.

Hardcover. Interlink Publishing, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 256 pages. "Baladi" means "my home, my land, my country," and Joudie once again pays homage to her homeland of Palestine by showcasing its wide ranging, vibrant and truly delicious dishes. Experience the wonderful flavors of Palestine through Daoud Basha (lamb meatballs cooked in a tamarind and tomato sauce), khubzet za'atar (za'atar brioche twists), samak makli bil camun (fried fish selection with zucchini, mint and yogurt dip), atayef (soft pancakes filled with cream in an orange blossom sugar syrup), and many more sublime flavor combinations. Color illustrations, clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Fox Duffield & Co., 1st, 1904, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 350 pages, 13 pages of b&w photographs (12 African American portraits by A.L. Coburn). Textured blue cloth covers with dark blue lettering and ruled design. Some light soiling and wear to covers and spine. Internally clean, a few dog-eared pages.

Hardcover. NY, Clarkson Potter, 1st, 2024, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards, 319 pages, color illustrations. This stunning cookbook collects 100 of the most timeless and seminal recipes from the first leg of Bobby Flays monumental career in one place, for the first time ever. At the age of sixteen, Bobby Flay left high school and the idea of traditional education behind to pursue a life in professional restaurant kitchens. Through his groundbreaking restaurants, cookbooks, and numerous television shows, Flay has built a body of work that is one of the most influential in American culinary history. His stamp can be felt in restaurants across the country, as well as at the dinner table in many families' homes. Read the essays, absorb the photography, and most important, cook tantalizing dishes from this book. Bobby Flay has put decades of his daily work into these pages. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Artisan/Workman, 1st, 2024, Hardcover decorated gray boards with embossed gilt lettering. Knowledgeable, entertaining, and more than a little infatuated with his subject, award-winning food writer and chef Edward Lee gives us his insight into bourbon, telling us everything we should know about the mellow honey-brown treasure that's put Kentucky on the global map: How bourbon is made. Its history. How to read a label. A look inside the famous distilleries. The influence of oak. Tours of Kentucky's bourbon regions. How to taste bourbon like a professional. And, in the most delicious surprise, how to cook with bourbon, with 50 recipes from Bourbon-Glazed Chicken Wings and Blackened Salmon with Bourbon-Soy Marinade to a Bourbon and Butterscotch Pudding. Plus the best Old-Fashioned you'll ever mix. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap.

Hardcover. San Francisco, CA, Chronicle Books, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 239 pages. Hardcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Decorated cover boards, very good. Yellow ribbon bookmark attached top of spine. Pages and edges clean and bright. Binding tight, spine straight. In beautiful condition. This is the story of he world's most traveled sourdough as told by Malin Elmlid, the globe-trotting baker and founder of the Bread Exchange, who trades her handmade bread for family recipes, treasured experiences, and objects that have special meaning to all who trade with her.

Hardcover. Andrews McMeel , 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 373 pages. In Bread Matters, Andrew Whitley, professional organic baker, founder of Bread Matters, and cofounder of the Real Bread Campaign, exposes the terrible state of modern commercial bread and shares his recipes for making great, nutritious bread at home. Using the skills he has amassed during more than 25 years as a professional bread baker, Whitley clearly explains the process in detailed discussions of the tools, ingredients, methods, and tricks of the breadmaking trade. He also offers more than 50 foolproof recipes for all types of bread, including yeast-free and gluten-free loaves, as well as uses for leftover crumbs once they've passed their prime. Bread Matters is an essential bread book for beginning and seasoned bakers alike. Once you see how easy it is to make your own delicious bread at home, you may never buy commercial bread again.

Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 214 pages. Alcohol and caffeine are deeply woven into the fabric of life for most of the world's population, as close and as comfortable as a cup of coffee or a can of beer. Yet for most people they remain as mysterious and unpredictable as the spirits they were once thought to be. Now, in Buzz, Stephen Braun takes us on a myth-shattering tour of these two popular substances, one that blends fascinating science with colorful lore, and that includes cameo appearances by Shakespeare and Balzac, Buddhist monks and Arabian goat herders, even Mikhail Gorbachev and David Letterman (who once quipped, "If it weren't for the coffee, I'd have no identifiable personality whatsoever"). Clean copy.

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 436 pages, b&w illustrations. The humiliation of Russia by separatist rebels in the Chechen War marked a key moment in Russian - and perhaps world - history. In this new analysis Anatol Lieven offers a riveting account of the war as a means to explore the painful fate of the post-Soviet state. Lieven looks into the long, troubled history of Russian-Chechen relations, noting that each side despised the other for largely cultural reasons (the Chechens have long been involved in organized crime in major Russian cities, whereas Russians have long tried to strip Chechnya of its resources). He notes that Chechen society has historically been militarized (one Armenian said to Lieven, "The men are always fighting and the women are cooking for them, nursing their wounds, and bringing up their children"), making the mountain people a formidable foe. In the meanwhile, writes Lieven, the Russian military suffered from low morale and from corruption of various kinds: Russian field soldiers sold their guns to Chechen guerrillas for vodka and currency, while Russian officers stole their soldiers' pay and Russian politicians skimmed off the top. This is an extraordinary look at a little-known conflict. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 341 pages. First printing as indicated (per Random House protocol) by the stated "First Edition," with a number line ending in 2. Preface by Alice Waters. Notable for the artist Wayne Thiebaud's pen and ink drawings as well as his color art on the dust jacket. Clean copy with light fading to dj spine.