The German and Viennese Cookbook is a pamphlet from the Culinary Arts Institute and was published in 1956. It’s #120 in the “Cooking Magic” series. There were twenty-four pamphlets in this series, and I have two of them; I’ll show you the Italian Cook Book sometime later. The Culinary Arts Institute of Chicago was one…
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Indian Vegetarian Cookery by Jack Santa Maria
The Indian Vegetarian Cookery cookbook is #43 on the Guardian’s 2010 50 Best Cookbooks Of All Time list — a list to peruse if you love cookbooks. Each cookbook gets a short sentence or two. Indian Vegetarian Cookery receives this: Authoritative authentic recipes from the greatest vegetarian nation. A book to lovingly splatter with turmeric-died…
Plains Pot Pourri Cookbook 1976
In 1976, Jimmy Carter was in between jobs: he had just ended a term as governor of Georgia and had not yet become the 39th President of the United States. The US was celebrating the bicentennial and the Plains Jr. Women’s Club in Carter’s hometown of Plains, GA jumped in on the celebration with Plains…
Lafcadio Hearn’s Creole Cookbook
If you’re a fan of Creole cooking, best look to pick up a copy of Lafcadio Hearn’s Creole Cookbook. Best known for books about Japan, Lafcadio Hearn lived in New Orleans for 10 years and wrote extensively about his life while there. One result of those years in New Orleans is the Creole Cookbook, a…
The Galloping Gourmet Cookbooks
These three Galloping Gourmet cookbooks jumped out at me in a local thrift store. I can vaguely remember seeing the Galloping Gourmet on public TV, but I was too young to really be into it. Where is the Galloping Gourmet Today? Curiously, just as I was scheduling this post, an article about Graham Kerr appeared…