I stumbled on this “Favorite Recipes 1951” cookbook somewhere…in a thrift store? at an estate sale? Eh, I don’t remember where I found it. But it’s got everything I love about a cookbook: it’s older than me it’s of regional Michigan interest it’s a church cookbook, and it’s clearly was well loved and used. So…
Cookbook
Dessertarata
Who doesn’t love dessert? Here’s an entire cookbook filled with desserts from around the world. The title “Dessertarata” is a play on the famous Desiderata prose poem by Max Ehrman. The poem is at the front of the book. This cookbook is from the New Apostolic Church Youth, St. Louis District 1982. It is softcover,…
The German and Viennese Cookbook 1956
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…
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…