Cooking

Lot of four (4) sets of Pei Wei's Chinese Cooking Cards Each card set contains 24 color illustrated 5.25 x 6 inch recipe cards plus and index card all held in an illustrated card stock case. The cards feature a color photograph of the finished dish on one side and the recipe on the other side. 1. Chicken recipes include: Smoked Chicken Peiking Style Jellied Chicken with Brown Sauce Deep Fried Paper Wrapped Chicken Steamed Chicken with Green Onion Bon-Bon Chicken Tung-An Chicken Diced Chicken with Walnuts Stir-Fried Chicken in Bird's Nest Chicken with Dry Red Pepper Gon-Bao Style Minced Chicken with Peanuts Diced Chicken with Bean Sauce Steamed Chicken Salad San-Tun Style Sauteed Chicken Cheng-Tu Style Stewed Chicken with Vegetables Chicken Strings with Bean Sprout Chicken and Bean Sheets Salad Stir-Fried Minced Chicken Fried Chicken Slices with Lemon Sauce Deep Fried Spiced Boneless Chicken Chicken Rolls with Ham and Black Mushroom Stewed Chicken in Casserole Braised Chicken Wings with… Read More

Fair or Poor condition. Pages are fragile and chipping at the end, has stains, pencil marks at favorite recipes and ads plus some scribbling in pencil. Names of contributors and an abundance of advertisements from local businesses in Aurora, IL. A far west suburb of Chicago. 168 pages

1598 Lesina Company Dialogues Italian Political Satire Cuisine Finance Orvieto
In 16th-century Florence, there was a rise a style of literature that focused heavily on political satire. One such work was 'Company of the Lesina Dialogues'. This work of unknown authorship describes a group of travelers on the way to Lesina and their conversations. It covers a wide variety of topics including food and recipes, as well as money and finance – things the group sought upon arriving at their destination.

While there are no exact connections between the two, the parallels between 'Lesina' and Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales' are evident. Fictional travelers discussing life on their way to a destination.

This edition was published in Orvieto, Italy in 1598. A unique 16th-century work published in a small Italian town.
Item number: #8241
Price: $950
BUONI, Tommaso [attrib.]
Della famosissima compagnia della lesina dialogo, capitoli, e ragionamenti: Con l'aggiunta d'vna nuoua riforma, additione, &… Read More

Paris: Au Bureau du Dictionnaire Général de Cuisine, 1839. First edition. Full marbled leather, gilt spine titles and decorations, marbled endpapers. Published Paris: Au Bureau du Dictionnaire Général de Cuisine, 1839. Large 8vo., 6 3/4" x 10", 635pp., comprising 3 sections - Dictionnaire de la Cuisine Française; Recueil des Menus; Pharmacie Domestique, ou Recueil des Recettes Medicales. Title page lacking, text complete, pages clean and bright with no markings or foxing. Light spill outline to top margin of of several sets of leaves, else very good internally. Binding tight, leather strong, rubbed at the tips. . 1st. Hard. Good/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo.

1891 Beeton's Everyday Cookery Cooking Food Illustrated Baking Recipes Cooking
Isabella Mary Beeton also known as Mrs. Beeton, was an English journalist, editor and writer. Her name is particularly associated with her first book, the 1861 work Mrs. Beeton's Book of Household Management.

"Beeton's Everyday Cookery" ranges widely across the foods of Europe and beyond, actively embracing new food stuffs and techniques. It is filled with colored illustrations depicting plates of food and various recipes.
Item number: #15008
Price: $499
BEETON, Isabella Mary.
Beeton's Every-Day Cookery and Housekeeping Book: a practical and useful guide for all mistresses and servants.
London, New York, Melbourne: Ward, Lock, & Tyler, [1891].

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· Collation: Complete with all pages
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[2], lxxxii, 568, [4]
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24 engravings, 7 colored
· Language: English
· Binding: Hardcover; secure
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Cloth
· Size: ~8in X 5.5in (20cm x 13.5cm)
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1970. First and Second Printings Before Publication. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good-. Cloth in DJ; First and Second Printings Before Publication; 555pp + 54pp (index); DJ slightly wrinkled & edgeworn with original price ($12.50) intact, boards square, clean & bright, minor staining to edges, text unmarked, binding is tight, VG/VG- condition. Stated: "Published October 22, 1970, First and Second Printings Before Publication" on Copyright Page. Second volume of Child & Beck's breakthrough French cooking manual. Illustrated with line drawings.

First edition. No DJ issued. Marcus Sparling was Assistant to Roger Fenton, Esq. in taking the Crimea photographs. This book provides a rare insight into the chemical knowledge of the mid-eighteen hundreds, surrounding the new sciences of photography, food chemistry and street lighting. Marbled paper-covered boards with leather spine and corners and gilt raised bands to spine. Marbled end papers and edges. Illustrations and diagrams throughout. CONDITION: spine very worn, particularly at ends. Spine partially detached at top back. Moderate wear to boards. Very light foxing to prelims. Pastedowns bright. Title page bright. Occasional finger marks in text block but otherwise clean and well-bound.

Boston: Waite, Peirce & Company, no. 1 Cornhill; [G.C. Rand, Printer, no. 3 Cornhill], 1846. Sextidecimo (18 x 11.5 cm.), 390 pages. Publisher's advertisements. Stated "Sixth Stereotype Edition"; originally published by George W. Light in 1838. Alcott was the first president of the American Vegetarian Society and founded of the American Physiological Society in 1837, the world's first physiological society. Much of this work is dedicated to vegetables, grains, and fruits, with additional chapters on keeping accounts and journals, the general purposes of house-keeping, and an interesting exploration into "Cooking as It Is," and "Cooking as It Should Be." Text-block age-toned but sound; lacking free front endpaper. Publisher's blind- and gilt-stamped brown cloth, worn at edges, especially the head and foot of the spine. Still, not unattractive; Near very good. [OCLC locates nine copies of this printing; Bitting, page 6 (later printing); Cagle 14-17 (other printings); Lowenstein 398].

8° grande (mm 235x158); cc. (2), pp. 129, (1), c. (1) [bianca]. Legata a sinistra del frontespizio, una tavola calcografica ripiegata - su disegno di "Ronzoni" e incisa da "Mugnon" - raffigurante una villa veneta con il suo giardino: Villa Buri a S. Michele (https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villa_Bernini_Buri). Qualche fioritura, tuttavia bell'esemplare, intonso, nell'originale brossura editoriale (con titolo Operette di vari autori intorno ai Giardini Inglesi ossia moderni con una tavola in rame).Editio princeps. Written by Ippolito Pindemonte (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ippolito_Pindemonte), a letterato fascinated by English culture, the Dissertation on the English Gardens is "the first Italian critical intervention on the irregular garden".All'importante Dissertazione del Pindemonte e alla sua Appendice fanno seguito il Saggio sopra l'indole dei Giardini moderni - di Luigi Mabil - letto all'Accademia di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti di Padova nell'anno 1796, due Relazioni di Melchiorre Cesarotti… Read More

1734 WINE Massialot French Cuisine Cooking Liqueurs Confitures Recipes Cookbook
François Massialot was a 17th-century French chef who wrote a number of cookbooks in addition to his well-known meals for French royalty such as Philippe I. One of his famous cookbooks was 'Nouvelle Instruction pour Les Confitures' which was a collection of recipes for jams, jellies, fruit dishes, and liqueurs and wines.
This 1734 printing of 'Confitures' was published in Paris by Prudhomme.
Item number: #21324
Price: $750
MASSIALOT, François
Nouvelle instruction pour les confitures, les liqueurs, et les fruits: où l'on apprend à confire toutes sortes des fruits, tant secs que liquids
A Paris, chez Claude Prudhomme, 1734.

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Collation: Complete with all pages
o [12], 547 (i.e., 545), [11]
o 3 folding plates
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Language: French
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Binding: Leather; tight and secure
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Size: ~6.75in X 4in (17cm x 10cm)
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1793 English Housekeeper COOKBOOK Recipes Desserts Cooking Cuisine Home-making

"Cut off the fins, and nick the brown side under the head; then take out the guts, and dry them with a cloth, boil them in salt and water; make either gravy, shrimp, cockle, or muscle sauce, and garnish it with red cabbage."
― Experienced English Housekeeper, 'To boil Flounders'

A monumental 18th-century cookbook! This 1793 edition of "The Experienced English Housekeeper" includes many recipes that would still be desirable in the 21st-century, but there are other recipes and methods that are significantly less desirable! Roasted Lark, Stewed Lampreys, and Walnut Catchup! The recipes are concise, short, and easy to read – which is helpful when you really want to make the cream custard dessert quickly! Note that this edition also contains folding engraved, illustrations!

Item number: #22274
Price: $750

RAFFALD, Elizabeth

The experienced English housekeeper : for the use and ease of ladies, housekeepers, cooks, &c.… Read More

Celadon Books, 2021. hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 106x17x151. Signed. BEAUTIFULLY SIGNED BY ERIN FRENCH on the front endpaper. NOT personalized to anyone! Includes a flower sticker likely added by Erin at time of signing (see photo). A lovely 5th printing in near fine condition inside and out. Comes with a recipe card for "Dad's Meatloaf" from Lost Kitchen cookbook. Looks terrific with a new mylar cover added to dust jacket. Expedited and international shipping are welcome; signed by author.

J. Scatcherd and J. Whitaker, B. Law, and G. and T. Wilkie. London. 1787. FOURTH EDITION. 8vo. (8.6 x 5.4 inches). Portrait frontis of Farley, plus 12 copper engravings of a bill of fare for each month of the year. Some light browning to a handful of leaves but generally a fresh and clean copy throughout. Finely bound in attractive recent full speckled tan calf. Spine with raised bands. The compartments ruled and lettered in gilt. Single blind ruled border on boards. gilt. A very good copy of this famous work.

FIRST PRINTING SIGNED BY ERIN on a special page added directly by the publisher so authenticity is guaranteed. Brand new, in gorgeous gift-worthy condition. Expedited and international shipping are welcome; signed by author.

Gallery Books, 2021-10-05. 1st Ed. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 9x6x1. Signed. FIRST PRINTING SIGNED BY STANLEY TUCCI! Authenticity guaranteed by publisher's statement on the signature page. Brand new gift worthy condition; simply a gorgeous book. Expedited shipping is welcome; signed by author.