First Edition. The trade issue (there was a signed limited) of this cookbook published shortly after her TV show, The French Chef, came to an end. Many of the recipes were included in the color episodes of the TV show. Illustrated with drawings and photographs by Paul Child, Julia's husband.....

First Edition. An early cookbook published in the Congo, with a section reprinting recipes from an earlier cookbook that is not recorded in OCLC or the Belgian national library. According to the introduction by Madeleine (Neve) Ryckmans (the wife of the Governor General), the author, probably a British colonist, had.....

First Edition. A remarkable and largely overlooked contribution to early Chinese-American culinary literature—issued as a government agricultural bulletin. While Shiu Wong Chan’s The Chinese Cook Book (1917) remains the best-known Chinese cookbook of the era, its recipes are meat-centered and rely on preserved vegetables like canned bamboo shoots and dried.....

A terrific 19th century Chinatown albumen photograph that offers an interesting contrast to Taber's many well-known photographs of Cheong Wo & Co., a butcher shop that was located nearby. This view was just a half-block away, at the corner of Washington Street and the Washington Place alley. The shops in.....

An unmounted imperial cabinet card-sized albumen silver print of a large room in a Chinese restaurant, empty of people. The room is decorated with carvings and hanging scroll paintings. This view may have been taken inside the restaurant at 824-826-828 Washington Street, the only restaurant on Washington Street in the.....

First Edition. One of the better-known British suffrage cookbooks, assembled by the Birmingham chapter of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS) as a fundraiser. Suffragists from around the United Kingdom submitted recipes. The final section includes "Menus for Meals for Suffrage Workers" offered as "an attempt to cope.....

First Edition. A privately printed version of the diary kept by Otani Kahyoe, the president of the Japan Central Tea Traders' Association. "Mr. Otani visited America and Europe in 1899–1900, when he represented both the Tokyo and Yokohama Chambers of Commerce at the Philadelphia Commercial Convention" (William Harrison Ukers, All.....

11 sheets, 6-3/4 by 11-3/4 inches, in a 12-1/2 by 11 inches. Published in an edition of 100 copies. Each sheet offers a traditional Cuban recipe printed letterpress on handmade paper. The recipes are inserted into a shaped folder reminiscent of a basket with a thick string handle, a mounted.....

A boudoir cabinet card of men posing in the left side of a Chinese grocery store displaying vegetables for sale in barrels and bins. From other images of the same store we know that to the right, not very visible in this image, was the butcher. This is an uncommon.....

First Edition. The most famous American cookbook for which there are no recorded copies of the first printing in any library. This is the rare fragile, self-published first edition, published in an edition of just 800 copies. The Moosewood Cookbook, perhaps more than any other cookbook, brought vegetarian, whole-food cooking.....

The second ediiton of this reprint of Cobbett's 1820s book on home economy with Chesterton's introduction. With a plate from the original redesigned by Eric Gill. xi, 220 pages. A very good to near fine copy in a very good dust jacket with light chipping to the edges of the.....

First Edition. A guide to American, French, and British manners and customs for Japanese travelers and for Japanese who encounter Westerners at home. The book is an expansion of the author's earlier work on French manners, covering names, calling cards, stationery, letter writing, introductions and handshakes, weddings and divorce, meals.....

A Second World War homefront poster encouraging Americans to participate in price-control efforts in order to keep inflation under control. The main graphic shows two women reaching for their baskets of groceries. The woman from 1918—the First World War—finds the basket out of reach. The "modern" 1944 woman can easily.....