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Collectibles Spotlight

This month, our Collectibles team is showing off their favorite vintage, rare, and collectible cookbooks! Older cookbooks are almost magical in how they perfectly capture history and bring it back to life via their recipes and advice. Re-experience some old memories, or make new ones by sharing the history these books come with, and you may even find some extra special signed cookbooks from your favorite chefs!

Bestselling

Households Searchlight Recipe Book (The) (Hardcover) 1938

Irene Nunemaker Ida Migliario, Zorada Z. Titus, Harriet W. Allard

from $40.00

THE BOSTON COOKING-SCHOOL COOK BOOK. New Edition, Completely Revised with Illustrations

from $34.00

The Fannie Farmer Cookbook Eleventh Edition

Fannie Merritt Farmer

from $17.00

Meta Given's Modern Encyclopedia of Cooking (Vol 1 Only)

Meta Givens

from $56.00

Stella Standard's cook book

Stella Standard

from $45.00

The World Authority Larousse Gastronomique, the Encyclopedia of Food, Wine & Cookery

Prosper Montagné

from $21.00

Staff Favorites

Fanny Hill's cook book

Lionel H. Braun

from $124.00

Clementine in the Kitchen

Phineas Beck

from $21.00

Princess Pamela's Soul Food Cookbook

PRINCESS PAMELA

from $73.00

Bell's Best

Telephone Pioneers of America

from $34.00

Hippo Cook Book: Hippopotamus Hamburger Cook Book

Jack Falvey

from $40.00

The South American Gentleman's Companion (2 volume Set)

Jr. Baker, Charles H.

from $62.00

Amy Vanderbilt's Complete Cookbook

Amy Vanderbilt

from $68.00

Unmentionable Cuisine

Calvin W. Scwade

from $68.00

The Art of Fine Baking

Paula Peck

from $22.00

The White House Chef Cookbook

Rene Verdon

from $23.00

International Cuisine

The Art of Hungarian Cooking: Two Hundred and Twenty-two Favorite Recipes

Paula Pogany Bennett

from $23.00

Japanese Country Cookbook

Russ Rudinski

from $32.00

Puerto Rican Cookery

Carmen Aboy Valldejuli

from $23.00

A West African Cook Book

Ellen Gibson Wilson

from $40.00

The Art of Dutch Cooking : Or, How the Dutch Treat

C. Countes Van Limburg Stirum

from $28.00

Art of Greek Cookery

The Women of St. Paul's Greek Orthodox Church

from $28.00

Pei Mei's Chinese Cook Book Vol. 1

Fu Pei-Mei

from $51.00

The Home Book of Indonesian Cookery

Sri Owen

from $41.00

James Beard, Julia Child, and Helen Corbitt

Mastering the Art of French Cooking (two-volume set)

Julia Child; Simone Beck; Louisette Bertholle

from $90.00

Mastering the Art of French Cooking Volume 1 Only!

Julia Child

from $56.00

Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Volume 2: A Cookbook

Julia Child

from $40.00

The French Chef Cookbook: Drawings and photos by Paul Child

Julia Child

from $45.00

Helen Corbitt's Cookbook: by the Director of Neiman-Marcus Restaurants

Helen Corbitt

from $20.00

Helen Corbitt Cooks for Looks

Helen Corbitt

from $17.00

Mexico Through the Kitchen Window

Helen Corbitt

from $15.00

May 17, 2021

A Brief Look at the History of Cookbooks

May 17, 2021

A Brief Look at the History of Cookbooks

Brands Publications

New Cook Book: Celebrating the Promise

Better Homes and Gardens

from $23.00

Better Homes and Gardens Heritage Cook Book

Better Homes and Gardens

from $15.00

Betty Crocker

from $23.00

Betty Crocker's Cookbook for Boys & Girls

Betty Crocker

from $15.00

Betty Crocker's Picture Cook Book

Betty Crocker

from $45.00

The Sunset Cook Book: Food With a Gourmet Touch

Annabel Post

from $23.00

Farm Journal's Complete PIE cookbook: 700 Best Dessert and Main-Dish Pies in the Country

Farm Journal

from $21.00

Farm Journal Cooking For Company: More Than 900 Extra-Delicious Recipes and Menus

Food Editors of Farm Journal

from $15.00

The New Good Housekeeping Cookbook

from $56.00

Mixology / Drinks

Trader Vic's Bartender's Guide, Revised

Trader Vic

from $45.00

THE FINE ART OF MIXING DRINKS. New Revised Edition.

David A. Embury

from $62.00

The Frugal Gourmet, the Frugal Gourmet Cooks With Wine

Jeff Smith

from $28.00

Old Mr. Boston DeLuxe Official Bartender's Guide

Leo Cotton

from $28.00

Americana

Maryland's Way: The Hammond-Harwood House Cook Book

Mrs. Lewis R. Andrews

from $40.00

Midwestern Home Cookery

Louis Szathmary

from $17.00

Cooking Down East: Favorite Maine Recipes

Marjorie Standish

from $45.00

Betty Feezor's Carolina Recipes Volume II: Recipes, Meal Planning, Low Calorie Menus, Special Diet Recipes

Betty Feezor

from $45.00

Judie Geise The Northwest Kitchen A Seasonal Cookbook

Judi Geise

from $34.00

The Williamsburg Art of Cookery

Helen Duprey Bullock

from $28.00

Celebrity / Literary

Someone's in the Kitchen with Dinah

Dinah Shore

from $23.00

The Carter family favorites cookbook

Ceil Dyer

from $16.00

Dalí. Les dîners de Gala

Salvador Dalí

from $43.00

The ARTISTS' & WRITERS' COOKBOOK. Introduction by Alice B. Toklas.

from $68.00

The George Bernard Shaw Vegetarian Cook Book in Six Acts: Based on George Bernard Shaw's Favorite Recipes

Alice Laden

from $56.00

The Nero Wolfe Cookbook

Rex Stout

from $40.00

A TREASURY OF GREAT RECIPES, Famous Specialties of the World's Foremost Restaurants Adapted for the American Kitchen

Vincent Price

from $34.00

The Nancy Drew Cookbook: Clues to Good Cooking

Carolyn Keene

from $17.00

Robin Leach's Healthy Lifestyles Cookbook: 0menus and Recipes from the Rich, Famous, and Fascinating

Mardee Haidin Regan

from $28.00

Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse Cookbook

Walt Disney Company

from $33.00

Restaurants and Hotel Menus

The New Orleans Restaurant Cookbook

Deirdre Stanforth

from $21.00

Greens Cook Book: Extraordinary Vegetarian Cuisine from the Celebrated Restaurant

Edward Espe Brown

from $51.00

Birmingham's Best Restaurants Cookbook

Jon McClure

from $56.00

Antoine's Restaurant Since 1840 Cookbook

Roy F. Guste Jr.

from $23.00

The Moosewood Cookbook

Mollie Katzen

from $68.00

Broussard's Restaurant Cookbook (Old)

Gunter Preuß

from $56.00

Brennan's New Orleans Cookbook; With the Story of the Fabulous New Orleans Restaurant

Hermann Deutsch

from $23.00

Recipes from the Argonaut Inn, Revised Edition

Katharine S. Sinclair

from $45.00

Italian, French, Mexican, and Chinese Cuisine

Florence Lin's Complete Book of Chinese Noodles, Dumplings and Breads

Florence Lin

from $84.00

Jim Lee's Chinese Cookbook.

Jim Lee

from $16.00

Leone's Italian Cookbook

Gene Leone

from $16.00

Papa Rossi's secrets of Italian cooking by Dominic Rossi, Victor Bennett, Antonia Rossi (1969) Hardcover

from $17.00

Piret's: The George and Piret Munger Cookbook

George Munger

from $34.00

The Cuisines of Mexico

Diana Kennedy

from $20.00

Elena's Secrets of Mexican Cooking

Elena Zelayeta

from $17.00

Mexican Cookbook

Erna Ferguson

from $40.00

The Art Of Mexican Cooking

Georgine Sachs Salom

from $23.00

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