The Epicurean1894
Delmonico's gives away every secret of America's grandest restaurant.
The Cookbooks, Shelf by Shelf
99 cookbooks in this collection — 90 here now, another 9 coming soon — shelved the way a good bookshop would do it. The book's cover is the door; you are invited to walk in anywhere.
Grand Hotels & Great Chefs (7 books)·From America's Kitchens (9 books)·Around the World (8 books)·The Great Kitchen References (7 books)·The Everyday Home Cookbooks (15 books)·Learning the Kitchen (4 books)·Menus & Entertaining (9 books)·Salads, Sandwiches & Summer (6 books)·Thrift & Ingenuity (8 books)·The Bakery & the Pantry (8 books)·The Soda Fountain & the Cellar (4 books)·From the Makers (14 books)
Grand Hotels & Great Chefs
Delmonico's, the Waldorf, and the professionals who fed the Gilded Age.
The Cook Book by “Oscar” of the Waldorf1896
Three thousand recipes from the Waldorf's famous maître d'hôtel.
The International Cook Book1906
Delmonico's Filippini ranges the kitchens of the world.
Kettner's Book of the Table1877
The wittiest food book of the Victorian age, A to Z.
Celebrated Actor-Folks' Cookeries1908
Broadway's biggest stars share their own recipes.
High-Class Cookery Recipes
Fancy cookery, taught by professionals.
The Pleasures of the Table
A history of dining and the art of good living.
From America's Kitchens
Church suppers, community cookbooks and the regional table.
Buckeye Cookery1877
The great Ohio church cookbook that fed the Midwest.
Housekeeping in Old Virginia1879
Seventeen hundred signed recipes from 250 Virginia housewives.
Cooking in Old Créole Days1904
Gumbo, café brûlot and the old New Orleans kitchen.
The Catskill Cook Book1905
What the Catskills served its summer boarders.
Bohemian San Francisco1914
Where San Francisco ate, before and after the earthquake.
The Dixie Cook Book
The South's home cooking, gathered into one volume.
The Home Cook Book
Tried receipts from the ladies of the town.
Libertyville Presbyterian Cook Book
A congregation's covered-dish favorites, collected for the cause.
Philathea Cook Book
A Bible class's church-supper recipes.
Around the World
Other countries' kitchens, visited and brought home.
365 Dishes of All Nations1908
A dish for every day of the year, from every corner of the map.
With a Saucepan Over the Sea1902
Quaint recipes carried home from other countries' kitchens.
The Belgian Cook Book1915
Gathered from Belgian refugees in 1915 and sold for their relief.
The British Cookery Book
The cooking of Britain, joint by joint.
The Cookery Book of Lady Clark of Tillypronie1909
A Scottish country house's lifetime of recipes.
The Italian Cook Book
The real cooking of Italy, translated for America.
Simple Italian Cookery
Italian cooking made plain for American kitchens.
The Cook's Decameron
Ten days of table talk, with two hundred Italian recipes.
The Great Kitchen References
Dictionaries, encyclopedias and the books that tried to hold everything.
Mackenzie’s Ten Thousand Receipts1829
Ten thousand receipts for everything, cookery to gilding.
Cassell’s New Dictionary of Cookery1912
The vast Edwardian kitchen dictionary, Aberdeen Crullas to Zwiebach.
Mrs. Beeton's All About Cookery1907
The great Mrs. Beeton, boiled down for the working kitchen.
The Grocer's Encyclopedia1911
Everything a grocer could sell in 1911, gloriously illustrated.
The Encyclopedia of Food And Beverages
Every food and beverage, encyclopedically arranged.
Consolidated Library of Modern Cooking and Household Recipes
A whole library of modern cooking in one set.
The Book of a Thousand Recipes
A thousand menus, balanced meal by meal through the year.
The Everyday Home Cookbooks
The all-purpose books a family cooked from, morning to night.
The 20th Century Home Cook Book1906
The new century's kitchen, as promised to the American housewife.
Twentieth Century Cook Book
Modern cookery for the new century's kitchen.
Good Things to Eat and How to Prepare Them
Good things to eat, and exactly how to prepare them.
Cook Book
Good Housekeeping's tested recipes for the home table.
Mrs. W.H. Wilson's New Cook Book
Mrs. Wilson's new collection for the home kitchen.
New Delineator Recipes
Recipes from the Delineator magazine's kitchens.
The Butterick Cook Book
Tested recipes from the Butterick publishing house.
The Butterick Book of Recipes and Household Helps
Recipes and household helps from the pattern-makers.
The Modern Method of Preparing Delightful Foods
Delightful foods, prepared the modern way.
Reliable Recipes
Recipes vouched for — tried, tested and true.
My Favorite Recipes
One cook's personal favorites, written down at last.
Mrs. Fryer's Loose Leaf Cook Book
A cookbook designed to grow, page by page.
Household Discoveries and Mrs. Curtis's Cook Book
A thousand household discoveries, plus a full cookbook.
How to Cook Vegetables
The vegetable, finally given its due.
Unknown - Old Receipts Book
Household receipts of 1831 — cookery, dyes, stains and cures.
Learning the Kitchen
Cooking school, first kitchens and lessons for the young.
The Boston Cooking School Cookbook1896
Fannie Farmer teaches America to measure level.
Bride's Cookbook
A first kitchen's complete instruction manual.
Six Little Cooks
Aunt Jane teaches six children to cook, lesson by lesson.
Student's Manual in Household Arts
Classroom lessons in the household arts.
Menus & Entertaining
What to serve, when company is coming.
52 Sunday Dinners1913
One grand dinner for every Sunday of the year, soup to dessert.
A Calendar of Dinners
A dinner planned for every day of the year.
Menus Made Easy
What to serve, and how to write the menu.
Entertaining Made Easy
Parties, showers and suppers without the panic.
For Luncheon and Supper Guests
Little dishes for company at noon and night.
Breakfast Dessert Supper
Three lighter meals, minus the heavy dinner.
The Something-Different Dish
For the cook stuck in a rut: something different.
Modernistic Recipe-Menu Book
A cooking school's modern menus for the homemaker.
Carving and Serving (Lincoln)
How to carve the roast and serve it right.
Salads, Sandwiches & Summer
Light fare for warm days and chafing-dish evenings.
Hot Weather Dishes
What to serve when the kitchen is sweltering.
Cook and Be Cool
Summer meals that keep the cook out of the heat.
The Up-to-Date Sandwich Book
Four hundred ways to build a sandwich.
Salads, Sandwiches and Chafing Dish Dainties
Dainties for the chafing dish, the salad bowl and the sandwich plate.
Outdoor Cooking
Campfires, picnics and cooking in the open air.
Ninety-Nine Salads
Ninety-nine salads, one for nearly every occasion.
Thrift & Ingenuity
Hard times, small kitchens and clever ways around both.
Meatless Cookery1918
Wartime cooking without meat, in earnest.
Low Cost Recipes
Stretching the food dollar, recipe by recipe.
The Cook Book of Left-Overs
Yesterday's dinner, transformed for today.
Choice Recipes and How to Operate a Fireless Cookstove
Cooking without fire — the fireless cookstove explained.
Kitchenette Cookery
Real meals from an apartment-sized kitchen.
How to Cook in Casserole Dishes
One dish, one oven: the casserole method.
Meals Medicinal
Food as physic: eating your way to health.
Cooking for Two
A small kitchen and two plates, done well.
The Bakery & the Pantry
Bread, sweets and putting the harvest up.
Canning, Preserving and Jelly Making1914
Turning summer's harvest into a winter's pantry.
Bakers Weekly Recipes
Trade recipes from the professional baker's weekly.
The Bread & Biscuit Baker's And Sugar Boiler's Assistant
Trade secrets of the bread baker and sugar boiler.
Fruit Recipes
An orchard's worth of ways to use fruit.
Popcorn for the Home
Popcorn beyond the popper: balls, candies and more.
Candy Making at Home
Fudge, fondant and taffy from the home kitchen.
The Candy Cook Book
A full course in making candy at home.
The American Pastry Cook
Trade secrets of the pastry counter.
The Soda Fountain & the Cellar
What America drank — with the bar open or closed.
The American Soda Book
The soda fountain's complete formula book.
The Dispenser's Formulary or Soda Water Guide
Thousands of formulas for the soda-water man.
On Uncle Sam's Water Wagon
Five hundred soft drinks for a dry America.
The French Wine and Liquor Manufacturer
The cellar-master's guide to wines and liquors.
From the Makers
The brands sold the flour — and gave the cookbook away.
Arm and Hammer Valuable Recipes
Baking-soda wisdom from the Arm & Hammer company.
A New Snowdrift Cook Book
Recipes built around Snowdrift shortening, from the maker.
Fleischmann's Recipes
Yeast-raised breads and rolls from Fleischmann's.
Five Roses Cook Book
Canada's flour-bag classic, from two thousand home cooks.
The Royal Cook Book
Light, sweet baking from Royal Baking Powder.
New Royal Cook Book
Baking-powder baking from the Royal company.
The Story of Crisco1913
The shortening that changed American baking, told by its maker.
The Metropolitan Cook Book
The little insurance-company cookbook found in a million homes.
Dromedary Recipe Book1920
Dates in everything, from the Dromedary brand.
Certo Recipes
Jams and jellies that set every time.
Pompeian Salad Recipes
Salads dressed with Pompeian olive oil.
Lowney's Cook Book
From the Lowney chocolate works: candy and cookery.
Gold Medal Flour Cook Book
The famous flour-sack cookbook, from the mills.
Choice Recipes (Walter Baker & Co.)
Chocolate and cocoa recipes from the Baker's works at Dorchester.