Catering for Special Occasions with Menus and Recipes
by FARMER, Fannie Merritt
- Used
- Fine
- Condition
- Fine/very good
- Seller
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Thomaston, Maine, United States
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About This Item
Philadelphia: David McKay, Publisher, 1911. Cloth. Fine/very good. Albert D. BLASHFIELD, decorations. [J.C. LEYENDECKER, illustrated binding onlay]. Octavo; viii, 240pp; dark green basket-weave cloth with stamped white lettering to front and gilt-stamped spine, color illustration onlay to front board of a putti or Kewpie about to carve a turkey; illustrated endpapers; 7 half-tone photographic illustrations; ownership in neat ink to free front endpapers; color pictorial dust jacket, lightly chipped and soiled; fine in very good minus dj. First edition. Famed cookbook author, Fannie Farmer's book dedicated to celebrating the holidays and special occasions with festive food and menus. Farmer (1857-1915) was the daughter of a printer and editor, and expected to complete higher education, but at the age of 16 she suffered a stroke which left her bedridden and in her parent's care for years. During a slow recovery she started cooking and turned her mother's house into a boarding house known for high quality. During her recovery, she attended Boston Cooking School where she became first an assistant and later principal of the school.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Sandra L Hoekstra Bookseller (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1195
- Title
- Catering for Special Occasions with Menus and Recipes
- Author
- FARMER, Fannie Merritt
- Illustrator
- Albert D. BLASHFIELD, decorations
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- David McKay, Publisher
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- 1911
- Keywords
- Cookery, Entertaining, Holidays
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Sandra L Hoekstra Bookseller
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Thomaston, Maine
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