Cookery from Tennyson Williams, Books and Fine Art

New York: Worcester Salt Company, 1910. 32 pages.  Written by the editor of the Boston Cooking School Magazine. Precedes a more common 1931 Worcester cook book.  Harvard University Library suggests a publication date circa 1910, but an ad for iodized salt on the rear cover suggests post-1924, the date generally accepted as the first use of iodized salt… Read more about this item

New York, Savannah, New Orleans, Chicago: Southern Cotton Oil Trading Company, 1922. 48 pages.  First edition.  A cook book dedicated to the idea that cooking with the Snowdrift brand of vegetable based shortening (we now call this hydrogenated vegetable oil!) is desirable because it is pure, wholesome, ideal for frying, economical, and convenient--and it improves the flavor of everything!  The… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: The Enterprise Manufacturing Co. Of Pa., 1898. 79, (1) pages.  Second edition.   An interesting advertising cook book in that the pictorial ads for Enterprise appear occasionally among the recipes rather than all in one section--ads for Enterprise coffee mills, food choppers, meat choppers, cherry stoners, ice shredders, raisin and grape seeders, and (of course) sad irons.  The book is… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: Printed for B. Davies and T. Stephens, 1795. xxxvi, 377 pages. First American edition. The first printing of this translation of selections from the French edition. The title of the book continues: "and containing an account of the various methods of engraving on brass, copper and steel. Of the composition of metals. -- of varnishes. Of… Read more about this item