Publishers: Knopf (USA)
Publication date: 1990

Since its first appearance in 1973, Marcella Hazan's The Classic Italian Cook Book has earned a unique place as the single most exciting and valuable volume on Italian cuisine to have been published in this country. The editor of Travel & Leisure wrote that Marcella Hazan "has done for Italian food what Julia Child and Simone Beck did for French."

Marcella Hazan introduces a wide variety of unusual new regional dishes, flavoured with her own comments about what constitutes the distinctive character of each one. Includes many ideas for menu suggestions and more than 250 wonderful recipes.

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Publishers: Ten Speed Press (USA)
Publication date: 1990
Binding: Paperback
Edition: First

The Streamliner is a homey little cafe that's been praised by food critics from Los Angeles to New York to Germany. You can join the happy crowd one of two ways: take the Winslow Ferry to Bainbridge Island, head up the hill, turn left at the stoplight, and pull up to the first business you see. That'll be the Streamliner. Or, you can create the diner's down-home gourmet feeling in your very own kitchen with the hundred-plus recipes in this book.

This is diner food as you've never had it before—using whole-some, economical, readily available ingredients to create imaginative, delicious meals. Yes, you can have such stand-bys as Friday Meatloaf or Dad's Chicken Pot Pie, but you might also want to try Hunter's Stew over Polenta, Artichoke Heart-Brie Turnovers, or Cream of Wild Mushroom Soup and, if you've brought a hearty appetite to the table, top it all off with a big slice of Julie’s Chocolate Caramel Pie.

The Streamliner Diner Cookbook collects all the best recipes from this unique restaurant for muffins, breads, coffee cakes, soups, salads, main dishes, pies, cakes, and much, much more.

This is down-home gone downtown, homestyle food like Mom never made it. And it sure is good.

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Publishers: Nicholas Kaye
Publication date: 1962
Edition: First

A charming cookbook made up of twelve menus to help the would-be cook short on time to produce elaborate meals.

Illustrations by Caroline Wood

Chipping to boards. Pages lightly foxed

Publishers: Peter Pauper Press (USA)
Publication date: 1963
Edition: First

From the highly collectible American publishers Peter Pauper Press comes Simple Continental Cookery

Compiled by Edna Beilenson, illustrated by Ruth McCrea

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Damage to dust jacket. Pages lightly foxed

Publishers: Michael Joesph
Publication date: 1984
Edition: First (UK)

Beard calls this ‘a book of good times to have with pasta.’ He starts by explaining step-by-step how to make the perfect fresh pasta, before moving on to the recipes: soups, fish pasta, meats pastas, egg and cheese, plus more.

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Publishers: Michael Joesph
Publication date: 1976

Here is the acknowledged doyen of American cookery on his favourite subject — bread — sharing his knowledge, his prejudices, his delights. James Beard is so persuasive about the simple and joyous art of breadmaking that once you start with this book and plunge your hands in the dough, you will become a confirmed breadmaker for life.

Illustrated throughout with drawings done as Beard went through the process of breadmaking, this book is a must for everyone to whom homemade bread is a delight, an economic necessity, or a hitherto unattainable dream of fresh crusty bread emerging from your own oven.

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Publishers: Random House (USA)
Publication date: 1968

A cookbook of cakes, cookies, candies, and confections from all the countries that celebrate Christmas

Though technically labelled Christmas-related it is, in fact, just a charming cookbook stuffed with well-known sugary treats, from gingerbreads and fruit cakes, to cookies, pies, tarts, doughnuts, and more.

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Publishers: Arlington Books
Publication date: 1961

Wonderful Ways with Chicken will ‘enable and encourage housewives and all who cook to prepare their favourite food in many different ways.’ This succulent collection is divided into five sections — traditional dishes, cold dishes for all seasons, what to do with left-overs, chicken for invalids, and a grand finale of the world’s best recipes — a simple but authentic guide for even the most timid cook.

Illustrations by John Cook

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Publishers: Wezäta Förlag
Publication date: 1961

Here — at last — is the true masterpiece of books on Swedish foods. The delights and mysteries of the traditional smörgåsbord are clearly set forth with full directions and photographs, with dozens of unusual, authentic recipes for dishes and snacks, hot and cold, which have made the Swedish smörgåsbord world-famous.

Beautifully designed, a quiet design classic.

Chipping to dust jacket. Pages lightly foxed

Publishers: Mary Ford Cake Artistry Centre Ltd
Publication date: 1982

101 Cake Designs offers step-by-step instructions for decorating cakes for weddings, holidays, birthdays, anniversaries, and other occasions, and shows how to work with marzipan, sugar paste, and frostings.

Chipping to dust jacket. Page creasing

Publication date: 1989
Binding: Spiral bound

Variety is one of Connecticut's most valuable spices. Throughout its history, the Nutmeg State has enjoyed a rich and diversified cultural heritage. Today, more than sixty separate ethnic groups provide our state with a broad and interesting personality.

Connecticut Cooks reflects that personality. Inside you will find a medley of recipes from Eierkuchen, traditional German pancakes, to a distinctive Seafood Chardonnay from one of Connecticut's five vineyards.

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Publishers: Pitman
Publication date: 1977

One-pot cookery conserves time, fuel and fuss, while often preserving the flavor and nutritional value of foods. The tradition of one-pot cooking is probably as old as man's first efforts to cook his food and embraces most of the world's cuisines.

This book offers one-pot recipes from many countries, prepared in a number of ways. Specialised cookware like fondue pots, chafing dishes, omelet pans and soufflé dishes can give variety to one-pot cookery, and recipes are given for their use. But even more useful are the commonplace basics of the batterie de cuisine: the all-purpose casserole, saucepan, soup pot and roasting tin.

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Publishers: Holt, Rinehart and Winston (USA)
Publication date: 1979
Edition: First

Whether there’s a trace of its juice in a sauce, or a sprinkling of zest on top of a creamy dessert, the lemon is a spectacular addition to a myriad of foods. In this enticing cookbook there are 118 recipes, from appetizers to desserts, celebrating the lemon’s inimitable flavour.

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Publishers: Viking (USA)
Publication date: 1995
Edition: First

Like the best writers who have taken food as their subject, Molly O’Neill has a profound understanding of human appetite. And these smart, eloquent essays, laced with more than two hundred recipes, remind us that anticipation — whether for the morels from Michigan’s National Mushroom Festival, or for a cherry held by the stem and nibbled with a “singularly selfish satisfaction” — lends food much of its savour.

From innovative techniques such as oven-drying summer produce or using vegetables broths to lighten dressings, to homey recipes for one-pot dinners and rustic tarts, A Well-Seasoned Appetite illustrates Molly O’Neill’s conviction that “cooking should nourish life at more than the cellular level.” With humour and passion, she celebrates the fact that eating, like most intimate acts performed by human beings, has as much to do with the mind and spirit as with the body.

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Publishers: Wezäta Förlag (Sweden)
Publication date: 1960

Here is your chance to do the world famous Swedish Smörgåsbord yourself, following the detailed and clear kitchen-tested recipes in this book. Its many mouth-watering illustrations show you how to arrange both the dishes and your table in an attractive, different, and authentic way.

In addition to the Smörgåsbord you get many other recipes, covering the very highlights of Swedish cooking and baking. Whenever you want a change from everyday food or a different flavour and appearance on your party buffet, you can rely upon Swedish Cooking at its Best.

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Publishers: Clifton Books
Publication date: 1969
Edition: First

Philip Harben, a television chef from the 1960s, shows that it is possible to construct a good meal quickly. Suppose, Philip Harben writes, you have been out to the theatre and did not get time for a meal before you left.You want something quick because you are hungry; you want something tasty because you are tired, and you want something simple because you are in no mood for slow simmering and fine chopping. No, you want results and you want them now.

Quickly Quickly is divided into five chapters, ranging from Cooking Quickly with no Previous Preparation, to Dishes Which Can be Left to Cook by Themselves, and Cooking Under Difficulties: On a Small Boat, In a Caravan, Camping, etc.

Age-related wear to boards. Pages lightly foxed

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Publication date: 1988
Binding: Spiral bound

An eclectic mix of Danish, German, Mexican, Icelandic, and Alaskan dishes, reflecting on the author’s travels and upbringing

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Light wear to boards. Pages lightly foxed.

Publishers: Faber & Faber
Publication date: 1974
Binding: Paperback

A guide to Chinese vegetable and vegetarian cooking, with straightforward instructions for methods such as stir-frying, steaming, stewing and hot-marinading, and recipes for egg, noodle and tofu dishes, soups, and both hot and cold salads by renowned British-Chinese food writer, Kenneth Lo.

Rare and hard to find this edition

Light wear to boards. Pages lightly foxed