This extraordinary collection, a trove of enchanting designs, appealing colors, and forgotten motifs that stir the imagination, features an unprecedented assortment of ephemera, or paper collectibles, related to food. It includes images of postcards, match covers, menus, labels, posters, brochures, valentines, packaging, advertisements, and other materials from nineteenth- and twentieth-century America. Internationally acclaimed food historian William Woys Weaver takes us on a lively tour through this dazzling collection in which each piece tells a new story about food and the past. Packed with fascinating history, the volume is the first serious attempt to organize culinary ephemera into categories, making it useful for food lovers, collectors, designers, and curators alike. Much more than a catalog, Culinary Ephemera follows this paper trail to broader themes in American social history such as diet and health, alcoholic beverages, and Americans abroad. It is a collection that, as Weaver notes, will "transport us into the vicarious worlds of dinners past, brushing elbows with the reality of another time, another place, another human condition."
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"A food lover's print version of the Antiques Roadshow. . . Perfect for the foodie collector and history buff."--Epicurious.com
" The 352 color plates, accompanied by informed, diverting text [tell] us much about who we've been as well as what we've eaten . . . and drunk."--Wall Street Journal
"What makes this book special is Weaver's careful, engaging contextualization of each piece, giving the reader a comprehensive understanding of how the ephemera fit into everyday life." STARRED REVIEW--Library Journal
"Every page has at least two or three stories you'll want to repeat over a good meal."--John Mariani's Virtual Gourmet
"The artwork . . . . is a wonder to behold, filled with colorful examples of culinary imagination. The text is as fascinating as the pictures."--Minneapolis Star Tribune
" The 352 color plates, accompanied by informed, diverting text [tell] us much about who we've been as well as what we've eaten . . . and drunk."--Wall Street Journal
"What makes this book special is Weaver's careful, engaging contextualization of each piece, giving the reader a comprehensive understanding of how the ephemera fit into everyday life." STARRED REVIEW--Library Journal
"Every page has at least two or three stories you'll want to repeat over a good meal."--John Mariani's Virtual Gourmet
"The artwork . . . . is a wonder to behold, filled with colorful examples of culinary imagination. The text is as fascinating as the pictures."--Minneapolis Star Tribune
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"William Woys Weaver's personal collection of food-and-drink ephemera is a marvel of culinary Americana, and we have the chance here to visit it with Weaver himself as our guide. It's impossible to stop turning the pages of this dazzling book. Few works in any genre have captured so precisely and memorably the interplay of food, design, technology, business and popular culture. Food-lovers, professional and otherwise, will find that every one of these provocative images inspires new questions, fresh ideas and enormous delight."--Laura Shapiro, author of Perfection Salad: Women and Cooking at the Turn of the Century
"This wonderful new book is not to be missed by collectors, gourmets, or anyone nostalgic for the dishes grandma used to make!" --Arthur H. Groten, President of the Ephemera Society of America, www.ephemerasociety.org
"This wonderful new book is not to be missed by collectors, gourmets, or anyone nostalgic for the dishes grandma used to make!" --Arthur H. Groten, President of the Ephemera Society of America, www.ephemerasociety.org
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I have been collecting cookbooks and culinary ephemmera for many years. What a fabulous book! It is like reading a child's book.
The presentation and the illustrations are amazing. The content is well documented and easy to read. This book helped me understand the birth and development through the years of culinary ephemera and created new fields of interest. Thank you for this great gift!
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