A well-researched guide for cookbook collectors, loaded with histories, dates, sizes, and values. Hundreds of examples of cookbooks and booklets from many years are photographed in full color and black and white. 2002 values. AUTHORBIO: Bob Allen has been a lifetime collector of cookbooks, anda longstanding active member of the Cookbook Collectors Club of America for many years. His book, A Guide to Collecting Cookbooks, has seen many updated reprintings. His book includes six different collections and years of research. REVIEW: This reference guide contains thousands of listings and values for every type of cookbook imaginable, and includes biographies on culinary experts, color photographs, and chapters on the most popular cookbooks.
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...This Would Be It! Colonel Allen's enthusiasm for the subject led him to produce what is probably the definitive work in the field of collecting cookbooks. This book sweeps up both the new and the experienced collector into the fascinating world of vintage cookbooks and their value as a source of historical information. The only drawback I found was the grouping of books in categories for the price guide section, as I found myself thumbing through many places to locate a particular cookbook. However, it contains an exhaustive listing, and once you get used to it, the layout is only a minor annoyance. Along with Dickinson's and Barile's books on the subject, it is fast becoming dog-eared from daily use!
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Currently I have 4 price guides for cookbooks and although the background information given on the various companies in this book is interesting, it is very difficult to locate a specific book in here because of the way the listings are grouped. If you already have a good price guide, you may find this one fills in a few gaps but if you just have books you want to look up, I'd get something different. Unlike some of the other price guides, there is no index at the back to help with your search. Also, the books are listed chronologically in each grouping rather than listed alphabetically by company or title. There is a chapter for soft-cover cookbooks and leaflets but also one for chocolate, one for flour, one for baking powder, one for Betty Crocker etc. I'm not sorry I bought it, but if I could only keep one, this wouldn't be it.
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A cookbook can be many different things, depending on its author and its purpose. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
following lists the cookbooks, advertising cookbooks, recipe publications, following recipe book, ice cream powder, following cookbooks, phosphate baking powder, denotes titles, following lists the publications, publishing cookbooks, cover spiral, recipe booklets, card series, cook book, copyright edition, soft cover, tested recipes, flavoring extracts, pancake flour, home economist, hard cover, famous recipes, photo section Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Betty Crocker, Ball Blue Book, Fannie Merritt Farmer, Standard Brands, Good Housekeeping, Better Homes, Marion Harland, Best Foods, United States, General Mills, Women's Circle Home Cooking, Woman's Day, San Francisco, Ida Bailey Allen, Maria Parloa, Choice Recipes, General Foods Corp, Alice Bradley, Boston Cooking School, Lily Haxworth Wallace, Ransom's Family Receipt Book, Ann Pillsbury, Walter Baker, New England New!
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A cookbook can be many different things, depending on its author and its purpose. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
following lists the cookbooks, advertising cookbooks, recipe publications, following recipe book, ice cream powder, following cookbooks, phosphate baking powder, denotes titles, following lists the publications, publishing cookbooks, cover spiral, recipe booklets, card series, cook book, copyright edition, soft cover, tested recipes, flavoring extracts, pancake flour, home economist, hard cover, famous recipes, photo section Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Betty Crocker, Ball Blue Book, Fannie Merritt Farmer, Standard Brands, Good Housekeeping, Better Homes, Marion Harland, Best Foods, United States, General Mills, Women's Circle Home Cooking, Woman's Day, San Francisco, Ida Bailey Allen, Maria Parloa, Choice Recipes, General Foods Corp, Alice Bradley, Boston Cooking School, Lily Haxworth Wallace, Ransom's Family Receipt Book, Ann Pillsbury, Walter Baker, New England New!
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