A sure-fire way to start a conversation, this cocktail Folio size book of stupendous photographs by Nathan Myhrvold and the team at The Cooking Lab will take you on a visual journey of raw food and food being cooked "really close up."
I personally attended this exhibit in San Jose, CA and this book is a knock-out production! The Photography of Modernist Cuisine. By Nathan Myhrvold. Bellevue, WA: The Cooking Lab, 2013. Heavy Folio size. 13.5" x 17". 300pp., with detailed description of the photographic process, list of contributors including Chris Hoover, Ryan Matthew Smith and Melissa Lehuta. Color pictorial bds., color pictorial endpapers.
Horse's Neck.“Use a Tom Collins glass. Peel a lemon in one long string and place into the above glass with one end of the rind hanging over the side. Place 3 pieces of ice in the glass. Fill the glass with domestic or imported Ginger Ale and serve.”
(Cocktails) Recipes. St. Paul Bartenders Union Local 287. St. Paul, MN: N.d., (ca. 1930's). 12mo. 36pp., recipes, charts e.g. "Revenue Received From Sale of Spirituous Liquor", ads for Schenley Products such as Old Quaker Bourbon and imports such as Noilly Prat Vermouth and Dewar's White Label Scotch. Green illustrated stapled wraps., illustration is of a Bartender smiling while shaking a cocktail shaker. Tiny hole present through top portion for convenient string, some stains, covers rubbed, else Good. Includes "Hints for Bartenders" being 10 rules for cleanliness, paying dues on time, proper dress attire of white shirt plus four-in-hand tie, etc.
Some highlights from our collection of books relating to food in Chinese culture include books by the wonderful Martin Yan:
Martin Yan's Chinatown Cooking.200 Traditional Recipes from 11 Chinatowns Around the World. 2002, 1st ed., inscribed; as always his recipes are so well-researched, with an extensive list of ingredients, or Chinese Pantry. Call to order (831) 251-9218 or visit www.cooksbookcase.com
We’ve got lots of books about the history of New Orleans Restaurants - influences from both urban and rural Creole, Cajun and traditional French cuisines. I always enjoy reading Alton Brown’s 2008 book Feasting on Asphalt: The River Run - stories & photos of where he scouts out great places to eat in Louisiana, with recipes included! The photo below is by Jean Claude Dhien of a typical Crawfish boil – 50 pounds at a time! Simply visit www.cooksbookcase.com
In her newest novel, The Care and Management of Lies, NY: Harper, 2014, Jacqueline Winspear creates a new character for her fans, Kezia Brissenden, who gradually learns how to cook!
She runs a large farm, learns to develop recipes, writes them down in mouth-watering detail in letters to her husband Tom, a soldier on the frontlines of World War One. He reads the letters aloud to his mates in the trenches, as she describes the addition of herbs in a sauce, the aroma of a succulent lamb stew, the crust for an apple pie etc. Kezia is an ordinary woman on the homefront, but the author typically brings the young woman's personal troubles, and her farm kitchen to life. Ms. Winspear is the author of the fabulously popular Maisie Dobbs mysteries.
At each chapter heading there is a brief quote from Florence B. Jack’s The Woman’s Book: Contains Everything a Woman Ought to Know, published in 1911. It is a wedding present from Kezia’s best friend Thea (Tom’s sister) and is one of those single volumes containing a multitude of suggestions for household duties, regularity of cleaning rooms, cooking, the larder, menu planning, and general feminine decorum.
the Cook’s Bookcase has for sale many similar one-volume Woman’s Books for sale, including Mrs. Beeton’s Book of Household Management, The White House Cookbook, The Settlement Book, Woman’s Home Companion’s Household Book etc. Call for more info (831) 251-9218
