Normally I go nowhere the weekend after Thanksgiving, but this year I had a houseguest and we hit all the area hot spots for antiquing and used books. On Small Business Saturday we visited Rabelais Fine Books on Food and Drink in Biddeford Maine and then zipped over to DeWolfe and Wood Rare Books in more »
Cookbook Reviews
Another subset of my cookbook collection turns out to be books and pamphlets with sardine recipes. About half the readers just made a face. At some point towards the end of the 20th century, the idea of eating Sardines took on a distasteful image in the media and the mind of many Americans. I can’t more »
A subset of my cookbook collection are British cookbooks of a certain vintage. The UK post war economy grew much slower than the US economy, as rationing continued into the 50s, sugar and butter didn’t end until 53 and 54. Frugality in British cookbooks was a selling feature, whereas in post war American cookbooks it more »