Tower, Jeremiah. Jeremiah Tower’s New American Classics. Harpercollins, 1986. ISBN: 9780061818783. 233pp including general index and recipe index. Brown coated paper covered boards with gilt facsimile signature on front panel and gilt spine titles.  w/clean intact dust jacket. 4″x5″ white Ex libris bookplate on ffep from The First Boston Corporation with no name written in. As New in fine dust-jacket. Hardcover. The signature cookbook of one of America’s original celebrity chefs. Jeremiah Tower apprenticed with Alice Waters at Chez Panisse and went on to found several famous restaurants of his own including Stars. This cookbook is the best of traditional cooking with a Southwest American emphasis in flavorings but a solid classic cuisine basis. A great source of basic preparations that will become essential to your pantry as well as the more complicated but very reliable haute cuisine preparations. A classic. (#189)             $19.00

Stern, Michael; Stern, Jane. American Gourmet Classic Recipes, Deluxe Delights, Flamboyant Favorites, and Swank Company Food from the 50s and 60s. Harpercollins, 1991. ISBN: 9780060167103. 286pp, grey coated cloth w/silver stamped script title on front, same on spine. Owner’s sig/date on inside front cover. Slight bump on cover at top, dj is clean. Fine in fine dust-jacket. Hardcover. A highly unusual, interesting chronicling of American food tastes and habits of the 1950s and 1960s, the ‘gourmania’ craze and what prompted it, the culinary frenzy that finally petered out in the 1970s, the authors surveying the society and culture that spawned it all, presenting their views in a witty and astute style. Also contains countless actual recipes from these periods. Steak Diane is a truly great recipe worth trying. (#190) $9.00

Turgeon, Charlotte Snyder; Birmingham, Frederic Alexander. The Saturday Evening Post All-American Cookbook 500 All-American Recipes. Indianapolis: Curtis Pub Co, 1976. First edition. ISBN: 9780840740540. 320 pp. Pictorial board cover, no dj as issued, clean, tight, unmarked. Book. A nice mainstream cookbook and history book along with the art work, advertisements and cartoons from the Saturday Evening Post. Paintings by Norman Rockwell, JC Leyendecker, Steve Dohanos, Mead Schaeffer and others. 500 recipes (#191) $6.00

McBride, Mary Margaret. Harvest of American Cooking. New York: Putnams, 1957. First edition. 453PP, Red cloth , no dj, text block beginning to loosen from cover but still attached, ex-lib Abington, MA Public Library bookplate on inside cover, descriptive endflap of dj is tipped in to ffep. Fair. Hardcover. 1000 recipes from all 50 states. Good working kitchen copy and priced accordingly. Get cooking! (#192) $3.00

Taggart, Dan and Kathleen. Northwest Food & Wine. Seattle: Sasquatch Books, 1998. First printing. 284pp, some corner wear on cover, otherwise clean, bright, unmarked copy. Very Good +. Paperback. More than 120 recipes from casual to elegant. Grilled Pacific Salmon, Roast Quail. Wine matching with food, with profiles of local wineries. (#193) $4.50

Cleveland, Bess A. Alaskan Cookbook. Berkeley: Howell-North, 1960. Second edition. 164pp, grey cloth with red illustration on cover, pictorial endpapers with illustrations of animals and photos of animals, bumped corner of cover. Book is tight, clean, unmarked, bright paper. no dj. Near Fine. For homesteader or gourmet, game preperation, sourdough secrets, salmon derby recipes, frontier formulas for Traveler’s Coffee, Home Made Vinegar, more. Game cooking, Stuffings, Fish, Vegetables, Appetizers, Desserts, Typical Alaskan menus. Bear , caribou, moose, goat recipes! (#194) $5.00

Longstreet, Stephen and Ethel. A Salute to American Cooking. New York: Hawthorne Books, 1968. Book Club. 308pp, tan cloth with brown art on cover, dj is complete w/edge wear on spine and some stains on back. Book is tight, clean, bright, unmarked. Fine in good + dust-jacket. Hardcover. More than 500 recipes, from all parts of America, that truly reflect the ethnic and regional variety in American cooking, as well as its origins and traditions. (#195) $4.50

Brown, Cora, Rose and Bob. America Cooks: Favorite Recipes from 48 States. Garden City: Garden City Books, 1950. First edition. 986pp, blue cloth with white lettering on spine, shelf wear on edge of spine and corners, red stains on inside cover papers and on pages facing color photos, , ink notation (small) on half-title page, text block is tight, clean. Good. Hardcover.Recipes from the then current all 48 states. Creole Court Bouillon from Lousiana, N. Dakota Corn Bread, Indian Apple Pudding, Syracuse Snow Fritters, Temperance Punch, many many more recipes. (#199)    $8.00

Better Homes and Gardens. Heritage Cook Book. Meredith Corporation, 1976. First edition. 400pp, pictorial boards, slipcase has minor wear on edges, book is excellent, clean, umarked, hundreds of illustrations and photographs. Fine in good + dust-jacket. Hardcover. Featuring 705 recipes including colonial, ethnic, and modern favorites. Take a tour of America by sampling the foods that made history. Start at the beginning with the Indians or pick a favorite period or region to explore. Read the story behind the food events of the day. Then, prepare the actual dishes in your own kitchen. This is really two books in one. First, it’s a superb cook book filled with timeless American recipe favorites, and it is a unique history book – the story of America’s cuisine. The people, places, and anecdotes related to the recipes and the times make lively reading.” Oversize book requires extra postage. (#218)       $18.50