America Cooks: Favorite Recipes from 48 States by The Browns Garden City Hardcover Cookbook
$34.99
America Cooks: Favorite Recipes from 48 States by The Browns, Cora, Rose, and Bob, is a substantial Garden City Books hardcover cookbook with 986 pages of regional American recipes.
The blue cloth binding is solid and the pages are clean and easy to read. The boards and spine show light rubbing, corner wear, surface marks, and age toning along the page edges.
Recipes are arranged by state, with sections devoted to regional foods and cooking traditions from across the 48 states represented in the book. Color illustrations and black and white material appear throughout, along with full color illustrated endpapers.
Details
- Item: Vintage regional American cookbook
- Title: America Cooks: Favorite Recipes from 48 States
- Author: The Browns, Cora, Rose, and Bob
- Illustrator: Not confirmed from photos
- Publisher: Garden City Books, Garden City, New York
- Publication Year: 1940. Copyright page states MCMXL, 1940.
- Edition and Printing: Not confirmed from photos
- Format and Binding: Blue cloth hardcover
- Dust Jacket: No dust jacket present in photos
- Pages: 986
- Genre: Regional American cooking
- Language: English
- ISBN: Not confirmed from photos
- Dimensions: 8 1/4 x 5 3/4 x 2 inches
Positives
- Graded Good: This copy is complete and usable, with a solid cover and clean readable pages.
- The 986 pages give this book the feel of a working kitchen reference rather than a slim recipe booklet. The size leaves room for a wide range of state by state recipes.
- The contents are organized by state, with entries visible for Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, and Florida before continuing through the country.
- The illustrated endpapers add full color food photography, while the interior also includes black and white material alongside the recipes.
Issues / Wear
- The blue cloth boards show light surface rubbing, small marks, and wear at the corners and edges.
- The spine shows rubbing and wear at the ends, with age and handling visible around the paper labels.
- The page edges are noticeably age toned.
- The interior pages show general age toning while remaining clean and readable.
This 986 page Garden City Books hardcover arranges its recipes state by state, and it belongs on a shelf for readers who enjoy regional American cooking and food history. If it's the right copy for you, it's ready to come home.
Book Details
- Publisher: Garden City Books, Garden City, New York
- Publication Year: 1940
- Edition and Printing: Not confirmed from photos
- Format and Binding: Blue cloth hardcover
- Pages: 986
Condition Grade: Good
- Near Fine: Close to new. Any flaw is small and named above.
- Very Good: Light use. Every flaw is named above, and none of them get in the way of reading or display.
- Good: Complete and usable, with clear signs of use. Every flaw is named above.
- Fair: Heavy wear or damage, named above. A reading or working copy, not a display piece.
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