Books About Food

8° (mm 170x108); pp. 114, 2 tavole calcografiche fuori testo ripiegate. Al frontespizio, marca tipografica (freccia con serpente. Motto: "Maturandum"). Le incisioni recano la sottoscrizione: "Ronzoni dis., A. Guelmi incise". Carta decorata antica. Bell'esemplare.Editio princeps.The 'Friday Gnoccolaro' (or 'Friday gnoccolàr', 'Friday of Gnocchi' or 'Gnoccolare') is an ancient popular festival born in Verona in the sixteenth century and handed down to the present day.The festival originates from popular uprising against the bakers, which took place in Verona in 1531 following a terrible famine, caused by a sudden flood of the Adige and aggravated by the sack of German troops who crossed the Verona area, after the Peace of Cambrai.To appease the population in revolt, some virtuous citizens were elected, including the doctor Tommaso da Vico, to feed the people with the proceeds from duties on chestnuts and olives. This episode took the name of 'gnoccolare' and took place on the last Friday of Carnival,… Read More

Thomas D. Cutler, 1920. Hardcover. Good. 12 bound issues of The Ice cream Journal, January - December, 1920. The official organ of many ice cream trade associations. Includes numerous technical articles, equipment reviews, formulae, processes, machinery reviews, photos, illustrated ads and more. Sample articles include: Interior Finish of Ice Storages, The Examination of Gelatine, Increasing Solids Other Than Fats in Ice Cream, Proportioning Ice Cream Batches, Sugar as a Stimulant, The Manufacture of Pure Food Gelatine, Ice Storage House Construction and Operation, Corn Sugar and Corn Syrup for Better Ice Cream, The Manufacture of Butter, Standards for Sweetened Condensed Milk, The Laboratory in the Ice Cream Plant, Ice Cream Formulas for the Factory, The Layout of an Ice Cream Plant, An Epidemic of Ropy Milk, Honey in Ice Cream, Formulas Using Sweetened Condensed Milk, Formula Using Butterfat Milk Powder, New Sealright Can Filler, What We Have Learned in Ten Years About Hardening Rooms and… Read More

[Seattle, Washington]:: [Lawton Press],, 2017.. Edition of 5. 8.75" x 6" x 1.75"; 74 pages including 38 photographs and 21 vellum additions. Accordion structure. Housed in clamshell box. Printing by A & A Printing. Book binding by Andrea Kohler. Bound in illustrated hard covers. Design and photography by Nancy Edelstein. Numbered. Artist statement: "Nancy Edelstein is a fine art photographer and book maker whose work explores memory and the objects that preserve it. Friday Night Dinners brings together visual and story telling components to reveal the power of forgotten memories held in her grandmother's porcelain dishes. This project is the culmination of her unique photographic process, resulting in fine art digital prints and a handmade artist book, honoring those layered images with personal stories of a lost family tradition. "'Contained within are printed translucent vellum pages, enhancing and obscuring the images beneath. As each vellum page is… Read More

Thomas D. Cutler, 1925. Hardcover. Good. 12 bound issues of The Ice cream Journal, January - December, 1925. The official organ of many ice cream trade associations. Includes numerous technical articles, equipment reviews, formulae, processes, machinery reviews, photos, illustrated ads and more. Sample articles include: Refrigerated Cabinet or Fountain? The Importance of Non-Fat Milk Solids, Texture: What Determines It and How? Advantages and Disadvantages of the Iceless Cabinet, The Ice Cream Driver as a Chauffeur, How Mix Ingredients Affect Freezing, Proportioning Mixes by Arithmetic, Which Is It? Viscosity or Plasticity, Germany Starts an Ice Cream Industry, Unsolved Problems of Body and Texture, A Study of the Freezing Point, Facts and Figures in Sherbets and Ices, Material Handling in the Hydrox Plant, Turning Skim Milk into Horse-Power, Using Egg Yolk in Plain Ice Cream Making Nesselrode Pudding, Two “Typical” Mixes, The Manufacture of Ice Cream: A Concise… Read More

Thomas D. Cutler, 1927. Hardcover. Good. 12 bound issues of The Ice cream Journal, January - December, 1927. The official organ of many ice cream trade associations. Includes numerous technical articles, equipment reviews, formulae, processes, machinery reviews, photos, illustrated ads and more. Sample articles include: Solidified Carbon Dioxide, Can Density Be Controlled? Gelatine and Mix Viscosity, How Corn Sugar in an Ice Cream Mix Affects the Hardening Process, An All-Purpose Batch Method, How Much Sugar? What Kind? Preventing Sherbet Defects, Profits in Window Display, Dehydrating Yolk in America, Making Window Displays Pay, Recipes for Fancy Ice Cream, What Factors Affect Whip, How to Make Imitation Forms and The Butter and Dry Skim Mix. Tight, clean ex-library copy with minimal shelf wear, 4" x 2" North Dakota Agricultural College library label to front pastedown and NDAL stamps to edges of text block. Photographs of or additional information about this item are available on… Read More

[Saint Paul, Minnesota]:: Hot Tomato Press,, 2023.. Open Edition. 3.25" w x 1.75" h x 3.25" d. Mixed media with handmade paper (cotton, acrylics, book rings, gelatin size, and ink). Handmade paper by the artist. Linocut printed, punched and strung. Erica Spitzer Rasmussen: "When I was little, my father told me that eating tomatoes would make me 'big, strong and hairy-chested.' When you're young, of course, it's difficult to separate truth from fiction. I believed my father and stopped eating tomatoes. My brother, who heard the same tall tale around the dinner table, continued to eat tomatoes and you should see how hairy he turned out. 'Hot Tomatoes' are representations of the ever-present ominous fruit from my childhood that animated the theater of my mind. They function as picture books and as sculptural objects.

Limited to 3,000 copies. Black paper covered boards with matching dustjacket. Spanish text. A nice clean copy with no previous owners' names or other defacements. Scarce.
9.5 x 11.25 in

New York: HarperCollins, 2007. Signed by the Barbara Kingsolver and Stephen Hopp on the title page. First edition / First printing. paper-covered boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket.

Los Angeles, CA: Times-Mirror Press, 1923. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 540pp; Green cloth boards with gilt titling to front & spine, boards square, clean & bright, hinges professionally repaired, previous owner's name in pencil to FFEP, text unmarked, binding is tight, VG condition. Scarce, vintage treatise on diet and its relation to health and disease. Argues for natural diet, and questions the efficacy of vaccinations. Illustrated.

Book cover like new, very slight shelf wear - pages clean, bright and unmarked – spine like new.
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This book discusses the preparation of frozen and refrigerated doughs and batters for various bakery foods. It is an ideal sourcebook for commercial bakeries and plants who supply frozen doughs and batters to distribution centers such as supermarkets or institutional bakeries.
In Frozen and Refrigerated Doughs and Batters, 14 experts present the first complete reference on the economic, technological, biochemical, rheological, microbiological, and engineering considerations of frozen dough and batter production.
Because market characteristics, distribution channels, etc., vary across the globe, Frozen and Refrigerated Doughs and Batters examines the industry problems unique to the United States and European markets. Regardless of which section of the globe you… Read More

Oxford, printed by William Hall, for Amos Curteyne, 1665.. TITLE CONTINUED: Whereunto is annexed, observations upon SIR. FRANCIS BACONS NATURAL HISTORY as it concerns fruit-trees, fruits, and flowers. Also, directions for planting of wood for building, fuel, and other uses; whereby the value of lands may be much improved in a short time, with small cost and little labour. The third impression, revised, with additions, by Ra. Austen, practiser in the art of planting, 1665. 2 works bound together each with its own title page and pagination, as often found, dedicated to Robert Boyle. Small 8vo approximately 145 x 95 mm, 5¾ x 3¾ inches, a few woodcut headpieces and initials, pages: [48], 1-260, [10], 1-82, the vertically printed half title present, bound in full early calf, 2 gilt lettered labels and gilt decoration to spine, double gilt rules and blind decoration to edges of covers, marbled edges. Spine rubbed, hinges beginning to crack, covers still firmly attached, labels slighty… Read More

[London], Printed for Nathaniel Brook at the Angel in Cornhill, 1655.. TITLE CONTINUED: By the most experienced persons of our times, many whereof they were honoured with her own practice, when she pleased to descend to these more private recreations. Never before published. Transcribed from the true copies of her Majesties own receipt books, by W. M. one of her late servants. FIRST EDITION IN 3 PARTS, ALL 3 TITLE PAGES DATED 1655: THE QUEENS CABINET OPENED, THE PEARL of PRACTISE, A QUEENS DELIGHT and THE COMPLEAT COOK. Small book, 12mo, approximately 145 x 80 mm, 5¾ x 3 inches, engraved frontispiece portrait of Henrietta Maria signed W Faithorne and laid down on paper, pages: The Queens Cabinet Opened and Queens Delight, [12] including frontispiece, 1-192, [2] title page to Queens Delight, 195-296 followed by [4] - blank pages, [22] - index followed by advert leaf; misnumbering to a few pages of Queens Delight affecting first number of 8 pages, nothing missing; THE COMPLEAT COOK, title page, 3-123,… Read More

New York: Ecco / HarperCollins, 2010. Signed on the half-title page by Anthony Bourdain. First edition / First printing. Navy paper-covered spine, blue paper-covered boards. Fine in a fine dust jacket.