 | New York Times 25 Most Influential Cookbooks From the Last 100 Years "Despite its millions of recipes, the internet hasn’t killed cookbooks. Instead, the genre’s fans seem more motivated than ever to collect and use them — and not just for making dinner. For some, they’re bedside reading. For others, they’re design objects. A cookbook can be a work of cultural anthropology, a historical record, an instruction manual and a vehicle for armchair travel" - New York Times - T Magazine article "The 25 Most Influential Cookbooks From the Last 100 Years" (11/17/24) Dawn Davis: founding publisher of 37 Ink, an imprint of Simon & Schuster stated: "A cookbook can tell a story in a way that an individual recipe can’t. It can have an expansive worldview and a point of view, which is why we still publish them and why people still buy them." We have gathered up some of these prizewinners and added a couple more titles that we think are also worthy of this praise: | |  | | | |  | How to Cook a Wolf.
Fisher, M.F.K.
New York: Dual, Sloan, and Pearce, 1942. Third printing. Hardcover. 261 pages. 22 x 14 cm. A classic from the first lady of food writing. Fisher wrote How to Cook a.... (#4451)
Price: $375.00 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  | HOW TO COOK AND EAT IN CHINESE.
Chao, Buwei Yang.
New York: THE JOHN DAY COMPANY, 1945. Second Impression. Hardcover. 262 pages. 20.5 x 14 cm. One of the first women in China to practice Western medicine, Buwei Yang Chao... (#4466)
Price: $150.00 | | | | | |  | THE FRENCH LAUNDRY COOKBOOK; Photographs by Deborah Jones.
Keller, Thomas with Sussie Heller and Michael Ruhlman.
New York: Artisan, 1999. (later edition). Hardcover. T325 pages. 29 x 28.5 cm. homas Keller's The French Laundry Cookbook is a celebrated culinary masterpiece that offers readers a glimpse into... (#4465)
Price: $50.00 | | |  | The Cuisines of Mexico; Forward by Craig Claiborne.
Kennedy, Diana.
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. 378 pages. 24 x 19 cm. Kennedy embraces the cuisines of the Spanish and the Native American as well as... (#4131)
Price: $40.00 | | | Now for the titles we think are just as important:  | Jesse's Book of Creole and Deep South Recipes.
Watts, Edith Ballard with John Watts.
New York: The Viking Press, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. 184 pages. 22 x 15 cm. Recipes of Jesse Willis Lewis, African-American chef from New Orleans as set down by his... (#4468)
Price: $185.00 | | |  | APPETITES - A COOKBOOK; ADVANCE READER'S EDITION.
Bourdain, Anthony with Laurie Woolever.
New York: ecco, 2016. Uncorrected Proof. Paperback. 290 pages. 25.5 x 20 cm. Bourdain's voice comes through loud and clear with his no-nonsense declarations, for instance, speaking of Caesar Salad... (#3510)
Price: $325.00 | | | | | |  | JOYCE CHEN COOK BOOK; Forward by Paul Dudley White, M.D.
Chen, Joyce.
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1962. Fourth Printing. Hardcover. 223 pages. 22 x 20 cm. The author, Joyce Chen (1917-1994), was recognized by the American public as popularizing authentic Chinese cuisine... (#4135)
Price: $40.00 | | |  | James Beard's FISH COOKERY; Drawings by Harry O. Diamond.
Beard, James.
London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. 460 pages. An avid entertainer, James Beard shares his favorite fish recipes dividing his subjects into sea-water fish, freshwater fish, shellfish... (#3642)
Price: $175.00 | | |  | Treasury of Outdoor Cooking.
Beard, James.
New York: a ridge press book/golden press, 1960. Hardcover. 282 pages. 30 x 21 cm. Everything you need to know about outdoor cooking - grilling, spit & skewer cooking, pit... (#3550)
Price: $5.00 | | | | | |
