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About me
Andrew F. Smith is a freelance writer and speaker on culinary matters. He teaches culinary history and professional food writing at the New School in Manhattan, serves as the General Editor of the Food Series at the University of Illinois Press, and the general editor for the Edible Series at Reaktion Press in the United Kingdom. He is also the editor-in-chief of the Oxford Encyclopedia on Food and Drink in America and the Oxford Companion to American Food and Drink.
Articles
On a hot summer’s afternoon at an outdoor flea-market, I ran across a cardboard box brimming with dust-covered cooking pamphlets. The dealer was preparing to leave when I started to rummage through the box. I asked for the price. With sweat dripping down his face, the proprietor replied a buck apiece. I slowly started to examine them. When almost everything else was packed away, the dealer proposed fifty bucks for the entire box. "What a deal," he proclaimed without exuberance. W...
Abell, Mrs. L. G. The Skilful [sic] Housewife’s Book. New-York: D. Newell, 1846. [Lowenstein #392]
Abell, Mrs. L. G. The Skillful Housewife’s Book. New-York: J. M. Fairchild & Co., 1855. [Edition not in Lowenstein]
Abell, Mrs. L. G. The Skillful Housewife’s Book. In Saxton’s Rural Hand Books. Fourth Series. New York; C. M. Saxton and Company, 1857. [Edition not in Lowenstein]
Acton, Eliza. Modern Cookery: Prepared for American Housekeeper by Mrs. S. J. Hale. From the Second London Edition. ...
Abell, Mrs. L. G. The Skillful Housewife’s Book. New-York: J. M. Fairchild & Co., 1855. [Edition not in Lowenstein]
Abell, Mrs. L. G. The Skillful Housewife’s Book. In Saxton’s Rural Hand Books. Fourth Series. New York; C. M. Saxton and Company, 1857. [Edition not in Lowenstein]
Acton, Eliza. Modern Cookery: Prepared for American Housekeeper by Mrs. S. J. Hale. From the Second London Edition. ...
I first ran across a copy of the 1874 edition of Ransom’s Family Receipt Book at the American Antiquarian Society in Worcester, Massachusetts. It intrigued me enough to purchase several booklets last year when a bookdealer offered them to me. However, at the time I was in the midst of several writing tasks, so I set them aside. When I began preparing an article on advertising cookbooklets for the Cookbook Collectors Exchange Newsletter, I examined the Ransom booklets more closely. They had bee...
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