I am bringing lots of collectible & rare Cookbooks & Menus!
Please visit me in Booth #310 at the upcoming Antiquarian Bookfair in Pasadena, October 3 & 4.
Hours: Sat 10 - 6 and Sun 11 -4.
Pasadena Center, 300 E. Green St., Pasadena 91101
I hope to see YOU there!
Many of your favorite players and coaches are really great cooks; just like you they love to barbeque and share their secrets of great grilling, with recipes for Fire-alarm Chili, Special Ribs, Pesto Lasagna. We offer lots of collectible books with menu ideas to “rev up” your tailgating parties, making the prep work easy and the weekends Fun!
For more information (831) 251-9218
Can’t wait to go on the Edible Gardens Tour Santa Cruz, 2015
Saturday, August 8, 10:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. Link below…
http://slowfoodsantacruzegt.bpt.me/
In 2013, our own front yard garden was showcased during this same tour as an example of replacing an old front lawn with vegetables and fruit trees. During this California drought people ask me how is my garden doing? My answer is that I have planted lots of wonderful herbs, mulch with compost, and keep using the buckets of collected water from inside the house.
We have many collectible books on gardening, greenhouse design, practical advice on composting and seed propagation. For more info (831) 251-9218
Order from the Poolside menu, or call for Room Service!
Newly acquired are menus from the very best restaurants and finest hotels in Palm Springs:
the El Mirador, the Town and Country, the Silver Palm Room, the La Quinta, the Riviera,
Dave Margolis' & Jack Dempsey's Howard Manor and Don the Beachcomber.
The Wine Lists are impressive for the period, reflecting the
expectations of their famous clientele.
And the delicatessen sandwiches as described are mouthwatering!
Return to the original desert hideaway for Hollywood stars!
Call for more information (831) 251-9218
On July 26 we'll be going to the 6th annual Festival del Nopal in downtown Santa Cruz
for the amazing food, music and dancing!
http://www.festivaldelnopal.com/
From our collection of signed cookbooks: the great Diana Kennedy describes her technique for shaving the spines off nopales in her book "From My Mexican Kitchen, Techniques and Ingredients" (2003) which we currently offer a signed 1st edition copy on our website. Call for more information (831) 251-9218
Celebrate Bastille Day! I love to watch the Waiters Race or “Course des garçons de café“ where uniformed waiters carrying trays loaded with 3 glasses and a bottle of beer run five miles through the streets of Paris.
Here is the link to a previous year's Waiters Race on youtube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRpkDxk9e28
Bonjour! This will be a collector's item and is an excellent reference for your collection!
(The 48pp. catalog is free, however there is a nominal s/h charge.)
- All items offered are subject to prior sale.
- Any item may be returned if not satisfied; please let us know ASAP.
- Libraries may receive deferred billing, please inquire.
- California residents will be charged appropriate sales tax.
- Items will be sent USPS Media Mail unless requested otherwise.
- Please ask about International shipping charges.
- Feel free to call us anytime, (831) 251-9218. If not here, please
leave a message & we will return your call promptly.
Best Wishes for a Happy Summer!
Liz Pollock
A sure-fire way to start a conversation, this cocktail Folio size book of stupendous photographs by Nathan Myhrvold and the team at The Cooking Lab will take you on a visual journey of raw food and food being cooked "really close up."
I personally attended this exhibit in San Jose, CA and this book is a knock-out production! The Photography of Modernist Cuisine. By Nathan Myhrvold. Bellevue, WA: The Cooking Lab, 2013. Heavy Folio size. 13.5" x 17". 300pp., with detailed description of the photographic process, list of contributors including Chris Hoover, Ryan Matthew Smith and Melissa Lehuta. Color pictorial bds., color pictorial endpapers.
Call to order (831) 251-9218
Horse's Neck. “Use a Tom Collins glass. Peel a lemon in one long string and place into the above glass with one end of the rind hanging over the side. Place 3 pieces of ice in the glass. Fill the glass with domestic or imported Ginger Ale and serve.”
(Cocktails) Recipes. St. Paul Bartenders Union Local 287. St. Paul, MN: N.d., (ca. 1930's). 12mo. 36pp., recipes, charts e.g. "Revenue Received From Sale of Spirituous Liquor", ads for Schenley Products such as Old Quaker Bourbon and imports such as Noilly Prat Vermouth and Dewar's White Label Scotch. Green illustrated stapled wraps., illustration is of a Bartender smiling while shaking a cocktail shaker. Tiny hole present through top portion for convenient string, some stains, covers rubbed, else Good. Includes "Hints for Bartenders" being 10 rules for cleanliness, paying dues on time, proper dress attire of white shirt plus four-in-hand tie, etc.
To order this item, www.cooksbookcase.com or call us (831) 251-9218Happy Easter! We offer many cookbooks with especially ambitious menus & elaborate descriptions of courses in sequence and detail. For example:
A Book of Good Dinners For My Friend, or “What to Have for Dinner” by Fannie Merritt Farmer (published in 1914).
