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New York, New York

Bonnie Slotnick Cookbooks

Spiral-bound community recipes and antiquarian gems mingle at this small East Village shop.
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New Orleans, Louisiana

Kitchen Witch Cookbooks

This colorful New Orleans bookstore features rare and used titles, with a specialty in Cajun fare.
New York, New York

Joanne Hendricks Cookbooks

Unusual books about food and drink abound in this 19th-century New York townhouse.
The folio of al-Warrāq's manuscript.
medieval

The 10th-Century Baghdad Cookbook That’s a Poetic Tome to Food

The text features exhaustive directions for cooking, eating, and being.
Paula Mejia October 3, 2018
Portuguese traders on a ship, taking tea.
food

Inside a 17th-Century 'Barbarian' Cookbook From Japan

It included Portuguese and Japanese recipes for caramel, cake, and an early tempura.
Anne Ewbank September 11, 2018
Behold!
medieval

Exploring a 'Treasure Trove' of Medieval Egyptian Recipes

A newly translated cookbook provides a tantalizing glimpse of Cairo's past.
Abbey Perreault September 4, 2018
Barbara Kafka tastes a bowl of lobster broth that she made in one of her many microwaves.
food

Remembering the Cookbook Author Who Made Microwave Meals Gourmet

Barbara Kafka bucked assumptions about kitchen appliances.
Paula Mejia June 13, 2018
This board game can be eaten, board and all.
games

The Designer Making Board Games You Can Eat

Win or lose, all that's left are crumbs.
Anne Ewbank May 24, 2018
<em>The Gay Cookbook</em> was a culinary trailblazer.
food

Years Before Stonewall, a Chef Published the First Gay Cookbook

It was the first to be marketed to gay men.
Anne Ewbank May 7, 2018
Tanaquil Le Clercq signs books during the signing of The Ballet Cook Book at Bloomingdale's, in New York, alongside Jacques d'Amboise and Melissa Hayden in 1967.
food

How a 1960s Cookbook Became a Window Into the Secret Lives of Ballet Icons

The out-of-print book became a ballerina’s second act.
Trina Mannino April 4, 2018
Part of Harris's interest in the culinary traditions of Maryland involves the rich history that accompanies it.
collections

The Blogger Quietly Preserving Maryland’s Culinary History

Kara Mae Harris hopes to archive every local cookbook.
Kristina Gaddy March 20, 2018
Time to eat.
food

14 Unusual Cookbooks That Were Still Fit to Print

The collections of Gastro Obscura readers feature cannibalism, bugs, and Dracula.
Anne Ewbank March 20, 2018
We hope that it's not a real hippo cookbook.
food

Tell Us About Your Most Unusual Cookbook

Do you have an offbeat cookbook in your collection? Gastro Obscura wants to see it.
Anne Ewbank March 12, 2018
Hannah Woolley, depicted in the title page of <em>The Gentlewoman's Companion</em>.
science

How 17th-Century Women Replicated the Natural World on the Table

Inventive chefs made hedgehog pudding and creamy artificial snow.
Samantha Snively February 28, 2018
Maybe grandma's secret family recipe isn't so secret after all.
secret

The Dirty Secret of ‘Secret Family Recipes’

Surprisingly often, they're copied from mayo jars and famous cookbooks.
Alex Mayyasi February 27, 2018
Are you jelly?
objects of intrigue

Nostradamus Wrote Prophecies; He Also Made Jelly

His cookbook contained recipes for sweets and plague remedies.
Anne Ewbank February 15, 2018
Slightly Fires the Emperor recipe by Jowett Yu.
food

7 Wonderfully Bizarre Illustrations From a New Chinese Cookbook

Interpreting red bean ice cream, General Tso’s Gator, and pao cai as art.
Mithila Phadke February 7, 2018
Mrs. Fisher's knack for making pickled goods earned her accolades and awards. Pickles (pictured here circa 1960) remain a pillar of southern cooking.
food

Celebrating Abby Fisher, One of the First African-American Cookbook Authors

Chefs are recreating pickled foods she made as an ex-slave turned successful chef.
Paula Mejia December 8, 2017