Cooking & Food

Four centuries of cooking, eating and arguing about both — the great chefs and the household manuals, the community cookbooks and the restaurant critics, from Robert May to Escoffier.

• 365 Foreign Dishes Anonymous
• A Book of Fruits and Flowers Anonymous
• A Course of Lectures on Domestic Economy and Cookery Juliet Corson
• A Guide to Modern Cookery Auguste Escoffier
• A Handbook of Cookery for a Small House Jessie Conrad
• A Handbook of Fish Cookery Lucy H. Yates
• A Handbook of Invalid Cooking Mary A. Boland
• A Little Candy Book for a Little Girl Amy Harlow Waterman
• A Little Cook Book for a Little Girl Caroline French Benton
• A Little Preserving Book for a Little Girl Amy Harlow Waterman
• A New System of Domestic Cookery Maria Eliza Rundell
• A Plain Cookery Book for the Working Classes Charles Elmé Francatelli
• A Poetical Cook-Book Maria J. Moss
• A Queens Delight Anonymous
• A Treatise on Adulterations of Food Friedrich Accum
• A Treatise on Bread, and Bread-Making Sylvester Graham
• Acetaria: A Discourse of Sallets John Evelyn
• Allied Cookery Grace Clergue Harrison & Gertrude Clergue
• American Cookery Amelia Simmons
• Better Meals for Less Money Marietta Greenough
• Book of American Baking Various
• Breakfast, Luncheon and Tea Marion Harland
• Cakes & Ale Edward Spencer
• California Mexican-Spanish Cook Book Bertha Haffner-Ginger
• Candy-Making Revolutionized Mary Elizabeth Hall
• Canoe and Camp Cookery Seneca
• Cassell’s Vegetarian Cookery A. G. Payne
• Chinese Recipes Nellie C. Wong
• Chocolate and Cocoa Recipes Maria Parloa & Janet McKenzie Hill
• Chocolate: or, An Indian Drinke Antonio Colmenero de Ledesma
• Choice Cookery Catherine Owen
• Civic League Cook Book Various
• Clayton’s Quaker Cook-Book H. J. Clayton
• Cocoa and Chocolate Arthur W. Knapp
• Common Sense in the Household Marion Harland
• Common-Sense Papers on Cookery A. G. Payne
• Cookery for Little Girls Olive Hyde Foster
• Culinary Herbs M. G. Kains
• Culture and Cooking Catherine Owen
• Desserts and Salads Gesine Lemcke
• Dinners and Diners Newnham-Davis
• Dinners and Luncheons Paul Pierce
• Directions for Cookery Eliza Leslie
• Directions for Cooking by Troops, in Camp and Hospital Florence Nightingale
• Dishes & Beverages of the Old South Martha McCulloch-Williams
• Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers Elizabeth E. Lea
• Domestic French Cookery Sulpice Barué
• Dr. Allinson’s Cookery Book Thomas R. Allinson
• Drinks of the World James Mew & John Ashton
• English Housewifry Elizabeth Moxon
• Enquire Within Upon Everything Robert Kemp Philp
• Every Step in Canning Grace Viall Gray
• Everyday Foods in War Time Mary Swartz Rose
• Favorite Dishes Carrie V. Shuman
• Fifty-Two Sunday Dinners Elizabeth O. Hiller
• Food and Flavor Henry T. Finck
• Food Guide for War Service at Home Frances L. Swain & Florence Powdermaker Katharine Blunt
• Foods and Culinary Utensils of the Ancients Charles Martyn
• Foods and Household Management Helen Kinne & Anna M. Cooley
• Foods That Will Win the War C. Houston Goudiss & Alberta M. Goudiss
• For Luncheon and Supper Guests Alice Bradley
• French Dishes for American Tables Pierre Caron
• Good Things to Eat, as Suggested by Rufus Rufus Estes
• Hand-Book of Practical Cookery Pierre Blot
• Home Pork Making A. W. Fulton
• Host and Guest A. V. Kirwan
• Housekeeping in Old Virginia Marion Cabell Tyree
• How to Prepare and Serve a Meal Lillian B. Lansdown
• Ice Creams, Water Ices, Frozen Puddings Sarah Tyson Rorer
• La Cuisine Creole Lafcadio Hearn
• Living on a Little Caroline French Benton
• Lowney’s Cook Book Maria Willett Howard
• Margaret Brown’s French Cookery Book Margaret Brown
• Marion Harland’s Complete Cook Book Marion Harland
• Miss Beecher’s Domestic Receipt Book Catharine E. Beecher
• Miss Leslie’s Lady’s New Receipt-Book Eliza Leslie
• Miss Leslie’s New Cookery Book Eliza Leslie
• Miss Parloa’s New Cook Book Maria Parloa
• Miss Parloa’s Young Housekeeper Maria Parloa
• Modern American Drinks George J. Kappeler
• Modern Cookery for Private Families Eliza Acton
• Mrs. Wilson’s Cook Book Mary A. Wilson
• New Vegetarian Dishes Mrs. Bowdich
• Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine W. Carew Hazlitt
• Our Edible Toadstools and Mushrooms W. Hamilton Gibson
• Paper-Bag Cookery Vera Serkoff
• Pennsylvania Dutch Cooking Various
• Practical Cooking and Dinner Giving Mary F. Henderson
• Recipes Tried and True Various
• Sandwiches Sarah Tyson Rorer
• School and Home Cooking Carlotta C. Greer
• Science in the Kitchen Ella Eaton Kellogg
• Secrets of Meat Curing and Sausage Making B. Heller & Co.
• Seventy-Five Receipts for Pastry, Cakes and Sweetmeats Eliza Leslie
• Simple Italian Cookery Antonia Isola
• Six Cups of Coffee Various
• Soyer’s Culinary Campaign Alexis Soyer
• Spices and How to Know Them Walter M. Gibbs
• Spons’ Household Manual Various
• Stevenson Memorial Cook Book Various
• Table Traits, with Something on Them John Doran
• Tea and Tea Drinking Arthur Reade
• The Accomplisht Cook Robert May
• The American Practical Brewer and Tanner Joseph Coppinger
• The Art of Confectionary Edward Lambert
• The Art of Cookery Made Easy and Refined John Mollard
• The Art of Home Candy Making Home Candy Makers
• The Art of Living in Australia Philip E. Muskett
• The Belgian Cookbook Various
• The Book of Herbs Rosalind Northcote
• The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Opened Kenelm Digby
• The Community Cook Book Various
• The Complete Book of Cheese Bob Brown
• The Cook and Housekeeper’s Complete and Universal Dictionary Mary Eaton
• The Cook’s Decameron Mrs. W. G. Waters
• The Cookery Blue Book First Unitarian Society of San Francisco
• The Cooking Manual Juliet Corson
• The Cult of the Chafing Dish Frank Schloesser
• The Curiosities of Food P. L. Simmonds
• The Delmonico Cook Book Alessandro Filippini
• The Dinner Year-Book Marion Harland
• The Easiest Way in Housekeeping and Cooking Helen Campbell
• The English Housekeeper Anne Cobbett
• The Feasts of Autolycus Elizabeth Robins Pennell
• The Fireless Cook Book Margaret J. Mitchell
• The Flowing Bowl Edward Spencer
• The Food of the Gods Brandon Head
• The Gastronomic Regenerator Alexis Soyer
• The Golden Rule Cook Book M. R. L. Sharpe
• The Gourmet’s Guide to Europe Newnham-Davis & Algernon Bastard
• The Gourmet’s Guide to London Newnham-Davis
• The Greedy Book Frank Schloesser
• The Hotel St. Francis Cook Book Victor Hirtzler
• The Ideal Bartender Tom Bullock
• The International Jewish Cook Book Florence Kreisler Greenbaum
• The Italian Cook Book Maria Gentile
• The Jewish Manual Judith Montefiore
• The Lady’s Own Cookery Book Charlotte Campbell Bury
• The London and Country Brewer Anonymous
• The Mary Frances Cook Book Jane Eayre Fryer
• The Myrtle Reed Cook Book Myrtle Reed
• The New England Cook Book Anonymous
• The Pantropheon Alexis Soyer
• The Pleasures of the Table George H. Ellwanger
• The Queen-like Closet Hannah Woolley
• The Stag Cook Book C. Mac Sheridan
• The Still-Room Mrs. Charles Roundell & Harry Roberts
• The Story of Crisco Marion Harris Neil
• The White House Cookbook F. L. Gillette & Hugo Ziemann
• Twenty-Five Cent Dinners for Families of Six Juliet Corson