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New! Our Family's Favorite Recipes: A Create-Your-Own Cookbook

New! A Thousand Years Over a Hot Stove: A History of American Women Told through Food, Recipes, and Remembrances

New! A History Of The World In Six Glasses

New! Civil War Period Cookery: A Unique Collection of Favorite Recipes from Notable People & Families Involved In The War Between the States
"Civil War Period Cookery is a unique book of historical recipes. It is chock full of delightfully delicious cooking ideas favored by many famous people of days long past. This book contains the prized recipes for those dishes cooked by or eaten by some of the better known as well as lesser known figures from the Civil War era of our glorious history. Included are recipes for tasty breads and interesting baked goods, skillet southern fried chicken and really good poultry dishes. The reader will also be treated to many taste-tempting soups, stews and stuffings -- and, yes, even pickles as well as loads of other wonderful things. Or a reader may wish to try some buttermilk pie, an array of wonderful desserts, rhubarb punch and other delightful beverages. Then he or she may wish to make the unusual corn bread with a streak of delicious custard running through it. Yes, anyone can now enjoy a meal exactly like that eaten by those who wore both the blue and the gray during the War Between the States - or as some unreconstructed Southerners still refer to it - the War of Northern Aggression"

New! Baking Recipes from the Wives and Mothers of our Founding Fathers
"...a marvelous collection of delightfully different baking recipes favored by the 56 Signers of the Declaration of Independence and the 39 Signers of the Constitution. A number of these heroic men from America's past are well known to Americans today (Washington, Franklin, Madison, etc.). Many others have been forgotten with the passage of time (Bassett, Hopkinson, Ross, etc.). Each recipe is followed by a brief biographical sketch covering interesting highlights of the person's accomplishments, thoughts and beliefs.
"Included are coveted treasures handed down over the many years within a family. Recipes for fragrant fresh pies, delightful loaves bread, or a batch of delicious cookies are presented for today's families to enjoy and experience the pleasure of preparing, baking and serving - exactly as was done in the past."

New! Baking Recipes from the Wives & Mothers of Civil War Heroes, Heroines & Other Notables: Authentic Baking Recipes of, and Trivia About, Men and Women Involved in the War Between the States
"A unique collection of recipes covering everything from bread and crackers and biscuits to cookies and layer cakes and pies as they were enjoyed by heroes on both sides of the War Between the States."

New! At Freedom's Table: More than 200 Years of Recipes and Remembrances from Military Wives
"A collection of recipes, anecdotes, and vintage photos, this book traces the history and unique contributions of American military wives over the past 200 years, from a Colonial Thanksgiving to Christmas in the Confederate White House to modern-day foods from around the world."

A Taste For War: The Culinary History of the Blue and the Gray

Civil War Cookbook: A Unique Collection of Traditional Recipes and Anecdotes from the Civil War Period

Whistler's Mother's Cookbook icon

Grandma's Farm Country Cookbook iconThe old cook's almanac; being a compilation of recipes, rules and methods from antique, handwritten cookbooks in the collection of the author ... icon

Mrs. Beeton's Every Day Cookery and Housekeeping Book

Mrs. Winslow' s Domestic Receipt Book for 1867

American Food Habits in Historical Perspective

Hungering for America: Italian, Irish, and Jewish Foodways in the Age of Migrationicon

Victorian Cups and Punches and Other Concoctions

Martha Washington's Booke of Cookery and Booke of Sweetmeats

Chef Wyman's Daily Health Menus, Intelligent Balance of Food the Safeguard to Good Health icon
(1927)

Home Helps. a Pure Food Cook Book icon
(1910)

Jell-O and the Kewpies icon
(1915)

Food Editors' Hometown Favorites Cookbook: American Regional and Local Specialties icon

Cooking on the Lewis and Clark Expedition (Exploring History Through Simple Recipes)

New! World's Fair Menu and Recipe Book-a Collection of the Most Famous Menus Exhibited at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition icon
(1915)

The Lewis & Clark Cookbook: Historic Recipes from the Corps of Discovery and Jefferson's America

Libations of the Eighteenth Century: A Concise Manual for the Brewing of Authentic Beverages from the Colonial Era of America, and of Times Past
"A manual dedicated to recreating the brewed beverages that existed in the American Colonies. All of the historic recipes were documented as dating from 1800 or earlier, and all were taste-tested. The book consists of more than fifty recipes for ale, beer, mead, hard cider, and mixed drinks, including an award winning recipe for porter. Along with the recipes is a how-to chapter on brewing. There is an additional chapter on non-alcoholic brews, such as tea and coffee, and herbal substitutes for both. Plus, a section on making non-alcoholic beer, and carbonated soft drinks."

Scrapbooking With Recipes: Ideas for Preserving Kitchen Memories
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Creating scrapbook memories of cherished family food traditions is easy with this complete guide to selecting papers, laying out pages, and scrapbooking basics. Vibrant full-color photography inspires scrapbookers to preserve precious memories from classic cooking moments, as well as capture new cooking memories."

Recipe Keepsakes: Your Special Collection of Family Treasures
"One book for writing 1000 favorite recipes, 100 favorite cookbook names, your favorite recipe index and 12 pockets for storing newspaper clippings, magazine recipes and recipes, scribbled on napkins. Makes saving recipes easy. Saves time. Organizes pieces of paper you want to keep. "

16 Classic American Recipes and the Stories of How They Began icon

The Confederate Cookbook: Family Favorites from the Sons of Confederate Veterans icon

The Jewish Heritage Cookbook

Meals and Memories: How to Create Create Keepsake Cookbooks

Passions: The Wines and Travels of Thomas Jefferson
"This is a biography of Thomas Jefferson at leisure, enjoying two of his passions--wine and travel. Twelve of the sixteen chapters cover Jefferson's five years in France where he served as our minister and traveled through France, England, Germany, Italy and Holland. Passions was selected by Robert M. Parker, Jr. as '1995 Wine Book of the Year,' and was the winner of the 1995 'Veuve Clicquot Wine Book of the Year' competition. It is a marvelous account of America's first wine connoisseur and gourmet."

Take Two & Butter 'Em While They're Hot: Heirloom Recipes & Kitchen Wisdom
"Cook your heart out with generations of hand-me-down recipes and food lore! Barbara Swell has whisked up weather and cooking folklore, food insults, old-timey home remedies, vintage photos, romance superstitions, hearth crafts and 19th Century chores. "

Log Cabin Cooking: Pioneer Recipes & Food Lore
Peppered with authentic 19th Century photographs, this cookbook is smothered with old-timey recipes, kitchen proverbs, even a pinch of proper pioneer etiquette! Make-do cooking recipes include Leather Britches, Ash Cake and Portable Soup, using ingredients available to settlers 150 years ago! Other goodies: hand-dipped candle making, soup warnings, molasses taffy, faux foods, zucchini clarinet and ginger beer!

Beer in America: The Early Years, 1587-1840 : Beers Role in the Settling of America and the Birth of a Nation

Dining by Rail: The History and Recipes of America's Golden Age of Railroad Cuisine

Silas Cully's Tavern Tales: Stories, Jokes, and Recipes from a Nineteenth Century Barkeeper

Secrets of the Great Old-Timey Cooks: Historic Recipes, Lore & Wisdom

Colonial Cooking: Exploring History Through Simple Recipes

Colonial Fireplace Cooking and Early American Recipes

The Art of American Indian Cooking: Over 150 Delicious, Authentic & Traditional Dishes from Five North American Regions

Enduring Harvests: Native American Foods Foods and Festivals for Every Season

The Medieval Cookbook

Much Depends on Dinner: The Extraordinary History and Mythology, Allure and Obsessions, Perils and Taboos, of an Ordinary Meal

Recipes Remembered

Christmas in the Heartland

Rebel Cornbread and Yankee Coffee: Authentic Civil War Cooking and Camaraderie

Favorite Dishes: A Columbian Autograph Souvenir Cookery Book

America's Collectible Cookbooks: The History, the Politics, the Recipes icon

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Alabama

New! Around the Spiral Staircase: Recipes and Lore from Each Alabama County... icon

Wetumpka's Besticon

Treasured Recipes of Hale County (Alabama)

Gulf Coast Gourmet Seafood Recipes icon

Magnolia Springs Cookbook

Twickenham Receipts and Sketches icon

Huntsville Heritage Cookbook icon

Gulf City Cookbook
Reprint of the 1878 original

The Recipes of Madison County [Alabama] icon

Smokehouse Ham, Spoon Bread & Scuppernong Wine: The Folklore and Art of Southern Appalachian Cooking
"A scrumptious slice of Smoky Mountain and Blue Ridge hill country folklore, handed down from Scotland, England, Wales, Ireland, Germany, and the Cherokee Nation, this book covers the art, foods, blessings, and legends of the people of this fascinating region."

The African-American Heritage Cookbook: Traditional Recipes and Fond Remembrances from Alabama's Renowned Tuskegee Institute
"Includes memories and literary passages that evince the spirit of Tuskegee and complement more than two hundred traditional recipes with pictorial accounts, personal vignettes, and poetry."

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Alaska

The Alaska Heritage Seafood Cookbook: Great Recipes from Alaska's Rich Kettle of Fish

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Arizona

 Arizona's Historic Restaurants and Their Recipes

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Arkansas

Art of Cooking in Fort Smith

Best of the Best from Arkansas: Selected Recipes from Arkansas' Favorite Cookbooks
"This treasury of favorite recipes will enable you to capture Arkansas' special cuisine—and taste its natural wonder. Included in the more than 400 recipes are such delightful dishes as Fried Green Tomatoes, Sadie's Deep Dish Chicken Pot Pie, Rice Pudding, Oven-Poached Rainbow Trout with Cucumber-Dill Cloud, Peaches and Cream Soufflé, and Stovepipe Bread. From quite simple to simply elegant, these recipes are sure to become family favorites."

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California

New! A Festival of Olives: Olive Recipes From the Olive City icon
Corning, California

New! The Hotel St. Francis Cook Book icon

New! Roots, Recipes, & Recollections icon
Santa Barbara County Genealogical Society

Recipes From Historic San Juan Bautista icon

What's Cooking in California icon
(circa 1940)

Knights Ferry Centennial Cook Book

Stanislaus County Cookbook icon

A Taste of Humboldt: an Historical and Ethnic Cookbook of Humboldt County, California icon

Early California Hospitality: the Cookery Customs of Spanish California, with Authentic Recipes and Menus of the Period icon
(1938)

Four 'N Twenty Blackbirds, California Book on Game Cookery & Other Recipes

California Gold Rush Cooking (Exploring History Through Simple Recipes)

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Colorado

Recipes and Stories of Early San Luis Valley

Country Cookbook Our Favorite Recipes Crestone Colorado icon

For the Love of Chocolate: Irresistible Recipes From the Heart of Colorado icon

Jefferson County Extension Homemakers Home Cookin' icon

Pioneer Potluck: Stories and Recipes of Early Colorado

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Connecticut

The Connecticut Cookbook: Being A Collection of Recipes from Connecticut Kitchens Equally adapted for Wartime and Peacetime
(1940's)

Lyme's Own Cook Book icon
(CT, 1933)

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Florida

 Flavors of St. Augustine: An Historic Cookbook icon

Florida's Historic Restaurants and Their Recipes

Famous Florida Cracker Cookin' and Other Favorites (with record)

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Georgia

New! Seven Springs Sampler: Herb Recipes from Historic Homes of Powder Springs, Georgia icon

DALTON COOKING: Past, Present, Future icon

Favorite Recipes from Harris County

Cook Book
(1925) Royston, Georgia Woman's Club

Recipes and Reminiscence icon

Famous Recipes From Mrs. Wilkes' Boarding House in Historic Savannah icon

Georgia's Historic Restaurants and Their Recipes

Georgia Land: A Collection of Georgia Recipes, Historic Landmarks and Scenic Attractions

Smokehouse Ham, Spoon Bread & Scuppernong Wine: The Folklore and Art of Southern Appalachian Cooking

Remember When...?  Family, Friends, and Recipes

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Illinois

New! Cooking Up Memories icon
by Tazewell County (Illinois) Genealogical And Historical Society

Favorite Recipes Dekalb County Illinois Homemakers Extension 1972 icon

Lincoln Heritage Trail Cookbook icon

Rediscovering German Cookery in Adams County icon

The Legendary Illinois Cookbook: Historic and Culinary Lore from the Prairie State
"The Legendary Illinois Cookbook is an affectionate journey through Illinois that offers a panoramic view of the state and its favorite foods. The six geographical areas of Illinois provide the framework for a comprehensive collection of over 600 recipes that will please any member of the family. Along with the broad selection of delicious foods, the authors have included fascinating historical background for each of the six geographical sections and have also scattered interesting town tidbits among the recipes. To round out the image, charming original artwork and wonderful old photographs highlight many of the unique characteristics of Illinois. The overall result is a cookbook chock full of food, fun, and facts that will be as much fun to read as it will be to use."

The Great Chicago Melting Pot Cookbook
"A city with the representation of literally hundreds of ethnic groups, Chicago has rightfully earned its nickname as the melting pot of America. The authors of The Great Chicago Melting Pot Cookbook have selected a representative group of these nationalities and, in over 400 recipes, have presented the best of their native cuisine. One of the most distinguishing characteristics of a culture is its cooking and The Great Chicago Melting Pot Cookbook is a delightful way to get acquainted. Over the years, American immigrants have adapted the recipes from their homeland to reflect the tastes and available ingredients of their new country. The recipes found here are easy for the American cook to follow, yet still retain the character of the original cuisine."

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Indiana

Cooking from Quilt Country: Hearty Recipes from Amish and Mennonite Kitchens
"Includes nearly 200 family recipes from America's heartland, a culinary folk history of the Indiana Amish and Mennonites. This celebration of farm life is a companion volume to the PBS series hosted by Adams. 64 full-color photographs."

New Recipes from Quilt Country: More Food & Folkways from the Amish & Mennonites

The Brown County Cookbook

Lincoln's Table: Victorian Recipes from Kentucky, Indiana, and Illinois to the White House

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Iowa

Country Cooking by the Amish of Buchanan County, Iowa

Amish Cooking and Canning: Buchanan County, Iowa icon

The Madison County Cookbook: Homespun Recipes, Family Traditions, & Recollections From Winterset, Iowa-the Heart of Madison County icon

A Collection of Traditional Amana Recipes; Family-Sized Recipes of the Foods Prepared and Served in the Amana Villages for Over a Century icon

Best of the Best from Iowa: Selected Recipes from Iowa's Favorite Cookbooks
"The 'land between two rivers'—the Missouri and the Mississippi—boasts some of the nation's richest farmland and a bounty of delicious treats. Bring the Best Iowa cooking into your own kitchen with such traditional favorites as Swedish Meatballs, Dutch Handkerchiefs, Iowa Corn Pancakes, Rhubarb Crisp, and Stuffed Glazed Pork Chops—just a sampling of the 400 or so recipes included within these pages."

A Cook's Tour of Iowa

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Kansas

Methodist Cook Book
(1929) Kingman, Kansas

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Kentucky

New! Hospitality Kentucky Style, Kentucky Heritage Grand Tour and Kentucky Fine Foods and Spirits icon

The New Claudia Sanders Dinner House of Shelbyville, Kentucky, Cookbook icon

Out of Green River Kitchens (A Collection of Family Recipes) icon

A Fort Craig Reader: An Historical Cookbook Presented By the Hart County Historical Society icon

Favorite Recipes From Caldwell County Homemakers 1971 icon

Larue County Kitchens icon

Home Cookin': the JANES Family icon

Green River Catfish Festival Cookbook, Etc. icon

The Happy Cooker Cookbook, United Democratic Women's Club, Union County, Kentucky icon

A Second Tasting Tour Through Washington County Kentucky; Kentucky Bicentennial Edition icon

Charles Patteson's Kentucky Cooking icon

My Old Kentucky Homes Cookbook icon

Kentucky Hospitality: a 200-Year Tradition icon 
(1976)

Famous Kentucky Recipes icon
(1956)

A Book of Favorite Recipes, Compiled By Jefferson County School Food Service Assoc. ( Lunchroom Managers and Employers ) icon
(1976)

The Kentucky Bicentennial Cookbook: Featuring Famous Historical Kentucky Recipes 1776-1976 icon
Mercer County Bicentennial Commemorative

Kentucky Keepsakes: Classic Southern Recipes

Savory Memories
"Adding a cup of this and a pinch of that, author Elisabeth Beattie cooks up "Savory Memories", a collection of 22 essays about particular dishes from Kentucky that call up warm memories. The book is both a cookbook and a compendium of sentiments, blending essays, illustrations, and recipes with humor and nostalgia."

The Kentucky Housewife icon
"First published in 1839, this long-lost classic of Southern cooking is a combination of foods and recipes from American Indian, European, and African sources, all cooked and seasoned in a hot climate."

Lincoln's Table: Victorian Recipes from Kentucky, Indiana, and Illinois to the White House

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Maryland

Receipts From Old Worcester icon

A Book of Favorite Recipes of Bel Air Woman's Club of Harford County, Maryland icon

Maryland's Historic Restaurants and Their Recipes

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Maine

Pot Luck in Surry. Compiled and Published By the Surry Parent-Teacher Club. 1952 icon
Hancock County

Waldo County General Hospital Aid Cook Book icon
(circa 1920)

Signed: What's Cooking Down in Maine. With Local History Slipped in icon

Best of Maine Recipes icon

Damariscotta Kitchens-Favorite Recipes From Historic Lincoln County, Maine icon

Good Maine Food icon

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Massachusetts

The Captain's Lady: Cookbook - Personal Journal; Massachusetts; circa 1837-1917 icon

Provincetown Seafood Cookbook icon

Recipes From the Portuguese of Provincetown icon

Through the Front Door: Recipes From Ashfield Homes Ashfield, MA is a unique place to live. Nestled in the foothills of the Berkshires, Ashfield offers a true rural lifestyle with quick access to the key cultural centers of Western Massachusetts. Presented in an original monthly format, geared to the seasons of the town, this cookbook is a compilation of time tested generation old recipes from a wide cross section of residents. Through the Front Door offers a plethora of recipes, photographs, town facts and trivia.

The Nantucket Restaurants Cookbook: Menus and Recipes from the Faraway Isle 

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Michigan

A Feast of Good Things
(1921) by the Ladies of the Emmanuel Church, Hastings, Michigan

Manistee County Pomona Grange Cookbook

The Saginaw Cook Book icon
(1929)

History from the Hearth: A Colonial Michilimackinac Cookbook

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Minnesota

Food on the Frontier: Minnesota Cooking from 1850 to 1900 with Selected Recipes icon

Best of the Best from Minnesota: Selected Recipes from Minnesota's Favorite Cookbooks icon

Minnesota Eats Out: An Illustrated History

100 Years of Good Cooking: The Minnesota Centennial Cookbook
"Features nearly three hundred old and new recipes from the kitchens of homemakers in cities and on farms in Minnesota's 87 counties. This favorite includes centuries-old traditional ethnic specialties as well as modern regional tried-and-true home cooking."

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Mississippi

A Book of Favorite Recipes Compiled By Bank of Lucedale Directors, Officers & Employees

Kitchen Keepsakes: Family Recipes from the Deep South

Coahoma Cooking: Every Day and Sunday, Too
(1962)

Cookin' on the Mississippi: Gourmet French and English Recipes from Louisiana and Mississippi Plantations and Paddle Wheelers

Home Economic Department Tunica County Woman's Club Cook Book icon
(1921)

Favorite Recipes of the Magnolia State icon
(1948)

Worth Savoring Literary, Visual and Culinary Creations From the Hills of North Mississippi icon
Union County Historical Society

Sold! Bread of Life icon
Cookbook by Shady Grove Baptist Church, Lucedale, Mississippi

Best of the Best from Mississippi ...
"Taste the superb culinary heritage found in such delightful dishes as Willie Morris' Mamie's Fried Chicken, Red Beans and Rice, Farm-Raised Catfish Williamsburg, Hotel Natchez Bread Pudding, Mississippi Mud Cake, and William Faulkner's own Pappy's Hot Toddy which he said was guaranteed to cure anything from a horse kick to a bad cold."

A Grand Heritage: A Culinary Legacy of Columbus, Mississippi icon

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 Missouri

Sold! A Book of Favorite Recipes icon
Audrain County Historical Society

Clay County Cookin'

The Never Ending Season: the Cookbook of Missouri icon

The Shaw House Cookbook icon

Food in Missouri: A Cultural Stew icon

Past & Repast: the History and Hospitality of the Missouri Governor's Mansion icon

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Nebraska

Prairie Kitchen Sampler: 66 Years of a Midwestern Farm Kitchen

Guild Cook Book icon
(1908) Women's Guild of St. Peter's Church, Neligh, Antelope County

Nebraska Pioneer Cookbook

Best of the Best from the Great Plains: Selected Recipes from Favorite Cookbooks of North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, and Kansas

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Nevada

The Virginia City Cook Book: Authentic Recipes of the Old West icon 

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New Mexico

New! Bite of History: Recipes & Tales from the Mesilla Valley

The Rancho De Chimayo Cookbook: the Traditional Cooking of New Mexico icon

Santa Fe Cookery: Traditional New Mexican Recipes icon

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New York

New! Northport Cook Book: Favorite Recipes Collected By Members of Trinity Episcopal Church, Northport, N. Y.

Our Grandmothers' Recipes and Some Others icon
(1914) Ontario County, New York Historical Society

Good Stuff Recipes, Hints, and Advice From Grandma Gifford icon
Canandaigua, Ontario County, New York

What's Cooking at Saratoga? icon

The Magnolia Bakery Cookbook:...

Best of the Best from New York: Selected Recipes from New York's Favorite Cookbooks
"Imagine having prominent chefs, popular restaurants, junior leagues, plus a variety of other superb New York cooks, each offering delicious samples of their particular cooking style and taste all in one book! Sixty-seven popular cookbooks from all over the Empire State have contributed their favorite recipes to this outstanding collection. There's everything from Cappuccino Parfaits to Bronx Duck, and practically a whole chapter on cheesecakes! Ah, the delicious diversity!

"Best of the Best from New York is the thirty-first volume in the acclaimed Best of the Best State Cookbook Series. Each of these culinary travelogues includes photographs, illustrations, and interesting quips about the history, folklore, and food of each featured state. The Catalog of Contributing Cookbooks sections provide a description of each contributing cookbook plus ordering information-a treasure for cookbook collectors."

Welcome to Junior's! Remembering Brooklyn With Recipes and Memories from Its Favorite Restaurant

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North Carolina

New! Dixie Dishes. Rocky Mount Edition. Compiled By the Junior Guild, Rocky Mount, North Carolina

Seaboard to Sideboard: A Collection of Recipes from the Junior League of Wilmington, North Carolina icon

A Book of Favorite Recipes icon
Little River, Transylvania County

Hungry for Home Stories of Food From Across the Carolinas With More Than 200 Favorite Recipes icon

Seafood Cookery From Carteret County Kitchens icon

Tastes in Plaid: Alamance County Entertains icon

Brunswick County Shrinettes Cook Book icon

North Carolina and Old Salem Cookery icon
Forsyth County

The Tar Heel Cook Book. a Collection of Favorite Recipes icon
(1940)

A Tryon Palace Trifle; Or, Eighteenth Century Cookery

Providence Specialties icon 
Goldsboro, Wayne County

Old-Time Recipes From the Nu-Wray Inn Burnsville, North Carolina
Yancey County

A Taste of the Past: Early Foodways of the Albemarle Region 1585-1830. February 9, 1991-August 18, 1991 icon

North Carolina's Historic Restaurants and Their Recipes icon

Coastal Carolina Cookbook icon

Smokehouse Ham, Spoon Bread & Scuppernong Wine: The Folklore and Art of Southern Appalachian Cooking

Carolina Sunshine: Then and Now

North Carolina & Old Salem Cookery

Red Pepper Fudge and Blue Ribbon Biscuits: Favorite Recipes and Stories from North Carolina State Fair Winners

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Ohio

Cincinnati Recipe Treasury: The Queen City's Culinary Heritage icon
"Every page speaks of the book's authenticity, containing historical anecdotes, celebrity comments, collectible line drawings of the city. For Cincinnatians-at-heart living elsewhere, for visitors who enjoyed the city's hospitality, for all genuine Cincinnatians, what better way to remember the Queen City than through her friendly and surprisingly imaginative kitchens."

I'll Cook When Pigs Fly......and They Do in Cincinnati: Bits & Bites of Queen City Cuisine icon
"See how pigs really do fly in Cincinnati, then check out these unique recipes -- truly a new twist on some old favorites. Lots of fun trivia, facts and quotes about Cincinnati. Awesome photography by award-winning Cincinnati photographers. The cover is by Pulitzer Prize Winner Jim Borgman. Benefits various community projects."

A Taste of Ohio History: A Guide to Historic Eateries and Their Recipes icon
"From a list of over 200 dining establishments in Ohio, Debbie Nunley and Karen Jane Elliott have selected approximately 100 restaurants for the second volume of the popular A Taste of History "TM" series. The authors focus on restaurants of significant historical interest. Some of these are inns, taverns, and roadside hostelries that have been in business for many years at the same site. Others -- former doctor's offices, mills, firehouses, and barns -- have been converted from other uses but still retain their original flavor. In addition to capturing the historical ambience for the reader, this guidebook serves as a cookbook. Each entry includes two or three recipes from the featured restaurant, so readers can reproduce their favorite dishes. There is something here to suit everyone, whether their taste runs to haute cuisine or simple country fare."

Plain and Happy Living: Amish Recipes and Remedies icon
"Byler, an Old Order Amish from Middlefield, Ohio, offers an autobiographical medicine diary and recipe book, that's been over 50 years in the making. Here are recipes for general tonics, poultices, plasters, and remedies for specific ills, instructions for making soap, furniture polish, glue, and varnish remover, plus recipes for everything from cherry pie to Rivvel Soup. Illustrations."

Centennial Buckeye Cook Book
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By any standard the Centennial Buckeye Cook Book was the most important cookbook to have originated in Ohio in the nineteenth century. It included more than three hundred pages of good recipes for jellies and jams, soups and sauces, fruits and vegetables, meats, poultry and fish, and confectionery, cakes and pastry, and many more. It was, however, much more than just a cookbook. Some editions featured information about medicine and the chemistry of food, how to do the laundry, how to make icehouses, hints for the sick and, most unusual, hints for the well. The book was a reflection of home life in Ohio and America before the twentieth century totally swept aside rural American life styles.

"The first edition of the Centennial Buckeye Cook Book was published in 1876. Between 1876 and 1905, a total of thirty-two editions of the cookbook were published, and more than one million copies sold. The book began as a project of the Marysville, Ohio, First Congregational Church when the women of the church decided to publish a cookbook in order to raise money to build a parsonage. Their effort launched a cookbook that rapidly became one of the most popular publications of nineteenth-century America. This is the first reprint of the original 1876 edition."

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Oklahoma

Mrs. Meler's Menus and Recipes (Oklahoma College for Women Chickasha, Oklahoma) icon
Circa 1920

Our Country Cookin' icon
Grady County Junior Social Workers, 1985

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Oregon

New! Who's Cookin' in Josephine County

The Oregon Trail Cookbook: a Historical View of Cooking, Traveling and Surviving on the Trail icon

Prize Winning Tillamook Whole Milk Cheese Recipes: Vol VIII icon

A Taste of Oregon icon

Brewed in the Pacific Northwest: a History of Beer-Making in Oregon and Washington icon

Oregon Trail Cooking (Exploring History Through Simple Recipes)
Grades 3-6. "If readers like their history served up on a plate, then this series is for them. Historical narrative is blended with recipes of the time, thus giving glimpses of the period while introducing traditional foods of hungry cowboys, frontier families, and intrepid explorers of the 1800s. An editor's note explains that, "Although based on historical foods, recipes have been modernized and simplified for today's young cooks." Lewis and Clark draws clear connections from history to food by utilizing passages from Lewis's account of the journey. Foods and preparations follow the expedition's travels through various regions and include meals that are indigenous to the countryside. The favorite will probably be Cowboy Cooking. Heavily illustrated with photographs and complete with recipes for standard fare including biscuits, beans, and beef, this book gives readers a real sense of life on the dusty trail. There's even a section on etiquette and the cowboy "sweet tooth." Oregon Trail, the weakest of the three, intersperses recipes and historical information less smoothly. Perhaps it's the quirks of layout, but the placement of a lemonade recipe opposing the page giving an overview of the ill-fated Donner Party seems incongruous. Still, all three titles are visual delights that include many photographs and period illustrations."

Telegram Conservation Cook Book icon
Portland, 1917

Wagon Wheel Kitchens: Food on the Oregon Trail icon

The Way We Ate: Pacific Northwest Cooking, 1843-1900 icon

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Pennsylvania

New! The Rumford Complete Cook Book + Handwritten Recipes icon

New! Bucks (the Artists' County) Cooks: a Gourmet's Guide to Estimable Comestibles With Pictures icon

New! The Lancaster County Farm Cookbook icon

The Bounty of Chester County Cookbook, 1682-1982 icon

Best of Amish Cooking: Traditional and Contemporary Recipes Adapted From the Kitchens and Pantries of Old Order Amish Cooks icon

Sauerkraut Yankees: Pennsylvania Dutch Foods & Foodways

The Bedford Village Cook Book icon

A Book of Favorite Recipes Contributed By Presbyterian Churches of Perry and Juniata Counties icon

City Tavern Cookbook: More Than Two Hundred Years of Classic Recipes From America's First Gourmet Restaurant icon

Pennsylvania Dutch Cook Book of Fine Old Recipes Compiled From Tried and Tested Recipes Made Famous and Handed Down By the Early Dutch Settlers in Pennsylvania icon

Victorian Thymes & Pleasures: A Community Cookbook by the Junior League of Williamsport

Rum Punch & Revolution: Taverngoing & Public Life in Eighteenth Century Philadelphia icon
"In Rum Punch and Revolution, Thompson shows how the public houses provided a setting in which Philadelphians from all walks of life revealed their characters and ideas as nowhere else. He takes the reader into the cramped confines of the colonial bar room, describing the friendships, misunderstandings, and conflicts which were generated among the city's drinkers, and investigates the profitability of running a tavern in a city which, until independence, set maximum prices on the cost of drinks and services in its public houses. Taverngoing, Thompson writes, fostered a sense of citizenship that influenced political debate in colonial Philadelphia and became an issue in the city's revolution. Opinionated and profoundly undeferential taverngoers did more than drink; they forced their political leaders to consider whether and how public opinion could be represented in the counsels of a newly independent nation."

A Taste of Pennsylvania History: A Guide to Historic Eateries and Their Recipes

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Rhode Island

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South Carolina

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Best of the Best from South Carolina ...
"It is said that South Carolina has an unmatchable charm that stretches from Historic Charleston and the coastal beaches all the way to the beautiful Upcountry mountain region. And her cuisine is equally charming. South Carolina is famous for such dishes as She-Crab Soup, Oyster Purlo, Huguenot Torte, Cheese Bennes and Carolina Red Rice and these are just a sampling of the 400 or so recipes included in these pages."

Louis Osteen's Charleston Cuisine: Recipes from a Lowcountry Chef

Bittle En' T'Ing': Gullah Cooking With...

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Two Hundred Years of Charleston Cooking

Grace the Table : Stories and Recipes from My Southern Revival

The Carolina Rice Kitchen: The African Connection

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A Colonial Plantation Cookbook: The Receipt Book of Harriott Pinckney Horry, 1770 icon

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Tennessee

New! Miss Mary's Down-Home Cooking: Traditional Recipes From Lynchburg, Tennessee icon

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