I volunteered at my church's used book sale yesterday. One of the advantages of doing this is that I get to the goodies before the used book sellers do. (They are amazing to watch as they scoop up armfuls of books.) I found a vintage 1943 Joy of Cooking and paid $1 for it. Pretty good condition, with some writing in the margins, worth $1. It wasn't until I sat down with it during a lull in the cashiering. The sucker was autographed by Irma Rombauer herself!
I volunteered at my church's used book sale yesterday. One of the advantages of doing this is that I get to the goodies before the used book sellers do. (They are amazing to watch as they scoop up armfuls of books.) I found a vintage 1943 Joy of Cooking and paid $1 for it. Pretty good condition, with some writing in the margins, worth $1. It wasn't until I sat down with it during a lull in the cashiering. The sucker was autographed by Irma Rombauer herself!
Had to gloat, Cindy
Wooo hooo! Some folks just don't know what they are "getting rid of" (or don't care). Great find at a great price! Congrats!
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I volunteered at my church's used book sale yesterday. One of the advantages of doing this is that I get to the goodies before the used book sellers do. (They are amazing to watch as they scoop up armfuls of books.) I found a vintage 1943 Joy of Cooking and paid $1 for it. Pretty good condition, with some writing in the margins, worth $1. It wasn't until I sat down with it during a lull in the cashiering. The sucker was autographed by Irma Rombauer herself!
Had to gloat, Cindy
Great find. I'm trying to avoid all cookbook sections everywhere. You done good Cindy.
I volunteered at my church's used book sale yesterday. One of the advantages of doing this is that I get to the goodies before the used book sellers do. (They are amazing to watch as they scoop up armfuls of books.) I found a vintage 1943 Joy of Cooking and paid $1 for it. Pretty good condition, with some writing in the margins, worth $1. It wasn't until I sat down with it during a lull in the cashiering. The sucker was autographed by Irma Rombauer herself!
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I volunteered at my church's used book sale yesterday. One of the advantages of doing this is that I get to the goodies before the used book sellers do. (They are amazing to watch as they scoop up armfuls of books.) I found a vintage 1943 Joy of Cooking and paid $1 for it. Pretty good condition, with some writing in the margins, worth $1. It wasn't until I sat down with it during a lull in the cashiering. The sucker was autographed by Irma Rombauer herself!
Had to gloat, Cindy
Great find. I'm trying to avoid all cookbook sections everywhere. You done good Cindy.
Michael
Call it pent-up demand. I did get 4 other cookbooks plus two novels at the book sale yesterday. The other cookbook purchases were:
Japanese Cooking: A Simple Art Craig Claiborne's Favorites, vol 1 & 2 Helen Chen's Chinese Home Cooking
I think the autographed Joy was an estate donation to the book sale. It belonged to the mother of a church member who died in the last year. This was the first time since I've been here in Seattle that the book sale had a good number of decent cookbooks.
Japanese Cooking: A Simple Art Craig Claiborne's Favorites, vol 1 & 2 Helen Chen's Chinese Home Cooking
I think you'll find Helen Chen's book to be quite practical. She is a daughter of Joyce Chen, who started a restaurant in Cambridge (Fresh Pond), MA back in the 50's, I think, and went on to become quite famous. The book does not tell you how to cook restaurant style, but rather gives home kitchen recipes of the sort you would find in a Chinese-American home. There are some shortcuts that don't hurt the finished product and some substitutions noted for unusual ingredients, but again nothing that detracts from the dish. You might be pleasantly surprised at how easy the sweet and sour spareribs and the spareribs in black bean sauce are to make. But do try some of the recipes you aren't immediately familiar with. Many have a Shanghai tilt, and that's all to the good.
There are other "Chinese-American" home cooking books. I like the stories and the recipes in Ken Hom's the best, but Chen's is a good one, too. -aem
I volunteered at my church's used book sale yesterday. One of the advantages of doing this is that I get to the goodies before the used book sellers do. (They are amazing to watch as they scoop up armfuls of books.) I found a vintage 1943 Joy of Cooking and paid $1 for it. Pretty good condition, with some writing in the margins, worth $1. It wasn't until I sat down with it during a lull in the cashiering. The sucker was autographed by Irma Rombauer herself!
Had to gloat, Cindy
Wooo hooo! Some folks just don't know what they are "getting rid of" (or don't care). Great find at a great price! Congrats!
That particular edition of _JoC_ has been on my wish list for a looooong time, IIRC it's the one that has all the WWII ration recipes (I collect WWII - related food print phemera). The ocassional copies I see for sale are fairly expensive...so yep, it's a GREAT find.
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I volunteered at my church's used book sale yesterday. One of the advantages of doing this is that I get to the goodies before the used book sellers do. (They are amazing to watch as they scoop up armfuls of books.) I found a vintage 1943 Joy of Cooking and paid $1 for it. Pretty good condition, with some writing in the margins, worth $1. It wasn't until I sat down with it during a lull in the cashiering. The sucker was autographed by Irma Rombauer herself!
