“NEXT to eating good dinners, a healthy man with a benevolent turn of mind must like, I think, to read about them.” The words are Thackeray’s, and they encourage me, if I need encouragement, in my ...

When Dawn Hudson got word on Jan. 7 that she needed to evacuate her Pacific Palisades home, her cook’s instincts kicked in. Thinking she’d be home the next day, she spent more time gathering ...

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Recipes for the Melting Pot: The Lives of the Settlement Cook Book By Nora L. Rubel Columbia University Press, 232 pages, $28 ...

Cookbooks have been kitchen staples for much longer than you might expect, with some of the oldest cookbooks in the world dating back hundreds and even thousands of years. These texts were not always ...

Click to open image viewer. The Soul Food Cookery cookbook by Inez Y. Kaiser, Revised edition, August 1968. The book is paperback and bound with a white plastic binding comb on the left spine. The ...

The judge on “The Great British Baking Show,” whose new book is “Bliss on Toast,” recommends “The Joy of Cooking” along with M.F.K. Fisher and Elizabeth David: “Both the latter are a real pleasure to ...

The cookery book has every good quality that a book can have. In the first place, it makes a legitimate appeal to the collector, and M. Vicaire and Mr. Hazlitt show what the bibliographer can do with ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Three vintage cookbooks on a background - Static Media / Getty Cookbooks are more than collections of recipes; they live on as ...