Betty Crocker's Dinner in a Dish, first printing, 1965

Betty Crocker’s New Boys and Girls Cookbook, 4th printing, 1965

Stories about Sally, Eleanor Thomas, 1949

Betty Crocker’s Dinner for Two Cookbook, fourth printing, 1974

1963 reprint of American Cookery, Amelia Simmons, 1796

Copy of A Treatise on Adulteration of Food…, Friedrich Accum, 1820

Rawleigh’s Good Health Guide, The Rawleigh Company, 1933

Family Food Supply: What to Buy and Why, Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, 1934

Old and New British Recipes, Compiled by Mrs. Adelaide M. Owen, British War Relief Association of Northern California, 1940

Postcard depicting the New Forum Cafeteria, Chicago, 1943. Reverse states “One of the most beautiful cafeterias in America. Dine in an atmosphere of salon luxury at reasonable prices”

Castle Fare: Featuring Authentic Recipes Served in Hearst Castle, Marjorie Collord and Ann Rotanzi, 1965

The Italian Cookbook, Culinary Arts Institute, Chicago, fourth edition, 1965

The Ozark Pain Killer Cookbook, Kay White Miles

The Art of Cooking with Herbs and Spices, Milo Miloradovich, 1950

Wokcraft: A Stirring Compendium of Chinese Cookery, Charles and Violet Schafer, 1972

The Book of Salads, Sonia Uvezian, fourth printing, 1982

Beard on Bread, James Beard, 1972

The Scots Kitchen, F. Marian McNeill, 11th printing, 1947

Bake Bread!, Hannah Solomon, 1976

Let’s Get Well, 1954 and Let’s Eat Right to Keep Fit, 1965, Adelle Davis. Originally purchased by my grandmother Geraldine Gordon at the House of Nutrition on Lincoln Avenue in San Jose, California.

LIFE Magazine, “Special Issue: Food”, January 3, 1955

The Everlasting Pleasure, Kathleen Ann Smallzried, 1956

American Cookery: Recipes from Walpole, New Hampshire in the year 1812, Reprinted for the Walpole Historical Society, Walpole, New Hampshire