Help identifying a cookbook

Discussion in 'Books' started by Chiquita, Sep 3, 2024.

  1. Chiquita

    Chiquita Well-Known Member

    IMG_5181.jpeg IMG_5180.jpeg IMG_5179.jpeg IMG_5178.jpeg IMG_5177.jpeg We had this cookbook growing up. I think my dad sold it at a garage sale (more than 20 years ago) and i found the same one but without cover at a garage sale a few blocks from our house. It is a green hardcover book. Binding is missing in mine. I am trying to identify so i can try and buy one with the cover. My dad was in the Army and bought this in the 60's. I remember we would make breads and pies from the recipes in this book. My dad has since passed and replacing would bring me great joy. Thanks all. IMG_5181.jpeg
     
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  2. komokwa

    komokwa The Truth is out there...!

    need more clues and bigger pics....
    what's on the last page..?
     
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  3. Chiquita

    Chiquita Well-Known Member

    I am missing front and back cover. The last page of the index ends with letter "v". The condition of the book is not great
     
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  4. Debora

    Debora Well-Known Member

    You're missing more than that if has no title page, table of contents, etc. Why don't you put together titles of each section and use them for an internet search? Oops. Never mind. I just did a search with one "Snacks & Appetizers: 300 Snacks, Appetizers for Entertaining" and identified your book as the Culinary Arts Institute Cookbook. Here's a copy of the 1968 Revised Edition on offer on eBay. If that's not the edition you want, you can do a search on eBay.com or the used book site abebooks.com.

    https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/331097138901

    Debora
     
  5. Bronwen

    Bronwen Well-Known Member

    Looks really comprehensive. Have never seen a cookbook with thumb tabs like a dictionary before. Are the recipes for the cuisine of any particular place?
     
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  6. Chiquita

    Chiquita Well-Known Member

    wow. Thank you so much
     
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  7. Chiquita

    Chiquita Well-Known Member

    I think the cookbook is American
     
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  8. Debora

    Debora Well-Known Member

    The Culinary Arts Institute was in Chicago.

    Debora
     
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  9. pearlsnblume

    pearlsnblume Well-Known Member

    It may be this book but am not sure Culinary Arts Institute Encyclopedia Cookbook.
    Mine has a red cover on it.
     
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  10. pearlsnblume

    pearlsnblume Well-Known Member

  11. Debora

    Debora Well-Known Member

    It was published from 1940 on. There are many editions.

    Debora
     
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  12. pearlsnblume

    pearlsnblume Well-Known Member

  13. Bev aka thelmasstuff

    Bev aka thelmasstuff Colored pencil artist extraordinaire ;)

    I had the green one. May still have it somewhere. I have about 125 cookbooks. Probably time to try selling them. LOL. I stopped collecting them about ten years ago.
     
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  14. pearlsnblume

    pearlsnblume Well-Known Member

    Bev some old cookbooks bring good money. Go for it.
     
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  15. Chiquita

    Chiquita Well-Known Member

    What is your oldest cookbook. That is so cool you have 125 cookbooks
     
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