1961 Culinary Americana: Cookbooks Published in the Cities and Towns of the United States of America during the Years from 1860 through 1960

Description

First Edition, Publishers' Original Binding, With Dustwrapper

First edition. 

With the original clipped dust wrapper. 

A comprehensive reference detailing one hundred years of American cookbooks (1860-1960), shedding a fascinating light on the history of American cuisine over the century.  

Compiled by Eleanor and Bob Brown. With a foreword by Clifton Fadiman. 

Bob Brown was an American writer and publisher who, together with his second wife Rose, became central figures in the Greenwich Village bohemian arts and culture scene. In the mid-1950s, after Rose died, Bob married his old friend Eleanor Parker. They restarted Roving Eye Press as well as publishing cookbooks, selling rare and unusual books, and publishing works with the Beat poets.