![High Living: Recipes from Southern Climes. Compiled by L. L. McLaren. Preface by Edward H. Hamilton and Decorations by W.S. Wright. Published for the Benefit of The Telegraph Hill Neighborhood Association [by]..](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/330/959/1586959330.0.l.jpg)
High Living: Recipes from Southern Climes. Compiled by L. L. McLaren. Preface by Edward H. Hamilton and Decorations by W.S. Wright. Published for the Benefit of The Telegraph Hill Neighborhood Association [by]..
by [Telegraph Hill Neighborhood Association]; [Linie Loyall McLaren]
San Francisco, Cal: Paul Elder & Company; [Printed at the Tomoyé Press], 1907. Squarish octavo (21.5 x 17 cm.), 58, [3] pages. Illustrated; printed throughout in green and black. Index. ~ SECOND EDITION. This second edition appeared in 1907 to raise funds for victims of the 1906 earthquake. An unusual community cookbook, originally published two years prior to San Francisco’s Great Earthquake and Fire of 1906, on behalf of a neighborhood atop one of the city’s original seven hills.... Read More
Offered by Rabelais: Fine Books on Food & Drink
Drinking in Vogue, with drawings by Nigel Paige
by McNulty, Henry; James Beard (intro); Irving Penn (jacket photo)
New York: The Vendome Press, 1979. Octavo (22 x 16.5 cm.), 155 pages. Illustrated with drawings by Nigel Paige. FIRST EDITION. A stylish yet odd bar book from British Vogue columnist Henry McNulty. A series of essays on individual wines and spirits, with recipes for various mixed drinks within the narrative. The narratives are delightful, ranging from reminiscence of the author's first encounters with alcohol to some herb-based medicinal drinks of the past. From Sherry Flips, to Fishhouse Punch,... Read More
Offered by Rabelais: Fine Books on Food & Drink
A small archive of ephemera related to this classic San Francisco Restaurant
by [Menu archive – Old Poodle Dog Restaurant (San Francisco, Cal.)]
San Francisco, 1938. Convolute of various ephemeral pieces produced by San Francisco's first French restaurant, originally opened in 1849. This small archive includes menus, postcards, wine lists, business cards, and labels for various proprietary wines and liquors. More than fifty different pieces in all. A few of the pieces are for Camille's Restaurant, which was run by Camille Mailhebau - one of the Poodle Dog's owners - after the Poodle Dog closed in 1922, a victim of Prohibition. The... Read More
Offered by Rabelais: Fine Books on Food & Drink
Mid-Day Meal, Hotel St. Catherine, Avalon, Santa Catalina Island. July 30, 1919
by [Menu – Hotel St. Catherine (Santa Catalina, Calif.)]
Avalon, Santa Catalina Island, Calif, 1919. Menu (17.6 x 13.5 cm.), [2] pages. A menu for this historic resort hotel on Santa Catalina Island. The Hotel St. Catherine was born of a disastrous fire of 1915, during which the Banning home burnt to the ground, taking much of Avalon with it. The Banning family built the original Hotel on the site of the fire, opening on June 28, 1918, a bit more than a year before this menu was... Read More
Offered by Rabelais: Fine Books on Food & Drink
Breakfast Menu
by [Menu – Pine Inn, Carmel-by-the-Sea (Carmel, Ca.)]
[Carmel, Ca: the restaurant, circa, 1937. Menu (17.5 x 13.5 cm.), [4] pages on cream color laid paper. Wood block illustration to front panel. A breakfast menu from the dining room of the first hotel built in beautiful Carmel-by-the-Sea in 1889. The Pine Inn still operates at its original location, a few blocks from the Carmel Beach on Ocean Avenue, with the dining room now an outpost of the Il Fornaio group of Italian restaurants. This menu offers three... Read More
Offered by Rabelais: Fine Books on Food & Drink
Collection of menus from Chicago's grand hotel
by [Menu collection – Palmer House (Chicago, Ill.)]
Chicago, Ill: the hotel, 1904. Thirty-two menus and one related item (various sizes), with various pagination. A collection of early menus from Chicago's historic Palmer House, which until the recent Covid pandemic, was the oldest continuously operating hotel in America. It was the first hotel in the city with elevators, and the first with electric lights and telephones in the rooms. The original hotel opened in September 1870, but burnt the following year during the Great Fire. The new... Read More
Offered by Rabelais: Fine Books on Food & Drink
Society of Colorado Pioneers, First Annual Banquet and Re-Union, at The "Windsor", Denver, January 25th, 1881
by [Menu – Society of Colorado Pioneers (Denver, Col.)]
Denver: [publisher not identified], 1881. Menu and program (16 x 9 cm.), two separate cards, printed versos and rectos, [4] pages. Illustrated. Printed menu and program of the Society's first annual banquet held January 25, 1881, at the Windsor Hotel. The Society of Colorado Pioneers was founded in 1872 to recognize and assist those who had arrived in Colorado earlier than 1861, which effectively meant during the three-year period (1858 through 1861) when Colorado was still part of the... Read More
Offered by Rabelais: Fine Books on Food & Drink
Déjeuner dinatoire du 14 Février 1916
by [Menu – Imperial Court of Austria]; The Prime Minister of Austria Hungary, Count Carl Sturgkh
[Vienna, Austria], 1916. Broadsheet menu, (16.5 x 12 cm.), pasted onto a card backing. The menu bears the blind-stamped armorial crest of Austria-Hungary. At the time of this dinner, the arch-conservative Prime Minister Carl Graf Sturgkh, was ruling alone, having dissolved both the provincial assembly, and the Austrian Rechstrat. Eight months after this meal, Sturgkh was assassinated. The meal is simple but elegant: Oglio en tasse, turbot a l'amirale, selle de veau Godard, Chaudfroid a la Diane, Artichauts a... Read More
Offered by Rabelais: Fine Books on Food & Drink
La Colomba
by [Menu - Surrealist]; Mesens, E.L.T.
Venezia [Venice, Italy]: La Colomba, 1962. Single-folded menu, (13 x 13 inches), with screen printed typo-pictorial design in green, bland, and orange. Verso printed in the same colors with food offerings and prices. A menu designed by the Belgian surrealist E.L.T. Mesens, probably created for the design contest of famed Venice art bistro La Colomba. Signed "Mesens 62" in the lower left-hand corner, and further inscribed in 1964 by Mesens to his long-time friend and accomplice, the surrealist jazz... Read More
Offered by Rabelais: Fine Books on Food & Drink
Abendessen, zu Ehren Seiner Majestat des Kaisers von Aithiopien, gegeben vom Ministerprasidenten des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen und Frau Arnold. Schloss Benrath, 11 November 1954
by [Menu – Diplomatic]; Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia
Benrath [Dusseldorf, Germany], 1954. Single fold menu, (16.5 x 10 cm.), edged in gold. With the crest of North Rhine-Westphalia. Menu for a diplomatic dinner given by Karl Arnold, the Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia, for the Emperor of Ethiopia, Haile Selassie. The dinner was given at the Pleasure Palace of Benrath, in Dusseldorf. It has been proposed as a Unesco World Heritage Site. Dishes served at the dinner included: Austern-Cocktail, Doppelte Kraftbruhe, Ostender Steinbuttschnitte, Kalbsmedallon, Fr. Ananas -... Read More
Offered by Rabelais: Fine Books on Food & Drink
Anglo-Australasian Steam Navigation Company, Limited, S.S. Port Chalmers, Wm. Milburn & Co. (London)
by [Menu – Steamships; Anglo-Australasian Steam Navigation Company, Limited; S.S. Port Chalmers; Wm. Milburn & Co. (London)]
London: Wm. Milburn & Co, 1892. Bi-fold menu (15 x 10.5 cm.), [4] pages. Printed in red, gold and blue, with menu handwritten. Menu for the voyage of the S.S. Port Chalmers, dated in ink on the front panel, "16/10/92". The internal page-spread includes the handwritten menu items including, "Giblet Soup, Boiled Turbot … , Sheep Head and Brains, Roast Turkey & Breast…, Boiled Beef & Carrots, Baked and Boiled Potatoes, French Beans and Turnip, Plum Pudding & Sweet... Read More
Offered by Rabelais: Fine Books on Food & Drink
Seventh Anniversary... Social Festival at the Quincy House, Wednesday Evening, Dec. 11, 1950. Bill of Fare
by [Menu – Boston Young Men's Total Abstinence Society; Quincy House (Boston, Mass.)]
Boston, Mass: Propeller Press, 142 Washington St, 1850. Bi-fold menu (21 x 13.5 cm.), [4] pages. Illustrated. The Boston Young Men's Total Abstinence Society was formed in 1846. This "Seventh Anniversary" banquet offered an alcohol free menu with Baked Trout in Anchovy Sauce, Mutton Cutlet in Gardner's Sauce, Eels with Tartar Sauce, Mongrel Ducks, seven types of pie or cake, AND then dessert. The final page contains an engraving of Quincy House. The menu is stained, and has some... Read More
Offered by Rabelais: Fine Books on Food & Drink
Complimentary to the Commercial Clubs of Chicago, Cincinnati, and St. Louis... Menu... June 27th, 1885
by Menu – Commercial Club of Boston; Parker House (Boston, Mass.)
Boston: Parker House, 1885. Menu on silk (31 x 15 cm.), printed recto only, and with hand painted floral ornament. In thick blank card stock, bound with thick pale blue and white silk cord. A banquet menu presented to members of visiting Commercial Clubs of several Midwestern cities. Highlights of the menu include Penobscot Salmon a la Hollandaise, Philadelphia Squab, and a Pistachio Cream Meringue. The unprinted cardstock "boards" are separated neatly at the hinge, but are intended to... Read More
Offered by Rabelais: Fine Books on Food & Drink
Complimentary Banquet Given by the City Government of Boston to the Boards of Trade of the Western Cities at the Revere House, June 9th, 1865
by [Menu - Revere House; Boards of Trade of the Western Cities (Boston, Mass.)]
Boston: the hotel, 1865. Menu, printed on silk (30 x 10.5 cm.), one leaf, printed verso only. Illustrated with an engraving of vignettes of freight transport via ship and train. WITH: Printed envelope (8 x 13 cm.), with an engraving. A handsome menu printed on silk for a banquet celebrating the Boards of Trade of the Western Cities, given by the City of Boston at the Revere Hotel. Revere House was one of the city's leading hotels, hosting guests... Read More
Offered by Rabelais: Fine Books on Food & Drink
![December 25, 1905. Christmas Dinner, 2 p.m. Montgomery-Shoshone Mine. [WITH:] Thanks Giving, November 20th, 1905. The Montgomery Cafe](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/306/610/1575610306.0.l.jpg)
December 25, 1905. Christmas Dinner, 2 p.m. Montgomery-Shoshone Mine. [WITH:] Thanks Giving, November 20th, 1905. The Montgomery Cafe
by [Menu – Death Valley Mining]; Montgomery-Shoshone Mine (Death Valley, Nevada)
[Bullfrog, Nye County, Nevada], 1905. Two broadsheet menus (26 x 13.5 cm.), [1] page, each. Illustrated. Two holiday menus, for Thanksgiving and Christmas of 1905, from the height of the Nevada Gold Rush. The Christmas menu, assembled by Robert Brogelman, Chef, included Blue Point Oysters, Mock Turtle Soup, Lobster Mayonaise, Oyster Fritters, English Plum Pudding, Malaga Grapes, Hennesy 3 Star Brandy, and Josyni Key West Cigars. The Thanksgiving menu included Roast Young Turkey a la Malcolm MacDonald, Pumpkin Pie,... Read More
Offered by Rabelais: Fine Books on Food & Drink
37th Division Mothers and Wives Club 4th Annual Spring Banquet: Seneca Hotel, Columbus April 23, 1947
by [Menu – 37th Division Mothers and Wives Club (Columbus, Ohio)]
[Columbus, Ohio: the club], 1947. Menu, folded in ribbon-tied wrappers (15 x 11.5 cm.), [4] pages, plus wrappers. Mimeograph printed menu and program for the Mothers and Wives Club of the US Army 37th Division. The banquet was held at Columbus, Ohio's Seneca Hotel. The booklet contains the menu (a thoroughly mid-century midwestern affair with Fruit Cup, Well-brown Fried Chicken, Bon Ton Salad with French Dressing, and Strawberry Ice Cream, among other items), and notes "group singing", invocations, presentations...... Read More
Offered by Rabelais: Fine Books on Food & Drink
![[Hand-drawn watercolor menu] en honneur de S.A.R. Le Prince Maha Valiravudh. Prince Royal de Siam... Burapha Palace, Fevriar 14, 1903](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/457/043/1026043457.0.l.jpg)
[Hand-drawn watercolor menu] en honneur de S.A.R. Le Prince Maha Valiravudh. Prince Royal de Siam... Burapha Palace, Fevriar 14, 1903
by [Menu – Royalty]; La Prince Maha Valiravudh, Prince Royal of Siam
Bangkok, [Thailand], 1903. Die-cut, pen and ink, and watercolor menu (17 x 13 cm.). Text in printed in French on the verso and in Thai on the recto. The fanciful menu for a dinner in honor of Prince Maha Valiravudh of Siam, depicts a royal procession. Printed fare, includes both Western and Thai dishes, including: Dindon Froid, Oie Rotie Froide, Aspci de Foie Gras, Jambon d'Yorck, Petits Fours, and Creme Glacées, on the Western side; and Kanom Buang, de... Read More
Offered by Rabelais: Fine Books on Food & Drink
Christmas, 1883. Narragansett Hotel, Providence, R.I.
by [Menu – Narragansett Hotel (Providence, R.I.)]
Providence, R.I.: [the hotel], 1883. Bi-fold menu on silk (16 x 10.7 cm.), [2] pages. Menu for a Christmas dinner at the Narragansett Hotel in Providence, R.I. Courses include Soup, Hors D'Oueuvres, Fish, Releves, Entrees, Roasts, Cold Meats, Vegetables, Mayonnaise, Game, and Dessert. The Narragansett Hotel, "conducted by Chapin & Robinson, is one of the largest, grandest, best furnished, and most satisfactorily kept hotels in the world" (King's Pocket Book of Providence, 1882). Two panels of menu on pearl-colored... Read More
Offered by Rabelais: Fine Books on Food & Drink
Menu for Chanterelle, with original offset-printed artwork by Robert Rauschenberg
by [Menu – Rauschenberg, Robert]; Chanterelle (New York City)
New York: American Menu Printing, 2004. Offset printed menu on folded thick card stock (32 x 24 cm., folded). One of the later but most sought after in the famous series of arists' menus. With the names of the restaurant and artist printed in small letters on the rear panel of the menu, and a photograph of the fire hydrant painted by Robert Rauschenberg on the front panel. The interior contains the menu for November 22nd through December 18th,... Read More
Offered by Rabelais: Fine Books on Food & Drink
![The Club of Cunning Cooks. [with:] The Lenten Council of Ten](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/595/434/764434595.0.l.1.jpg)
The Club of Cunning Cooks. [with:] The Lenten Council of Ten
by [Menus]
Philadelphia, 1877. Two printed menus for two different dinners. Philadelphia’s so-called "Council of Ten" was a small group of wealthy men active in politics and municipal affairs who periodically gathered for dinners. Both menus print excerpts of dialogue from the plays of William Shakespeare to describe various items on the bill. For instance, under Boned Chicken is the caption "Alas, poor hurt fowl" from the second act of Much Ado About Nothing. For Potato Salad there's a quote from... Read More
Offered by Rabelais: Fine Books on Food & Drink
Abendessen, zu Ehren Seiner Kaiserlichen Majestat Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Schinaschah von Iran und Ihrer Majestat Kaiserin Soraya gegeben vom Ministerprasidenten des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen und Frau Arnold. Schloss Benrath, 1 March 1955
by [Menu – Diplomatic]; Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Shah-in-Shah of Iran
Benrath [Dusseldorf, Germany], 1955. Single fold menu, (16.5 x 10 cm.), edged in gold. With the crest of North Rhine-Westphalia. Menu for a diplomatic dinner given by Karl Arnold, the Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia, for the Shah of Iran, Reza Pahlavi. The dinner was given at the Pleasure Palace of Benrath, in Dusseldorf. It has been proposed as a Unesco World Heritage Site. Dishes served at the dinner included: Gtruffelte Ganseleber, Rinderkraftbruhe mit Mark, Sauerlander Bachforelle, Gespicktes Hirschkotelett,... Read More
Offered by Rabelais: Fine Books on Food & Drink
Bill of Fare. Wednesday Evening, May 26th, 1886
by [Menus - Freemasons (Oneonta, N.Y.)]; John L. Lewis, Chapter no. 229, R.A.M. [Royal Arch Masons]
Oneonta, N.Y., 1886. Menu (21.5 x 14 cm.), one leaf, printed recto only. Illustrated with two small, engraved vignettes at head and foot of sheet. An attractively designed menu for a dinner of the Royal Arch Masons in the central New York State city of Oneonta. The menu items are interesting, with a strong representation of clams, oysters, lobsters, salmon, sardines, boiled ham, corned beef, pickled tongue, pickled tripe, pickled (more) clams, and of course, ice cream, strawberries, and... Read More
Offered by Rabelais: Fine Books on Food & Drink
None Such Mindreader
by Merrell-Soule Co. (Syracuse, N.Y.)
Syracuse, N.Y.: Merrell-Soule Co, 1898. Booklet, stapled in wrappers (12.5 x 10 cm.), 24 pages. Color-illustrated. Evident FIRST EDITION; a shorter edition of 15 pages was issued in 1925. A promotional booklet advertising products in the None Such line. Ten pages of the "Mindreader" game are followed by seven pages of recipes for dishes made with None Such products, including soup, mince meat, and pumpkin, followed by pages of premiums, mostly games, dolls toys, silverware, etc., which could be... Read More
Offered by Rabelais: Fine Books on Food & Drink
Rangoon International Cook Book. By the Woman's Society of Christian Service of the Methodist English Church, Rangoon, Burma
by [Methodist English Church (Rangoon, Burma). Woman's Society of Christian Service]
Rangoon, Burma: [The Society], 1956. Octavo (23 x 14.5 cm.), [2], 263 pages. Advertisements. Stated Second Edition, enlarged, following the original issue of 1954. Edition statement from the foreword. A substantial missionary cookbook, with 654 recipes, many attributed. An additional 120 recipes appear in this second edition. Includes interesting short sections on cereals, fruits and vegetables available in Rangoon markets, and a practical nutrition guide, titled, "How Shall We Feed Our Babies?" The recipes are a mixture of American... Read More
Offered by Rabelais: Fine Books on Food & Drink
White Trash Cooking
by Mickler, Ernest Matthew; [Jonathan Williams]
Highlands, NC: The Jargon Society, 1986. Issued as Jargon 101. Large spiral-bound octavo (23.5 x 19 cm.), 134, [6] pages. Blank pages at rear for additional recipes. FIRST EDITION. A cookbook often seen as satirical, but which is in fact a genuinely appreciative work of culinary Americana. One of the more unusual titles in Jargon's run and its only bestseller. Publisher Jonathan Williams, reveals how one might "explain what these recipes and snapshots were all about to some grand... Read More
Offered by Rabelais: Fine Books on Food & Drink