The Times Cook Book --- No. 2. 957 Cooking and other Recipes by California Women .... Brought out by the 1905 series of prize recipe contests in the Los Angeles Times

  • Los Angeles: Times-Mirror Co, 1908
By Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles: Times-Mirror Co, 1908. Octavo, 105, [1] pages. The second printing, with the price of 35 cents on the printed cover. The second in a series of five collections of prize-winning recipes issued under the Los Angeles Times imprint between 1902 and 1917. According to Glozer, this volume was first published in 1908, although others indicate 1905 or '06. This collection offers, according to the front cover, "One Thousand Toothsome Cooking and other Recipes, Including Seventy-nine Old-Time California, Spanish and Mexican Dishes, Recipes of Famous Pioneer Spanish Settlers." Original publisher's coated white boards stamped in black. Soiled, wear to some corners, joints starting, wear to top edge of title page, otherwise near very good. Manuscript recipes to endpapers and other blanks. Scarce. [Cagle 485; Glozer 173; Strehl 11].

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Title

The Times Cook Book --- No. 2. 957 Cooking and other Recipes by California Women .... Brought out by the 1905 series of prize recipe contests in the Los Angeles Times

Author

Los Angeles Times

Condition

Unknown

Publisher

Times-Mirror Co: Los Angeles

Date

1908


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