A Commonplace book of cookery : a collection of proverbs, anecdotes, opinions and obscure facts on food, drink, cooks, cooking, dining, diners & dieters, dating from ancient times to the present / compiled by Robert Grabhorn ; and with a preface by M. F. K. Fisher.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Grabhorn, Robert.

Fisher, M. F. K. (Mary Frances Kennedy), 1908-1992.

Laurie Burrows Grad Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Chef Fritz Blank Culinary Archive and Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Nick Malgieri Culinary Archive and Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Culinary Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Food--Quotations, maxims, etc.

Food.

Cooking & dining.

Cooking--Miscellanea.

Cooking.

Cooking--History.

History.

Genre:

Trivia and miscellanea.

Penn Provenance:

Grad, Laurie Burrows (donor)

Blank, Fritz (bookplate) (donor) (Blank Collection copy)

Malgieri, Nick (donor) (Malgieri Collection copy)

Physical Description:

viii, 175 pages, 3 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Other Title:

Title on dust-jacket: Robert Grabhorn's common-place book of cookery

Place of Publication:

San Francisco : North Point Press, 1985.

Contents:

Of cooks & cooking

Of eating

Of drinking

Of breaking fast

Of snacks & refreshments

Of beverages

Of appetite

Of appetizers

Of dining

Of dining out

Of bread & butter

Of soups & salads

Of wine & beer

Of sauces & seasonings

Of fish & fowl

Of meats

Of vegetables

Of fruit & cheese

Of fingerbowls

Of feasts & feasting

Of diet

Of nightcaps

Notes:

Text printed within single-ruled decorated border.

"This book is reproduced from the limited edition of 425 copies printed and published in 1975 by the Arion Press, San Francisco, under the direction of Andrew Hoyem ... The types are Garamont, Narciss, and Typo Upright; the borders are Fournier; the vignettes are from wood engravings in 'Ecole Des Cuisinières, Paris, c. 1870."--Colophon.

Local Notes:

Presented to the Penn Libraries by Laurie Burrows Grad.

Blank Collection copy has dust-jacket retained.

Blank Collection copy has bookplate of Chef Fritz Blank.

Nick Malgieri Culinary Archive and Library copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2015 by Nick Malgieri.

Malgieri Collection copy: dust jacket retained.

ISBN:

0865471819

OCLC:

12163951

Online:

Laurie Burrows Grad Collection Home Page