James Beard's American Cookery (1972)

by James Beard

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Contains over 1,500 recipes for American style cooking

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I'm always astonished by what this book turns out to have in it that is nowhere else: sweet and sour sturgeon, raw apple cake (the best use ever for slightly aged apples in the fruit bowl), on and on. Plus all the great stories. (

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Bizzare piece of ephemera. 105 1 ply white paper towels, 9x11", American Cookery recipes in blue. Box illustration adapted from the Little Brown & company design of Elna Rapp, illustrations of Mary Purcell. (

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Author name	Role	Type of author	Work?	Status
James Beard	—	primary author	all editions	calculated
Thollander, Earl	Illustrator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed

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This book is dedicated to my favorite great ladies of the American kitchen: Eliza Leslie, Mrs. T. J. Crowen, Sarah Tyson Rorer, Fannie Merritt Farmer, Irma Rombauer, Helen Evans Brown, June Platt

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