Vintage Time LIfe Foods Of The World Cookbooks 19 Volumes Hardcover Books
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Vintage Time LIfe Foods Of The World Cookbooks 19 Volumes Hardcover Books
Foods of the World was a series of 27 cookbooks published by Time-Life, beginning in 1968 and extending through the late 1970s, that provided a broad survey of many of the world's major cuisines. The individual volumes were written by well-known experts on the various cuisines and included significant contemporary food writers, including Craig Claiborne, Pierre Franey, James Beard, Julia Child, and M.F.K. Fish...er, and was overseen by food writer Michael Field who died before the series was complete. The series combined recipes with food-themed travelogues in an attempt to show the cultural context from which each recipe sprang.
This set includes 19 large-format, photograph-heavy hardcover books. Spiral companion books NOT included.
Lot includes:-American Cooking : Creole and Acadian-American Cooking : The Eastern Heartland-American Cooking : The Great West-American Cooking : New England-Classic French Cooking-Cooking of the British Isles-Cooking of the Caribbean Islands-Cooking of China-Cooking of India-Cooking of Italy-Cooking of Japan-Cooking of Provincial France-Cooking of Scandinavia-Cooking of Spain and Portugal-Cooking of Vienna's Empire-Middle Eastern Cooking-Pacific and Southeast Asian Cooking-Quintet of Cuisines-Russian Cooking
Foods of the World was a series of 27 cookbooks published by Time-Life, beginning in 1968 and extending through the late 1970s, that provided a broad survey of many of the world's major cuisines. The individual volumes were written by well-known experts on the various cuisines and included significant contemporary food writers, including Craig Claiborne, Pierre Franey, James Beard, Julia Child, and M.F.K. Fish...er, and was overseen by food writer Michael Field who died before the series was complete. The series combined recipes with food-themed travelogues in an attempt to show the cultural context from which each recipe sprang.
This set includes 19 large-format, photograph-heavy hardcover books. Spiral companion books NOT included.
Lot includes:-American Cooking : Creole and Acadian-American Cooking : The Eastern Heartland-American Cooking : The Great West-American Cooking : New England-Classic French Cooking-Cooking of the British Isles-Cooking of the Caribbean Islands-Cooking of China-Cooking of India-Cooking of Italy-Cooking of Japan-Cooking of Provincial France-Cooking of Scandinavia-Cooking of Spain and Portugal-Cooking of Vienna's Empire-Middle Eastern Cooking-Pacific and Southeast Asian Cooking-Quintet of Cuisines-Russian Cooking
