Drink Fair (2 results)

8vo. 110, [2] pp. Illust. title in red & black, numerous text illustrations in red & black by Fred Breen. Colour-illustrated boards, cover art by Breen (minor scuffing, edgewear, minor wear to spine, slight bumping to couple corners), still VG copy, signed by Rector on the Carte du Jour page, from the libraries of Shirley Clemenson Daniel & Eleanore Weinstock, w/ bookplate on ffep. First edition, signed, of this excellent collection of recipes on French cooking by Chef George Rector used by the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. as a promotional book during the 1933 Century of Progress World's Fair in Chicago. (1878-1947) was a restauranter, and food authority, who began his career with Parisian Restaurants, son of Charles Rector who had opened the famed Oyster House in 1884 in Chicago, and operated the Rector's Marine Restaurant at the 1893 Columbian Exposition. George Rector published the year after this his "Dine at home with Rector" with subtitle "A Book on What Men Like, Why They Like It, and How to Cook It," and was columnist for A&P's radio program, as well as their radio program for CBS. Scarce to find in nice condition, and signed. See: Jan Whitaker, Anatomy of a Restaurateur: George Rector, Restaurant-ing through History (2018).…

Six parts in one vol. [12; 4; 4; 20; 18 pp (various paginated & unpaginated).], illustrated throughout with booth diagrams, floorplans, fair display ideas, photo illustrations, 2 mounted silver gelatin photos sized 8 x 10 in. on front & back wrappers, additional paper clippings, and magazine clippings tipped-in. Original purple softcovers silver lettering fro the Boston Food Fair program, w/ the rest mounted & sewn-in by Tremp, w/ red ties at gutter margin (some edgewear, thumbing, minor tears, scuffing, some lifting), still a surprisingly intact Sammelband in G condition despite heavy use. This intriguing Pure Food Fair promotion guide compiled by the noted Swiss-American western food fair display designer and promoter, captures the energy and impact in Colorado, Washington, Massachusetts, and the United Kingdom following the passage of the Pure Food & Drug Act of 1906. Across the United States, and in the UK, there was a tremendous growth of the public's interest in sanitary food manufacturing, packaging, new products, and more importantly booths designed to demonstrate that there products were unadulterated, safe & modern. The Denver Retail Grocers Association, and the Spokane Grocers' Association contracted with the intrepid salesman and show promoter to present "up-to-date, carefully managed, City and State-wide advertised indoor exposition of pure foods, household, electrical, gas, auto, labor-saving appliances, and industrial exhibits of every nature" in the two Western Cities. The 1908 Boston Food Fair was a lavish Progressive Era production, which featured the band and performances of John Philip Sousa to entertain participants and fair-goers. Tremp (b. 1873) first emigrated into Oakland, CA, before setting himself up in Denver, CO until just before World War I, with a focus on "Pure Food" fairs, but after World War I would move back to California, and remained there as a show promoter until the 1950's. No similar copies of the Denver, Spokane, or Boston Food Fair promotional catalogues and prospectuses are located in Worldcat, or, food & drink, or advertising specialty institutional holdings.…