The Fireside Cook Book / A Complete Guide to Fine Cooking for Beginner and Expert Containing 1217 Recipes and Over 400 Color Pictures

Beard, James

Published by Simon and Schuster, New York, 1949

About this Item

1949 date to title page matches 1949 copyright date; NO printing or edition notice to said copyright page, which is correct for a Simon & Schuster first printing as per the publisher's statements of 1937 and 1947. Jacket is price-clipped to front flap bottom corner. In 1946, caterer, chef, and cooking instructor James Beard (1903-1985), who saw his mission as "defend(ing) the pleasure of real cooking and fresh ingredients against the assault of the Jell-O-mold people and the domestic scientists," appeared on a local television show in New York City with a fifteen-minute cooking lesson. That appearance led to a national show on NBC in 1946-1947, the first such program in television history. This is Beard's fourth -- but his first "general" -- cook book. (The 1982 reissue would contract the words "Cook Book" into "Cookbook" -- this is the 1949 original.) 322 pp. including Index. Seller Inventory # 012068

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Fireside Cook Book / A Complete Guide to...

Publisher: Simon and Schuster, New York

Publication Date: 1949

Binding: Hardcover

Illustrator: Illustrations by Alice and Martin Provensen

Condition: Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition: Good

Edition: 1st Edition