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Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. **Bundle Up & Save On Postage** Decorated green hard cover is a reproduction of original edition in dust jacket. Jacket has light shelf and edge wear, decorated end pages, text is without flaw. 5.5 X 8 128 pages, published 1972. This special edition of The Cook Not Mad, a reprint of Canada's first cookbook, has been prepared for Diana Sweets Limited, Toronto's longest established restaurateurs, to commemorate their 60th Anniversary in 1972. Hand-written Christmas wishes from Roy Abrahamson (publisher) laid in. A reprint of Canada's first cookbook published in 1831 to which have been added recipes for present-day use and explanatory notes. As well as being a "first" this book offers an opportunity to peek through the kitchen window at how Canadian people lived almost 200 years ago. Important too is the fact that the book is so readable. You will delight in the turn of phrase, the literary flavour, and the good recipes. …

Reprint ed. Hardback small octavo, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), pictorial cover, adverts on endpapers, facsimile title page, few single-colour drawings, minor edgewear jacket. 128 pp. (This copy: Cherry Tree Press, 1976.) This historic American cookbook by Roy Abrahamson was first published in 1830, and this reprint has adaptations of the old recipes (to use readily-available current ingredients, and have been tested in modern kitchens). The remedies and potions are based on knowledge of 1830, and are interesting to read, but should not be used without the advice of a physician. This book tells us how Americans lived 150 years ago, in the time when America was young. A reading cookbook rather than a "how to" cookbook.…