America's Largest Cookbook Collection

Fun Food Factory by Nanette Newman
c. 1976

   

 Date bait,the younger set's picture cookbook
    Robert H. Loeb, 1962
Weird--wouldn't a pictorial recipe be
designed for the pre-dating set?  

Yesterday I had the privilege of taking a trip through the stacks of the Food & Cookery Collection at Fales Library at NYU.   The collection has approximately 50,000 volumes, 26,000 of which have been catalogued.  I had the privilege of rummaging through the stacks of children's cookbooks on a tour led by the most gracious librarian Marvin Taylor, who oversees this awesome resource and is himself an incredible resource for food and cookery literature.

I got a sneak peek of 101 Classic Cookbooks, edited by the Fales Library, with Mr. Taylor at its helm.  The editors compiled cookbook favorites by such notables as Florence Fabricant, Judith Jones (Julia Child's editor), and Alice Waters.  Taylor launches his introduction with a description of his childhood food memory of onions sauteeing in butter in his grandmother's kitchen.  I can't wait to get my hands on this book!

Coming in October 2012