[Sca-cooks] Martha Washington's Booke of Cookery

Sandra Kisner sjk3 at cornell.edu
Thu Apr 8 05:24:02 PDT 2010


> It's an earlier version. Non annotated.
> 
> The Martha Washington Cook Book by Marie Kimball was published in  
> 1940. It has now, of course, long been out-of-print until this  
> historic 2004 limited edition reprint."
> 
> So skip this Kimball edition and just buy the Hess edited version  
> published by Columbia University Press.
> 
> Johnnae

Useful information.  It wasn't a case of choosing between them, but the 
fact that a copy of the Kimball edition has shown up at our Friends of 
the Library booksale (I'm a presale sorter), and I wondered if it was 
worth picking up.  Sounds like it might be for curiousity's sake, but 
not more.

Sandra



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