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

[Johnna Holloway]

In that case, you are supporting a cause and if it's cheap, pick it up.
The prices for an original 1940 run upwards of $100 or more.
Paperback prices vary widely.
(I own at least two editions of it. Gift volumes from years ago.)

Johnnae

On Apr 8, 2010, at 8:24 AM, Sandra Kisner wrote:

>> 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