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Everyday French cooking for the American home
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In France, where superb cuisine is the rule rather than the exception, everyday cooking - la cuisine bourgeoise - is, on a less expensive, less elaborate scale, as delicate an art as la haute cuisine - the trademark of the world's finest French restaurants. In perfecting this art, French cooks have been guided by the expert culinary advice and recipes of one of the outstanding chefs and cookery teachers of all times - Henri-Paul Pellaprat. Now this great work is available in America.
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Under the sea-wind : a naturalist's picture of ocean life
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Celebrating the mystery and beauty of birds and sea creatures in their natural habitat, Under the Sea-Wind, Rachel Carson's first book and her personal favorite, is the early masterwork of one of America's greatest nature writers. Evoking the special mystery and beauty of the shore and the open sea, its limitless vistas and twilight depths. Carson's astonishingly intimate, unforgettable portrait captures the delicate negotiations of an ingeniously calibrated ecology.
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Secret agent of Japan
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"The startling revelations of a Chinese Intelligence Officer in Manchuria, who was forced to join the Espionage Service of Japan and to aid in establishing their sinister government monopolies in white slavery, drug traffic, and kidnapping"--Cover of dust jacket.
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Our Country Drawing Book
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One drawing book entitled Our Country Drawing Book, by Alfred G. Bauer, published by Sprauge Warner & Company, Chicago, copyright 1903. The front cover shows a young girl sitting at a desk in a classroom, drawing in a book; the lower-left corner bears the series title Bauer Series No.1. The back cover features an image of a can of coffee, labeled "Richelieu, the Finest Product." The book is a promotional piece for the Richelieu brand of canned foods; on the inside front cover the company states "In presenting 'Our Country' Drawing Book, we do so with the assurance that we are adding another educational feature to our advertising methods." The back inside cover shows images of several Richelieu goods. The book contains 16 pages of outline images. It was originally published with tracing paper inserts; only one remains. The image below the tracing paper was meant to be filled in or traced and then filled in. The images include maps of the United States, individual cities, the U.S. Caribbean and Pacific possessions, as well as Nicaragua, Panama (and the proposed canal routes through both countries) and Venezuela. Each of the images includes an advertisement for a Richelieu product. None of the images have been filled in; one of the maps has been traced in pencil. The name "Margaret" is written in ms., in pencil, above one image.
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The Bridgewater and Ellesmere collections : photographic reproductions in monochrome
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Photomechancal prints are mounted with a cover sheet of descriptive text. Some of the photographs are numbered to correspond with their description in A printed Catalogue of the Bridgewater and Ellesmere collections of pictures at Bridgewater House, Cleveland Square, London, published in 1897, others are unnumbered.
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America's favorite food : the story of Campbell Soup Company
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Campbell's origins go back to 1869, when Joseph Campbell and Abraham Anderson created a business in preserved foods. Jams, jellies, fruits, and vegetables in cans were the staples of the company until 1897, when Dr. John T. Dorrance, a nephew of one of the company's executives then working for $7.50 a week, invented condensed soup. Trained as a chemist, Dorrance had also studied cooking with gourmet chefs in Europe and his combined skills proved the key to success. Within twenty years he not only owned the company, but also demonstrated a marketing genius that nearly eclipsed his other talents; selling soup at ten cents a can he was taking in some fifteen million dollars a year by 1915. Douglas Collins narrates the history with gusto, weaving into the company's development interesting facts about the origins of soup itself and about how America's working women (who also remained homemakers) came to rely on convenience foods. Here, too, are insights into the skillful advertising and marketing decisions that have made Campbell Soup Company a model of successful business practice: the adoption of the red and white label (1898), the creation of the Campbell Kids (1904) - who remain fixtures of the company's visual presentation - and the diversification into other products: Pepperidge Farm baked goods, Prego spaghetti sauces, Vlasic pickles, Godiva chocolates and more. By 1962, the Campbell soup can was such an icon of American life that Pop artist Andy Warhol memorialized it in not one but several dozen works of art. And, Collins tells us, Warhol did so at least partly because he had grown up on Campbell's Tomato Soup, which remained a favorite of his. In addition to a special portfolio of Warhol artworks are historical images from the Campbell archives, photographs made for Fortune magazine in 1935 and 1955 by the great photojournalists Margaret Bourke-White and Dan Weiner, and a gallery of newspaper and magazine advertisements, posters, and related products - including two generations of Campbell kid dolls.
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