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  • The First American Cookbook

    A Facsimile of "American Cookery," 1796

    This facsimile of the first American-written cookbook published in the United States is not only a first in cookbook literature, but a historic document. It reveals the rich variety of food Colonial Americans enjoyed, their tastes, cooking and eating habits, even their colorful language.Author Amelia Simmons worked as a domestic in Colonial America and gathered her cookery expertise from firsthand ... Read more

    $5.39 USD

  • American Cookery

    Series series American Antiquarian Cookbook Collection
    This eighteenth century kitchen reference is the first cookbook published in the U.S. with recipes using local ingredients for American cooks.Named by the Library of Congress as one of the eighty-eight "Books That Shaped America," American Cookery was the first cookbook by an American author published in the United States. Until its publication, cookbooks used by American colonists were British. ... Read more

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  • Audiobook

    Frankenstein

    He Created Life… and Unleashed a Nightmare That Would Not Die

    by Mary Shelley ...
    Narrated by Amelia Watson, Jackson Simmons ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 47 min

    He stole the secret of life… and created something that should never have breathed. In Frankenstein, a brilliant experiment ignites a nightmare of isolation, vengeance, and moral collapse. What begins as a triumph of human ambition becomes a relentless pursuit through darkness, where creator and creation are bound by guilt, rejection, and a fate neither can escape.As this haunting journey unfolds, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • American Cookery

    Series series American Antiquarian Cookbook Collection
    This eighteenth century kitchen reference is the first cookbook published in the U.S. with recipes using local ingredients for American cooks.Named by the Library of Congress as one of the eighty-eight "Books That Shaped America," American Cookery was the first cookbook by an American author published in the United States. Until its publication, cookbooks used by American colonists were British. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • American Cookery

    The Art of Dressing Viands, Fish, Poultry, and Vegetables

    American Cookery: The Art of Dressing Viands, Fish, Poultry, and Vegetables is a landmark culinary work first published in 1796 by Amelia Simmons, recognized as the first known American-authored cookbook. This comprehensive volume offers a fascinating glimpse into the domestic life and foodways of early America, blending practical instruction with a distinctly American sensibility. The book is ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • American Cookery: The Art of Dressing Viands Fish Poultry and Vegetables

    The cookbook features a wide array of recipes, including dishes made with meat, fish, poultry, and vegetables, as well as baked goods and desserts. Simmons’s approach is practical and straightforward, catering to the needs of the everyday cook. Recipes range from soups and stews to roasts, pies, and cakes, with a focus on utilizing locally available ingredients. Notably, the book includes early ... Read more

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  • American Cookery: The First American Cookbook

    Little is known of Amelia Simmons, the author of the first American cookbook, except that she was probably a domestic worker and lacked any formal education. Some assumed that she was a New Englander based on the location of the first editions; however, later editions published around the Hudson River Valley, and the inclusion of several Dutch words in the book, reinforce the belief that Simmons ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • American Cookery (1796)

    THE ART OF DRESSING VIANDS, FISH, POULTRY and VEGETABLES, AND THE BEST MODES OF MAKING PASTES, PUFFS, PIES, TARTS, PUDDINGS, CUSTARDS AND PRESERVES, AND ALL KINDS OF CAKES, FROM THE IMPERIAL PLUMB TO PLAIN CAKE. ADAPTED TO THIS COUNTRY, AND ALL GRADES OF LIFE. "As this treatise is calculated for the improvement of the rising generation of _Females_ in America, the Lady of fashion and fortune will ... Read more

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  • American Cookery

    Little is known of Amelia Simmons, the author of the first American cookbook, except that she was probably a domestic worker and lacked any formal education. Some assumed that she was a New Englander based on the location of the first editions; however, later editions published around the Hudson River Valley, and the inclusion of several Dutch words in the book, reinforce that Simmons was from the ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • American Cookery

    Enriched edition. The Art of Dressing Viands, Fish, Poultry, and Vegetables

    Amelia Simmons' "American Cookery" is a pioneering work in the realm of American culinary literature, merging practicality with an innovative approach to the art of cooking. First published in 1796, it stands as one of the earliest cookbooks to feature distinctly American recipes, emphasizing native ingredients such as corn and pumpkins. The book is notable not only for its straightforward ... Read more

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  • American cookery

    The art of dressing viands, fish, poultry, and vegetables, and the best modes of making pastes, puffs, pies, tarts, puddings, custards, and preserves, and all kinds of cakes, from the imperial plum to plain cake : adapted to this c...

    "First edition, second printing. 48pp. Woodcut decoration. Contemporary wraps (frayed), probably original. This is a perfect copy in superb condition: crisp, entirely untrimmed and wide-margined; a single owner's signature else unmarked and without blemish. Early editions of this work are exceedingly rare. Six copies of the 1796 first printing can be located. Four copies of this printing are known ... Read more

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  • American Cookery

    Series Book 8 - Classic Alchemy Recipes
    The art of dressing viands, fish, poultry, and vegetables, and the best modes of making pastes, puffs, pies, tarts, puddings, custards, and preserves, and all kinds of cakes, from the imperial plum to plain cake: Adapted to this country, and all grades of life. ... Read more

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