Cookbook Collecting and Reviews

This post focuses on the top 10 cookbooks to make sure to include in a cookbook collection. For someone interested in cookbook collecting, this will give you a head start on the basic books to include as the foundation of your collection. These are the more mainstream cookbooks of the past. They...

Barbecue and grilling cookbooks are great for outdoor cooking ideas for any time of the year. In honor of Labor Day, we thought we'd put together a list of some of the top collectible and vintage cookbooks for this weekend's barbecue festivities and other barbecue-perfect holidays. Read on to se...

Cookbook Village often posts best of lists of used cookbooks. This article, 5 Celebrity Singers Who Have Written Cookbooks, exposes some of the surprising singers that can sing and cook. Most of the below cookbooks are signed copies with signature imagery available in our Flickr cookbook covers ...

As many of our customers know, Cookbook Village loves restaurant cookbooks. This is one of our top selling categories on our web store. Collectors seem to love collecting cookbooks from their favorite restaurants as much as we do. We already published one great article on the 5 top collectible re...

Restaurant cookbooks are our personal favorite when it comes to collecting. Somehow the thrill of finding recipe books from our favorite restaurants is like no other (well almost…we love autographed books too!). Cookbook Village sells a lot of historic restaurant, inn and B&B cookbooks and of...

This review discusses The American Woman's Cook Book, a vintage cookbook published originally in 1939. The cookbook has been printed in several editions and bindings, including most notably the wartime Victory binding and the National binding. The Victory binding includes a dedication to General...

Cookbook Village store sold this scarce collectible cookbook from Chef Warren Leruth. Leruth was the owner of LeRuth's restaurant in Gretna, Louisiana. Both Leruth and his restaurant remain legendary in the culinary world. The cookbook, LeRuth's Front Door Back Door Cook Book is nearly non-exist...

What better way to the heart on Valentine's Day than a romantic meal or sweet treat? Cookbook Village celebrates this special day with a feature on five cookbooks for Valentine's Day romance, passion and love. Each of the cookbooks honors the day of love in its own special way. We hope that you h...

This 1982 Johnny Mathis Cooking for You Alone cookbook is considered highly collectible... perhaps this one shown is the rarest of them all. We felt compelled to share our highest valued cookbook sold during 2011 in our latest collectibility review. Johnny Mathis signed and inscribed this partic...

The Hungarian Cookery - Recipes New and Old Cookbook from importer Paprikas Weiss is reviewed here. There seems to be a surge as of late in sales of Hungarian cookbooks online. In recent months we've noticed a growth in sales of recipe books focused around the cuisine of Hungary. We thought if f...