Cookbook Collecting and Reviews

Cookbook Village specializes in a variety of categories of used cookbooks. In a survey we conducted on top collectible cookbook categories, signed cookbooks were the top choice of collectible for 10% of our customers, making it the third most desirable category after vintage cookbooks and restau...

Signature and bio of chef Hubert Keller, author of The Cuisine of Hubert Keller. Keller is a French-born chef, well known for his restaurants Fleur de Lys in San Francisco, California and Burger Bar in Las Vegas, Nevada. He is often a guest judge on the hit culinary reality series Top Chef. Wow,...

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...

This Cookbook Village article from our signed cookbooks series spotlights the 5 most creative chef signatures we have had in our collection. Each of these chef signatures is as unique and interesting as the dishes they have inspired. Some are living, some have passed on... but their creativity l...

This signed chef Mark Miller Red Sage cookbook is not the first of Miller's books I've had in my inventory. Miller has authored or co-authored nearly a dozen cookbooks. Coyote Cafe cookbook is likely the most well known of his books as his former restaurant under the same name in Santa Fe, New M...

Rick Tramonto's Fantastico! cookbook is covered in this chef signature article. I remember chef Tramonto from Top Chef Masters as being one of the nicest chefs on the show. He was very likable, with a kind face and great sportsmanship. He definitely should be asked back for another chance at the...

Signature and bio of chef Todd English, author of Olives Table Cookbook. Olives is an award winning restaurant in Boston and Las Vegas known for their Mediterranean/Italian-inspired dishes. I have had the pleasure of dining at many celebrity-chef-owned restaurants from Wolfgang Puck restaurant C...

I came across a signed copy of Nick Stellino's Family Kitchen Cookbook where it was buried among a slew of newer cookbooks by the latest celebrity chefs. I am on occasion lucky enough to find a signed copy if patient enough to look inside the pages of dozens and dozens of books before striking c...

Next to Julia Child, when you think of French cooking, you think of chef Jacques Pépin. He is still a top seller in the cookbook world unlike many of his peers who saw their heyday vanish after their numerous best-sellers and celebrity chefdom eventually tire out their readers/viewers. Shown in ...

Girlfriends Forever Cookbook by Susan Branch who is a widely known cookbook and crafts author, known for her beautiful hand-written, watercolor decorated books. Girlfriends Forever is one of her most popular books. I have owned several of her books and have only come across this one signed copy....