This was being offered on my local freecycle group, and while I'm not a
collector of cookbooks, I thought they'd be fun. They look like they're
from the 60s and look to be written by the Culinary Arts Institute.

It has booklets inside a binder with tempting titles such as Meats, Fish,
Poultry, Snacks, Eggs, Desserts, Cookies, Cakes, Sauces and Gravies and even
Body Building Dishes for Children. Neat!

Cheryl wrote:

> This was being offered on my local freecycle group, and while I'm
> not a collector of cookbooks, I thought they'd be fun. They look
> like they're from the 60s and look to be written by the Culinary
> Arts Institute.
>
> It has booklets inside a binder with tempting titles such as Meats,
> Fish, Poultry, Snacks, Eggs, Desserts, Cookies, Cakes, Sauces and
> Gravies and even Body Building Dishes for Children. Neat!

If you're willing to read cookbooks onscreen, there are a number of
free old ones at gutenberg.org.

--
Dan Goodman
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"Dan Goodman" > wrote in message
...

>
> If you're willing to read cookbooks onscreen, there are a number of
> free old ones at gutenberg.org.
>
Thanks! I don't own many cookbooks and usually get recipes online, so thank
you for another resource.

These are fun though. I've already found a very old newspaper clipping
inside one of the desert booklets. I see from the listing of 24 booklets
that there are a few missing. I'd love to see the one titled "2000 useful
facts about food" but it's not here.

On 9/19/2010 12:14 PM, Cheryl wrote:
> This was being offered on my local freecycle group, and while I'm not a
> collector of cookbooks, I thought they'd be fun. They look like they're
> from the 60s and look to be written by the Culinary Arts Institute.
>
> It has booklets inside a binder with tempting titles such as Meats,
> Fish, Poultry, Snacks, Eggs, Desserts, Cookies, Cakes, Sauces and
> Gravies and even Body Building Dishes for Children. Neat!
>
>
We have the gardening version, bought it in the mid-sixties if I
remember correctly. Wouldn't be without it. Hope the cooking one is as good.

On Sep 19, 11:46*am, Andy > wrote:
> I need a computerized cookbook that I can talk with.
>
> "Computer, my favorite 'Biscuits and gravy' recipe please?"
>
> "Andy, sift together 1 cup AP flour and 1/4 tsp salt."
>
> "Computer, OK. WAIT!"
>
> "OK Computer, now what?"
>
> "Andy, add one teaspoon baking powder."
>
> "Computer, OK. WAIT!"
>
> "OK computer, now what?"
>
> "Andy, do you want 'biscuits and gravy' today or next week?"
>
> "Computer, OK. WAIT! Was that one teaspoon or tablespoon???"
>
> "Andy, once upon a time, the end!" SHUTDOWN

==
Get a wife and you wont need a computer voice to nag you...in fact
you'll have a hard time shutting it down at the best of times if you
get her riled. Been there, done that.
==

The Culinary Arts Institute booklets were offered weekly as supermarket
promotions, back when grocery shopping was done one day (only) a week.
Forget to buy one and you were out of luck. A lot of those recipes are
in their Encyclopedic Cookbooks - still have mine as a useful reference.
jan

"j h" > wrote in message
...
> The Culinary Arts Institute booklets were offered weekly as supermarket
> promotions, back when grocery shopping was done one day (only) a week.
> Forget to buy one and you were out of luck. A lot of those recipes are
> in their Encyclopedic Cookbooks - still have mine as a useful reference.
> jan
>

Ah, thanks for that. That explains the ad inserts in the center of them
all. Ads for beer, bread, some other things that were a little funny (to
me).

Cheryl wrote:
> This was being offered on my local freecycle group, and while I'm not a
> collector of cookbooks, I thought they'd be fun. They look like they're
> from the 60s and look to be written by the Culinary Arts Institute.
>
> It has booklets inside a binder with tempting titles such as Meats,
> Fish, Poultry, Snacks, Eggs, Desserts, Cookies, Cakes, Sauces and
> Gravies and even Body Building Dishes for Children. Neat!
>
>
Really late reply. This little booklets (etc.) have an
interesting ancestry. See:

http://www.friktech.com/cai/cai.htm

--
Jean B.

]The Culinary Arts Institute booklets were offered weekly as supermarket
promotions, back when grocery shopping was done one day (only) a week.
Forget to buy one and you were out of luck. A lot of those recipes are
in their Encyclopedic Cookbooks - still have mine as a useful reference.
jan

Hello - this is my first post..and I am here with a very strange request. I see that you have the encyclopediic cookbooks - would you happen to have no 6..soups?
I have misplaced mine and need a recipe from it. I know there are many cookbooks out there with many many recipes - but I would like to use the one i have always made. Hope you can assist.. MLB