I’ve added a bunch of new vintage cookbooks, books, and other items to the Retro Cookbook Shop!  Most of the items can also be found on the Retro Cookbook Etsy Shop as well. (But you will find some sales here!)

I’ve added several new, vintage cookbooks and other items to our Etsy shop, check it out: http://www.etsy.com/shop/retrocookbook (I’ll also be adding them to the online shop on this site, as time allows.)

Outdoor Cooking with Reynolds Wrap – How to prepare tastier campfire meals without pots, pans and dishes, published in 1950 by the Reynolds Metals Company. Wow! This is one of my favorites from my collection and I really don’t know why it has taken me so long to review this baby! Apart from my vintage [...]

I just wanted to let everyone know that I am in the process of setting up a shopping cart on the site.  The “Shop” page has been very popular according to our web stats, so instead of just having our Etsy store, we will also have one on this site. Thanks for your interest!

I have an extra of this in my collection, and this one is in near mint shape!  You can buy on my Etsy shop retrocookbook.etsy.com

The French Cookbook – 141 world-renowned French recipes, published in 1955 by the Culinary Arts Institute in Chicago. Ooow la, la! This fine vintage cookbook is filled with fine recipes that are “designed to bring French culinary art to the American home.” It is also filled with fine illustrations ranging from French maids to scenes [...]

Aside from my vintage cookbook collection, I have a modest comic book collection, from my youth. Last night I was looking through some old comics and visually cropping some of the art in my mind. I decided to scan some of these cropped areas… very cool stuff. Scanned at a high resolution, the dot pattern [...]