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New Vintage Products Added

admin — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 17:26:16 +0000

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!)

New items on our Etsy Shop!

admin — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 19:02:41 +0000

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

admin — Sat, 22 May 2010 03:20:30 +0000

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 cookbook collection, for some reason I also have a collection of vintage Cub Scout and Boy Scout books… not sure why other than the cool art.

This mighty fine retro cookbook states that it is for: scouts, campers, picnickers, fisherman, and hunters… indeed it is! I’d probably add to that hobo’s, street people, and those folks with foil hats.

This baby is filled with awesome photos and mouth watering recipes that will help you make tastier campfire meals without pots, pans and dishes. I would also think this would be ideal for today’s modern, ultralight backpackers. One roll of aluminum foil (Reynolds of course) and leave the pots, pans, cup, plates, etc behind. Brilliant!

As you can see from the cover art, this is a mighty cool little cookbook. Inside you will find, boy scouts cooking in foil and making cups out of foil. You will also find manly men doing manly things. There are quite a few shots of men decked in plaid wool shirts with their rifles, or cooking up fine looking meals over the campfire. Then you have this…

Have you ever…? Well, thankfully there is text to go with this image otherwise I’d wonder what they were aiming at. I’ll leave it at that.

But seriously folks, this is a really cool cookbook which offers some serious recipes & ideas, as well as the great photos. You can learn to build a proper fire, to make breakfast, fish, meat, bread, and even “banana yum”! It even shows you how to cook a whole chicken over a campfire. (Now, did they bring the chicken with them, or were they hunting chickens? And if they were hunting chickens, I must assume a farmer was chasing them with his shotgun.) How can you pass up this awesome vintage cookbook?

{this post was originally written and produced for Gertrude’s Garret, the Premier Supporter of The Retro Cookbook. You can find her wonderful selection of vintage cookbooks and other fabulous items for sale here: Gertrude’s Garret }

The New Shop!

admin — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 15:54:41 +0000

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!

New vintage cookbook for sale

admin — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 02:00:53 +0000

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

admin — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:45:10 +0000

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 of France’s history to the recipes and ingredients. The recipes cover a wide range… from Hors d’Oeuvres to soups, main dishes to sauces, baked goods and desserts. It even has a glossary of cooking terms.

Since I somehow ended up with two copies of this, I have one up for sale. This copy is in very good shape with only some slight creasing on the cover. The pages inside make it look as if it was hardly used. The only oddity is that two sets of pages were never stapled in with the rest and therefore are set in loose. I have this for sale in my Etsy shop which is linked to the right.

Retro Goodness

admin — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 21:48:39 +0000

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 of the printing really stands out, as does the texture of the paper. Since joining Etsy, I’ve noticed an interest in vintage images for collages and whatnot, so I’m creating my own downloadable collage sheets for my Etsy store. My first collage sheet was of vintage kitchen utensils (more vintage cookbook art to follow!), and my newest is called Comic Book Street Scenes – Cops & Robbers.

Vintage Divided Ceramic Fondue Plates

admin — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 02:54:15 +0000

I have this set of three vintage ceramic divided fondue plates, which I love, but must pass along to someone else. My cupboards have limit space, and with all the Buffalo China Diner-ware that I have, there is sadly no more room for plates. I’ll have to curtail my vintage plate shopping. As well as shopping for cool vintage drinking glasses. Well… to be honest, my small cabin is probably at it’s limit for vintage goodies, lest I want to become a nutty packrat… which I don’t.

If you like these plates, I have them for sale on my Retro Cookbook Etsy shop: http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=35409898&ref=em (if that link doesn’t work, try the main shop http://www.etsy.com/shop/retrocookbook)

Vintage Kitchen Utensil Illustrations for Download

admin — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:16:30 +0000

I have a digital download of some vintage mid-50′s era kitchen utensil illustration for sale on my Etsy shop. High Resolution and Cheap! Vector files of any of the separate illustrations available upon special order. More cool retro art to follow.