Search Results: Authors starting with O from Caroliniana

San Francisco, California: Hinomoto Book Co, 1912. 9.5 x 6.5", quarter brown leather with blue cloth, gilt spine titles, silver illustrations of forks and spoons to spine, [1100] pp, paginated in Japanese, illustrations within text. Text in Japanese. Leather worn and dry, three inch crack to upper portion of rear joint. A cookbook intended to introduce Japanese cooks in the United States to western recipes. We could find little about the author, other than the appearance in the 1910 census of an "A.S. Ohata" living in San Francisco and employed as a book writer, listing 1887 as his year of arrival in the United States. The book begins with a glossary of kitchen terms and ingredients, followed by a 20 page illustrated glossary of pots, pans, and kitchen tools. This is followed by numerous recipes, including East Indian Dressing, Egyptian Mayonnaise, Japanese Dressing, Okra Succotash, Tennessee Grits Bread, roast antelope, buffalo, roast bear, and several of the author's own dishes "a l' Ohata",… Read More

London: Oxford University Press, 1929. Second impression. 8vo, original red cloth. This copy inscribed by Arthur Chandler Bleakley, a prominent Augusta, Gerogia pathologist and inventor of the "Chandler Loop", with with ownership stamps on the endpapers. A very attractive copy with some discoloration spots to covers, foxing (mainly to text block edges), mild toning.

New York: Paul B. Hoeber Inc, 1937. Hardcover, blue boards with printed title label, in the original glassine. Very good, bit toned, glassine toned with some chipping.