New England

The New Brooklyn Cookbook: Recipes and Stories from 31 Restaurants That Put Brooklyn on the Culinary Map

“   One of the joys of living in or near New York City is that you can visit all of the different buroughs and try amazing food prepared by the city’s large immigrant population.  While some areas are a longer subway ride than others, they all seem to be worth the extra trip.  This is especially true of Brooklyn, which is having a renaissance of sorts, with some incredible...” --prtybrd

Cooking Close to Home: A Year of Seasonal Recipes

“                 First impressions first: Cooking Closer to Home: A Year of Seasonal Recipes is full of well composed photographs of beautiful dishes, but they suffer from poor print quality. It may be of interest to know that they chose to use an environmentally responsible publisher, which is in line with the message...” --Nicholas Beebe

The Maine Summers Cookbook: Recipes for Delicious, Sun-Filled Days

“      When you pick up a cookbook, do you open it with all the enthusiasm of opening the refrigerator when looking for a late night snack?   So often this happens to me, because I am used to opening a cookbook only to be disappointed with what is inside.  The Maine Summers Cookbook did not disappoint me; in fact, it may have rekindled the old cooking flames...” --JustPJ

What's Cooking down in Maine A practical cookbook of good Maine Food

“ I was feeling neighborly, so when the family next door broke the news that they were moving, I asked if there was anything I could do to help. Next thing I knew, I was knee-deep in a larder full of books. “Take as many as you like,” urged my neighbor Louise, “you’ll be doing us a huge favor.” It was a veritable treasure trove of books on cooking that had been stashed away for decades and,...” --GourmetM

Cooking Down East

“ Do you need a good well rounded, simple to follow, down home, cooking like mom used to make cookbook?  Cooking Down  East by Marjorie Standish may be just that book.  I am lucky enough to have a 1968 old yellow copy of this book signed by the author.  Mrs. Standish wrote a column for the widely read (in Maine anyway) Maine Sunday Telegram since 1948, and was such a popular...” --JustPJ

New England Winterfare Cooking

Yum, Yum!: The New Hampshire Kid's Cookbook (Carole Marsh New Hampshire Books)

During school visits, Carole discovered that kids love to talk about food. So, she decided this was a great way to approach history, geography, multicultural studies, women, science & more - by teaching kids the culinary contributions of New Hampshire and the history and folklore behind them. Who created the first corn flake? What was the first pizza called? Who sold the first hot...

Recipes & Rhyme: Comfort Food from the Northeast Kingdom

The recipes in this appealing book were compiled from personal cookbooks begun in the 1890s and added to for sixty years. With Vermont frugality, they were pasted onto and written in the blank spaces of hardbound books. Selections from two volumes of vernacular light verse by Mary Elkins Gardyne, Oup in Ole Vermont and Encore, accompany recipes with names that are gastronomic poetry in...

Olde New England's Kitchen Full of Christmas

This book is a collection of seasonal recipes from the author's family. Selections range from main courses to baked goods, elegant to easy, partyfare to family supper. There is also a section devoted to gift giving and craft ideas perfect for that difficult to buy for person on your list.

Mrs. Lincoln's Boston Cook Book (Cooking in America)

Mary Johnson Bailey Lincoln was an instructor at the Boston Cooking School, where she influenced a generation of cooking professionals, including Fannie Farmer, with her methods based in the "chemistry and philosophy of food." The Boston Cook Book, published in 1883, became a standard in American kitchens and was also widely used in cooking classrooms. Specific instruction in the...