Cooking Books on AbeBooks

Draft Copies: Books About Drink

We have selected 20 books, mostly from the dim and distant past, on drinking. Ale, wine, gin, inns, bars, cocktails, drinking songs, beer cans, bartending and staying off the stuff - it's all there.

Twenty Drinking Books

Julia Child's Cookbooks

Julia Child (1912-2004) can be thanked for introducing French cuisine to America - the land of hot dogs and apple pie - during the 1960s. Aside from her most famous creation, Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Child wrote more than a dozen cookbooks. Mastering the Art of French Cooking was first published in 1961 and her TV career began two years later.

Weird Cookbooks

From roadkill to bugs, car engines to Star Wars, take a peek at our Top Ten list of the world's weirdest cookbooks.

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Bestselling Out-of-Print Cookbooks

Even with so many varieties of cookbooks, the vast majority fall out-of-print within a few years of being published. Putting aside culinary juggernauts such as The Joy of Cooking and The Moosewood Cookbook, cookbooks have a very short shelf life in mainstream bookstores. However, the Internet and the world’s second-hand booksellers have ensured these out-of-print cookery books can be found and purchased in seconds.

See AbeBooks′ Top 10 Bestselling Out-of-Print Cookbooks

Hand-Me-Down Cookbooks

AbeBooks asked 500 customers who owned a cookbook that had been given to them by a family member to spill the beans about their beloved hand-me-down culinary companions.

Read The Top 10 Most Frequently Handed Down Cookbooks