(FOOD DRINK) 5BAmelia Simmons5D American Cookery or The Art o

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(FOOD & DRINK.) [Amelia Simmons.], American Cookery, or, The Art of Dressing Viands, Fish, Poultry, and Vegetables . . . By an American Orphan. 72 pages. 12mo, unbound, stitched; toned, moderate dampstaining, corner wear to first three leaves touching one letter, closed tear to leaf D3, final gathering and flyleaf detached; charming pencil note on flyleaf reading "Grandma Badger's cook book--splendid mince pies." Np: "Printed for the publishers," 1808

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5th edition of the first cookbook to be written and published in the United States; it first appeared in 1796. Cagle 701; Lowenstein 46.