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Have you ever wanted to find a cookbook from your grandmother's or great-grandmother's generation? Or maybe a cookbook that's out of print, from a restaurant long gone, or from a cultural generation that's in the pages of history?
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Vintage cookbooks are a great source of history. Not just a history of cooking, but also an archive of the history of graphic design, illustration, photography. I've been archiving my collection of vintage cookbooks and recipes on my site: http://www.retrocookbook.com/ perhaps you and your readers will find my site of interest. Best, Jim retrocookbook on Oct 26, 2009
Hi Kimberly,
Depending on what titles your grandmother had you donate them to a Library. The New York Public Library has a large culinary collection and often takes donations. http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/grd/resguides/culinary/
If you were interested in going that route, you could contact the NYPL culinary librarian through her blog http://cookedbooks.blogspot.com/
Or you could try to sell them to a cookbook store. In San Francisco, you could try Green Apple Books http://www.greenapplebooks.com (I've never been here, just found it online.) Or in New York, there's Bonnie Slotnick Cookbooks http://www.bonnieslotnickcookbooks.com/
Or just send them out in the world and give them to Goodwill...
Good luck. AmyE on Aug 13, 2008