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Pioneering Charities 1888-1927

Council Cook Book
The Best in the West:  Our Friends' Recipes
Our Sisters' Recipes
The Temple Cook Book
The Fair Cook Book
The Way to a Man’s Heart, “The Settlement” Cook Book
The Temple Cook Book
One Thousand Favorite Recipes
Council Cook Book
Our Sisters' Recipes
Economical and Tried Recipes
The Practical Cook Book
The Flower City Cook Book
A Collection of Well Tested Recipes (Orphan Aid Cook Book)
The 1914 Cook Book
The Neighborhood Cook Book
The Ladies Auxiliary to Temple de Hirsch, Famous Cook Book
Precious Secrets
The Best in the West:  Our Friends' Recipes
The Center Table
Vegetarian Cook Book (Vegetarisher Kokh Bukh)
The Home Cook Book
Hadassah Kosher Cook Book
Favorite Recipes [Philadelphia Cook Book]

Charity Cookbooks from All 50 States

Like Mama Used to Make…and More
Matzo Ball Gumbo
The Joy of Jewish Cooking
Shalom on the Range: A Roundup of Recipes and Jewish Traditions from Colorado Kitchens
Palate Pleasers
Shalom on the Range: A Roundup of Recipes and Jewish Traditions from Colorado Kitchens
Heaven Scent: Recipes from the Land of the Midnight Sun
Tradition, Tradition from Our Hearts
From Generation to Generation
From Sinai to Sonora
Cooking the Sephardic Way
More than Chicken Soup: Recipes from the Little Synagogue on the Prairie
A Taste of ORT
“Now You Don’t Have to Call Your Mother”:  Contemporary and Traditional Kosher Recipes
The When You Live in Hawaii You Get Very Creative during Passover Cookbook
In the Kitchen with not so Desperate Jewish Housewives
A Collection of Kosher Recipes
The Sephardic Cooks (Comé con Gana)
From Geflite Fish to a Gourmet Dish
Uncommonly Kosher
500 Choice Recipes
What's Cookin'? in Marion, Indiana
טוב טעם (Tov Ta'am) Good Taste
The Joy of Jewish Cooking
Matzo Ball Gumbo
Just a Few Selected Recipes
Sisterhood Cook Book
Live to be 121! Low-Fat/No-Fat Cookbook
Treats to Eat: Recipes…Tried and Tested
Choice Recipes
B’nai Brith ‘Kneads’ the Dough!
More than Matzo Balls
Chrismukkah: The Merry Mish-Mash Holiday Cookbook
Favorite Recipes
Like Mama Used to Make:  A Collection of Favorite and Traditional Jewish Dishes
Like Mama Used to Make…and More
So? What’s Cooking?:  A Treasury of Traditional Jewish Recipes
Fiddler in the Kitchen
With a Russian Flavor
25th Anniversary Cookbook
Lox and Grits: Jewish Kitchens in Appalachia
Eppes Essen (Something to Eat)
40 Years in the Desert
The Joys of Jewish Cooking – or – Just Like Mother Used to Make
Cooking Aromas Dedicated to the Great Chefs of Temple Beth Torah Sisterhood
What’s Cooking:  A Collection of Recipes for the Gustatory Delight of the Gourmet, Vol. II
Kosher Cookery Unlimited
—with Some Dishes Mother Never Knew
Taste:  A Collection of Contemporary and Traditional Kosher Recipes
A Book of Favorite Recipes
5000 Years in the Kitchen
Cook Book
Kum Essen III:  The Tradition Continues
The Neighborhood Cook Book
Timeless:  Four Generations of Creative Kosher Cuisine
Simply More Delicious:  A Collection of New and Treasured Recipes
Historically Cooking:  250 Years of Good Eating
You Don't Have to be Jewish to Cook Jewish
Recipes by Request
Kosher Yankee Centennial:  100 Years of Jewish Cooking in Vermont
NCJW Passover Tasting Recipes:  Appetizers and Desserts
Men in the Kitchen!:  A Kosher Cookbook for Men and Their Friends
Jewish Creative Cooking:  200 years of Jewish Cooking in America ~ with over 4000 years of heritage
Yesterday's Mavens, Today's Foodies:  Traditions in Northwest Jewish Kitchens
The Jewish Celebrity Cookbook
Food for Body and Soul

The Commercial Cookbooks

Matzoh Ball Gumbo:  Culinary Tales of the Jewish South
Aunt Babette's Cookbook
The National Cookery Book, Compiled from Original Receipts, for the Women's Centennial Committees
Jewish Cookery Book or Principles of Economy Adapted for Jewish Housekeepers
Jewish Cookery Book or Principles of Economy Adapted for Jewish Housekeepers
The Virginia Housewife or Methodical Cook
Modern Cookery in All Its Branches
Mrs. Hale's New Cook Book
Jenny June's American Cookery Book
The National Cookery Book, Compiled from Original Receipts, for the Women's Centennial Committees
Jewish Cookery Book or Principles of Economy Adapted for Jewish Housekeepers
The Jewish Manual: Or Practical Information in Modern Cookery
Mrs. Rorer's New Cook Book
The Twentieth Century Cook Book
Fannie Fox's Cook Book
Aunt Babette's Cookbook
Modern Kosher Meals:  Recipes and Menus arranged for each month of the year based on current food supplies
The Jewish Cook Book
The Jewish Examiner Prize Kosher Recipe Book
The Molly Goldberg Cookbook
The New York Times Cookbook
The Sentinel Jewish Cook Book
Book of Jewish Recipes
In Memory's Kitchen: A Legacy from the Women of Terezin
From My Mother's Kitchens:  Recipes and Reminiscences
From the Jewish Heartland:  Two Centuries of Midwest Foodways
Jewish Cooking in America
Matzoh Ball Gumbo:  Culinary Tales of the Jewish South
Tender at the Bone:  Growing Up at the Table
The Book of Schmaltz:  Love Song to a Forgotten Fat

Bakers, Butchers, and Markets

Bakers and Baking in Massachusetts Including the Flour, Baking Supply and Kindred Interests from 1620 to 1909
The Sephardim and the Pike Place Market
Baeckers’ Zeitung
Baeckers’ Zeitung
The Market Assistant containing a brief description of Every Article of Human Food Sold in the Public Markets of the cities of New York, Boston, Philadelphia, and Brooklyn; including the various Domestic and Wild Animals, Poultry, Game, Fish, Vegetables, Fruits, &c., &c., with Many Curious Incidents and Anecdotes
The Market Book containing a Historical Account of the Public Markets in the Cities of New York Boston Philadelphia and Brooklyn With a brief Description of every Article of Human Fold sold therein. Vol. I
The Sephardim and the Pike Place Market
Baeckers’ Zeitung
Gottlieb’s Bakery:  100 Years of Recipes or 100 Years of “Is it Fresh?”
Bakers and Baking in Massachusetts Including the Flour, Baking Supply and Kindred Interests from 1620 to 1909
Barry Bagels
Eli's Cheesecake Co. History

Culinary Ephemera

Famous Recipes for Jewish Housewives
The Song of Songs Cookbook: Passover Manna
Chosen Food: Cuisine, Culture and American Jewish Identity
Planters Passover Recipe Book
"You Don't Have to be Jewish to Love Levy's Rye" Advertisments
Florida Citrus
Tempting Kosher Dishes
Tempting Kosher Dishes
Crisco Recipes for the Jewish Housewife (Krisko Resepyes far der Idisher Baleboste)
Cook Book
Jewish Recipes for Good Jewish Cooking
Planters Passover Recipe Book
Chosen Food: Cuisine, Culture and American Jewish Identity
Food, Fun and Festivity with Mogen David Wines and Champagnes.
The Song of Songs Cookbook: Passover Manna
Deluxe Edition Passover Haggadah
Better Home and Gardens Celebrating Passover Recipes (Compliments of Planters Peanut Oil)
American Kosher Recipe Book
Famous Recipes for Jewish Housewives
The Jewish Housewife's Guide: laws for making meat kosher and other important information
Silver Planters Peanut Spoon
Cheeses of All Nations Encyclopedia
"You Don't Have to be Jewish to Love Levy's Rye" Advertisments
The Lender's Bagel Story

Menus

2nd Ave Deli Menu
Kosher Delight Menu
Zingerman's Menus
Barney Greengrass: the Sturgeon King
Barney Greengrass: the Sturgeon King
2nd Ave Deli Menu
Yonah Schimmel's Knishery menu
Barney Greengrass: the Sturgeon King
Russ and Daughters Menu
Grossinger's
Katz's Delicatessen Menu
Kutsher's Tribeca
Starky's Restuarant
Resto Change O!
Milt's BBQ for the Perplexed Menus
Domenica Restaurant & Bar
Kosher Delight Menu
Annie's Kitchen Kosher Chinese Food
Zingerman's Menus

Food Festivals

Dallas Kosher Chili Cook-Off
When Pigs Fly!:  Kosher BBQ Cook-Off and Festival
Hardlox Jewish Food and Heritage Festival
Hardlox Jewish Food and Heritage Festival
When Pigs Fly!:  Kosher BBQ Cook-Off and Festival
Shalom Y'all Jewish Food Festival
Dallas Kosher Chili Cook-Off
Long Island Kosher BBQ Championship
Deli Days:  Idaho Jewish Cultural Festival
Yiddish Food Festival
Hardlox Jewish Food and Heritage Festival
International Kosher Food Festival

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