Hunting down a great wedding gift: Vintage Cookbooks
I have a couple of weddings to go to this summer, and I've been racking my brain for interesting, personal, original gift ideas. One of the items I'm seriously considering (for a friend who likes to cook) is a stack of vintage cookbooks. I just love the idea of him diving into intricate, traditional recipes from a seriously authentic regional cuisine. I also think, depending on the style of your kitchen, some of these would look incredible displayed. Right now I'm choosing between a collection of New Orleans recipes from 1944, a groovy tome on Scandinavian cooking from the '60s, Henri Paul Pellaprat's The Great Book of French Cuisine, and this cool-looking guide to New Hampshire's farm foodies from 1958. Also, I have no idea what the dishes would be like, but the cover of this book is amazing: Who doesn't want cooking to be Fast Fun & Fancy?
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