Marlyène Altieri is the curator of Books and Printed Materials at The Schlesigner Library on the History of Women in America, including its culinary collection, which makes up about 20 percent of the ...

The St. Paul campus of the University of Minnesota has a food lover's gem tucked away in its Magrath Library. It houses the Doris S. Kirschner Collection, a cook's reading paradise of 5,000-plus ...

Looking for a Jewish cookbook with a recipe for lobster canapés? Then Roberta Saltzman is your woman. Or how about the Sinai Temple Sisterhood’s old cookbook from Marion, Ind., with its offering of ...

Cookbooks are a window into the heart of America's story. While textbooks and biographies shape our country's more scholarly history, cookbooks capture a different perspective, often speaking to the ...

With more than 600 titles in her inventory, Ellin Palmer’s cookbook collection is a time capsule of sorts, representing some of the key volumes of the last 60 years. Until recently, those books have ...

Welcome to the Cookbook Shelf, in which Eater talks to all manner of food professionals about their book collections. Warning: serious book nerdery ahead. Below, Brock tells Eater all about his ...

Welcome to the Cookbook Shelf, in which Eater talks to all manner of food professionals about their book collections. Warning: serious book nerdery ahead. Based on the number of cookbooks I own, I ...

A smudge of chile. A splatter of fat. Perhaps a faded whiff of ancient cumin. A good cookbook can’t help but become a repository of kitchen relics. But the books themselves are the artifacts Agnieszka ...

Like any rabbi, Robert Sternberg has seforim, volumes of Jewish learning and commentary, at home. But he may be alone among his peers with a collection of 500 cookbooks, many of which extend far ...

How do you downsize a lifetime of cookbooks? I’m planning a move from a spacious apartment to a compact 500-square-foot space. It’s exciting — at least that’s what I’m telling myself. The truth is ...

Live in a small apartment for long enough and you could end up a hoarder. It happens so gradually you hardly pay attention, until one day you wake up and notice that you're five junk piles away from ...