first edition
1903 · Los Angeles
by Lummis, Charles F., et al.
Los Angeles: The Out West Company, 1903. First Edition. Octavo: [iv], vi, 261 pp. with black-and-white photographs and illustrations. In a bespoke crushed green morocco binding by David Weinstein, with gilt-stamped titles, a chili pepper stamped in red with dark green and gilt accents, five raised bands, and gray endpapers. Bitting 295; Brown 59; Cook 28; Glozer 150; Longone I:6; Zamorano Select 60; not in Cagle.
"This book was published to raise money for the restoration of the Spanish missions, and before and after pictures of some of the missions are provided in the front of the book. The foreword is by Charles Lummis, the editor of the Los Angeles Times and author of many books of the American Southwest. He's been called "one of the great proselytizers of Hispanic cookery. Lummis includes a chapter on 'Spanish American Dishes,' which is considered to be one of the first descriptions of Mexican cookery in an American publication. Several works containing Mexican or Mexican inspired dishes preceded this work, including Treasures Old & New (1898), and Mary Johnston's pamphlet Spanish Cooking (1895). But these recipes cover more ground, with over 40 dishes from Mexico and Latin America" (Encarnación Pinedo, Encarnación's Kitchen: Mexican Recipes from Nineteenth-Century California). (Inventory #: 78054)
"This book was published to raise money for the restoration of the Spanish missions, and before and after pictures of some of the missions are provided in the front of the book. The foreword is by Charles Lummis, the editor of the Los Angeles Times and author of many books of the American Southwest. He's been called "one of the great proselytizers of Hispanic cookery. Lummis includes a chapter on 'Spanish American Dishes,' which is considered to be one of the first descriptions of Mexican cookery in an American publication. Several works containing Mexican or Mexican inspired dishes preceded this work, including Treasures Old & New (1898), and Mary Johnston's pamphlet Spanish Cooking (1895). But these recipes cover more ground, with over 40 dishes from Mexico and Latin America" (Encarnación Pinedo, Encarnación's Kitchen: Mexican Recipes from Nineteenth-Century California). (Inventory #: 78054)
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