Treasure on Your Bookshelf? Check It Out

I've written previously about collectible cookbooks; here's an update. Remember, condition is a major factor in value. So, here's the latest from the Collectors Weekly roundup of eBay auction prices for collectible cookbooks. The list may not reflect the highest bids because the auctions were/are ongoing. I deleted some chosen by their robot but not really cookbooks, like Audubon’s Birds of America – I don’t think so. This was as of Saturday, Sept. 23:

1) Mastering The Art Of French Cooking Signed Julia Child, 7th Printing, Oct 1964 - $101 (2 bids)
2) Antique Handwritten Recipe & Cook Book Vintage Food/beer/wine/medicine Ny 1873 - $51 (19 bids)
3) Vtg 1961 1st Ed. Betty Crockers New Picture Cook Book Binder Really Nice - $51 (12 bids)
6) Signed Bill Clinton Cookbook Recipes From

Three Cookbook Reviews: History, Oysters, France

Here we are reviewing – giving brief introductions – to three cookbooks, one from American history, one on the favorite food of many, the oyster, and concluding with a visit to the French kitchen. Dig in:

                           The Colonel’s Wife’s Cookbook

During the Civil War, Alice Kirk Grierson’s husband rose to the rank of Major General of Volunteers from Illinois. After the war he joined the regular army as a colonel and Alice followed him West.

   Having the good fortune to be from a wealthy family, she kept her recipe book mostly as a way

Kitchen Table Tidbits #10: Plastic in Fish, Amazon Sells Recalls, Coffee is Good, Meatless Meat Contains Mold, Eat More Armadillo

1. IF YOU EAT FISH YOU PROBABLY EAT PLASTIC TOO: More than 50 species of fish have been found to consume plastic trash at sea, according to a researcher writing in The Washington Post. These include mackerel, striped bass and Pacific oysters. The plastic is called “toxic.” There is a ripple: For example, your fresh sea salt contains microplastics, as studies have demonstrated.

But wait, there’s more. Testing of bottled, natural and tapwater in the U.S. showed 94

Mail Order Stew -- Right For You?

Stew by Mail? (Courtesy Pixabay)

Can’t say as I blame you if you find it hard to believe. Who would order stew by mail?
There could be circumstances, I suppose.   At any rate, there surely must be an audience for such a thing, because there are several providers of mail order stew active on the Internet.
For instance, Kenny and Ziggy. Their mail order stew is