Cook's Cook Book
San Francisco, California: Hinomoto Book Co, 1912. Octavo, 9.5 x 6.5", quarter brown leather with blue cloth, gilt spine titles, silver illustrations of forks and spoons to spine, [1100] pp, paginated in Japanese, illustrations within text. Text in Japanese. A cookbook written by a Japanese American, intended to introduce Japanese cooks in the United States to Western recipes. We could find little about the author, other than the appearance in the 1910 census of an "A.S. Ohata" living in San Francisco and employed as a book writer, listing 1887 as his year of arrival in the United States. The book begins with a glossary of kitchen terms and ingredients, followed by a 20 page illustrated glossary of pots, pans, and kitchen tools. This is followed by numerous recipes, including East Indian Dressing, Egyptian Mayonnaise, Japanese Dressing, Okra Succotash, Tennessee Grits Bread, roast antelope, buffalo, roast bear, and several of the author's own dishes "a l' Ohata", including "Chicken Pie a'l' Ohata." The book concludes with a 60 page index. UCLA, UC Davis, and Yale in OCLC, though other copies may be mixed in with listings or digital and microform copies. Leather worn and dry, three inch crack to upper portion of rear joint, very good. Item #10261
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