This is a classic in Spanish kitchens for decades...

The family continued the tradition: A second 1080 recepies ... from Simone's daughter Inés. Simone took her husband's name, Ortega. He was the founder of Alianza Editorial and El País (a Spanish news paper), son of the well known Spanish philosopher and author Ortega y Gasset.

Wow! Cool!!

Emilia Pardo de Bazán was a famous Spanish writer from the second half of the XIX Century.

This is another book my mother had at home:

This other one was from the Female Section of the Spanish Fascist party Falange:

I know. Sometimes I buy them and just read them for fun.

Oh man. I am jealous.

J’ai l’art culinaire et je sais cuisiner ! J’adore les vieux livres de cuisine.

J’ai deux éditions de l’art culinaire comme deux de Larousse Gastronomique et j’adore découvrir les différences!

J’ai un Larousse gastro aussi et un vieux livre des années 70 où tout semble en gelée 😂

Pêches Melba, L’Art Culinaire Française, 1976 and Les Meilleures Recettes de Françoise Bernard, 2001. Pêches à la Cardinal - Pêches glacées à la Melba - Les Desserts by Henri-Paul Pellaprat, 1937

You can see what I do… jamieschler.substack.com/p/peche-melba

Si j’ai envie d’une photo de Larousse des années 70 je peux te demander?

😂 My two are the original 1938 and 1984! Fun!

Want the patisserie book

Those cookbooks are beautiful! ❤️📚

Makes me think of Tasting History on YouTube 😂😋

I have a dozen or so, but only ever use a 1950s Joy of Cooking. The edition that still had opossum in it.

I love that.

We used to have a much wider range of foods. Old cookbooks are awesome. Things you would never know of. I occasionally torture my wife with something strange. She tolerates me.

And cooking - though I think you prefer baking more. 😊🥧

I do!!!

See? I knew it. 😊 🥧

Haha…. I hate cooking. There were days my family would come home to cake for dinner 😂

…Wait. Is that a problem? 😜

Nope

Those are beautiful.

Me too! That and vintage/antique gardening books.

I learned to cook with my mom’s very early edition of The Joy of Cooking- so well used it was missing a cover 💜

my mother had at least 3 100+ year old Dutch cookbooks. when she emigrated to nz , she made special room to take 1 of them , when my uncles returned to Holland , they brought the other 2. she barely used them except for at dutch xmas day , to make treats for dad.

You must have just about the best collection of old cookbooks in all of France!

I wish I had more but the classics are so hard to come by! I’m thrilled I found a third edition of Brillat-Savarin’s Physiologie du Goût at our monthly brocante and only €5 ! Worn but lovely!

Oh goodness! A treasure.

Me too! I read them like novels. 😂

That's a fine collection... Looking for and buying old cookbooks is my go-to souvenir when traveling - I feel it's a mild addiction!

If you ever find any French classics I’ll pay you for them!!

I'll keep that in mind...

So, immediately my brain flashed on To Serve Man