The Longchamps Cookbook
The Longchamps Cookbook
The Longchamps Cookbook
The Longchamps Cookbook
The Longchamps Cookbook
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The Longchamps Cookbook

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Description

Author: Max Winkler
Illustrator: Robert M. Myers
Publisher: Harper & Brothers
Place: New York
Year: 1954
Edition: First edition, stated
Format: Hardcover with original dust jacket
Page Count: 110
Condition: Vintage hardcover with an original dust jacket showing rubbing, age toning, edge wear, and small tears and chips, particularly near the spine.
ISBN: None

Description:
Published in 1954, The Longchamps Cookbook brings the recipes of a celebrated restaurant chain into the home kitchen. Longchamps was known for serving French-inspired and Continental dishes in elegant dining rooms at prices accessible to the middle class. Its president, Max Winkler, shares the cooking behind that experience in this illustrated first edition. The book offers a direct look at the classic recipes and restaurant style of midcentury New York.A Longchamps location in Washington, D.C.. became one of the first major tablecloth restaurants in the area to welcome Black customers

WINKLER, Max. The Longchamps Cookbook: Wherein Are Revealed Some of the Culinary Secrets That Have Made Longchamps Restaurants Famous. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1954. First Edition, First Printing (with "First Edition" and code "K-D" on copyright page). Octavo. Fine illustrations by Robert M. Myers.
Condition: A spectacular, collector-grade copy. Hardcover is exceptionally tight, clean, and square. The dust jacket is completely unclipped, bright, and presents beautifully with zero significant wear or tearing, now safely preserved beneath an archival Brodart protector. Tucked inside is a pristine mid-century appliance ephemera insert, emphasizing this copy’s near-untouched, time-capsule provenance. Highly recommended for any serious New York history or culinary arts collection.

Why We Love This Book:
Longchamps paired ambitious cooking with memorable Art Deco dining rooms. This cookbook preserves the culinary side of that vanished restaurant world, while its bold original jacket is a wonderful piece of midcentury design. It also includes a piece of vintage ephemera from a mid-century pressure cooker or water-less cookware set (such as Presto or Cutco).


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