The Miss America Cookbook book cover, featuring a blue-to-purple gradient background with gold and white typography and a central photo of a crowned Miss America in a white gown raising her hand.
innterior book pagefeaturing a handwritten black ink message and signatures. The item is shown under warm, direct sunlight casting a shadow across the top-left corner.
A close-up of a vintage book's printed copyright page, showing black text on aged beige paper with a faint embossed logo in the background.
half titleof The Miss America Cookbook by Ann-Marie Bivans, showing a beige cover with red and black typography and a small red crown emblem.
The back cover of the book 'More Than 425 of the Favorite Recipes of Miss Americas and Contestants' by Rutledge Hill Press, featuring a dark maroon background with a central tan panel containing recipe titles, quotes, small portrait photos, and a barcode.
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The Miss America Cookbook book cover, featuring a blue-to-purple gradient background with gold and white typography and a central photo of a crowned Miss America in a white gown raising her hand.innterior book pagefeaturing a handwritten black ink message and signatures. The item is shown under warm, direct sunlight casting a shadow across the top-left corner.A close-up of a vintage book's printed copyright page, showing black text on aged beige paper with a faint embossed logo in the background.half titleof The Miss America Cookbook by Ann-Marie Bivans, showing a beige cover with red and black typography and a small red crown emblem.The back cover of the book 'More Than 425 of the Favorite Recipes of Miss Americas and Contestants' by Rutledge Hill Press, featuring a dark maroon background with a central tan panel containing recipe titles, quotes, small portrait photos, and a barcode.

The Miss America Cookbook Ann-Marie Bivans Signed 1995 First Edition Hardcover

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Description

Author: Ann-Marie Bivans
Title: The Miss America Cookbook: Favorite Recipes from All 50 States
Recipe Editor: Bill Caligari
Introduction: Phyllis George, Miss America 1971
Foreword: Leonard C. Horn
Publisher: Rutledge Hill Press
Place: Nashville, Tennessee
Year: 1995
Edition: First edition, first printing
Format: Hardcover with dust jacket
ISBN: 1558533281
Condition: Near Fine. Dust jacket protected in a Brodart cover.
Signature: Personally inscribed and signed by Ann-Marie Bivans.

Family recipes and regional specialties share the spotlight with photographs and recollections from the Miss America pageant’s first seventy-five years. Published as its official 75th-anniversary commemorative cookbook, this volume brings together recipes, personal stories, and pageant history.

Author Ann-Marie Bivans is a pageant historian and author who served as a judge for the 1992 Miss America Pageant. She interviewed thirty Miss Americas and also wrote Miss America: In Pursuit of the Crown, an authorized history of the competition. Her familiarity with the organization gives the cookbook a perspective that extends beyond the recipes.

Contributions include Phyllis George’s Warm Chicken Waldorf, Gretchen Carlson’s Hot Crab Canapés, and Susan Powell’s Lemon Squares. Historical photographs, behind-the-scenes recollections, and a “Miss Americas in Review” section give the book lasting interest as Miss America memorabilia.

This Near Fine first edition, first printing is personally inscribed and signed by Bivans, who describes family, friends, and fine food as the “crowning touches” to life. The dust jacket is protected in a Brodart cover