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Thursday, November 19, 2015

The New York weather may be unseasonally warm, but Thanksgiving still turns our thoughts to cozy autumn dishes and curling up with a good book. Plenty of time before and after the holiday to pick up a volume or two about the time of year, the idea behind it - or, of course, the food.

Looking up Thanksgiving in our catalog gives us an eighteenth-century doctor of divinity's The Divine Goodness Displayed, in the American Revolution: A Sermon, Preached in New-York, December 11th, 1783: appointed by Congress, as a day of public thanksgiving, throughout the United States. (It took another 80 years to adopt Thanksgiving Day as an annual national holiday.)

More recent authors present the historical and imagined holiday, as well as some thoughtful consideration of gratitude itself. And plenty of options for the "kids's table": we hold more childrens' stories about Thanksgiving (and thanksgiving) than all related grown-up genres put together.

But when we pulled favorite titles for a small lobby display, no surprise, they all turned out to be cookbooks. If you need some inspiration for any upcoming holiday cooking, take a stroll through Stack 11 - or flip through one of these selections.

An Everlasting Meal: Cooking with Economy and Grace | Tamar Adler (2011)

The Art of Eating Well: An Italian Cookbook | Pellegrino Artusi (1996)

The Pie and Pastry Bible | Rose Levy Beranbaum (1998)

How to Cook Everything Vegetarian: Simple Meatless Recipes for Great Food | Mark Bittman (2007)

Joy of Kosher: Fast, Fresh Family Recipes | Jamie Geller (2013)

On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen | Harold McGee (2004) 

The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook | Deb Perlman (2012)

The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book | Alice B. Toklas (1960) 

Chez Panisse Café Cookbook | Alice Waters (1999)

For Kids and Families

The Jumbo Vegetarian Cookbook | Judi Gillies and Jennifer Glossop (2002)

Chop Chop: The Kids' Guide to Cooking Real Food with Your Family | Sally Sampson (2013)

As ever, we at the Library are thankful for you, our readers. Warm and delicious thoughts for your holiday.


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