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Cookbooks

Posted on July 26, 2018January 17, 2019 By Ann Thompson

“The Thou­sand Recipe Chinese Cook­book” (by Gloria Bley Miller). Artist: Earl Thol­lander Known for the many books that he wrote and illus­trated while drawing on loca­tion, Earl Thol­lander created a most masterful collec­tion of a specific culi­nary tech­nique. The collec­tion was first printed in 1966. It had a hard cover and 926 pages of recipes – instruc­tions and illus­tra­tions. Earl created the 400 illus­tra­tions – he described his method as ​“sitting at great number of loca­tions, right on the side­walk in the bustle of San Francisco’s Chinese commu­ni­ties”. There were also illus­tra­tions of areas in China and a complete study of the cooking tools and prod­ucts – so much a part of described cuisine. The book was reprinted through the 1960s, ​’70s,’80s and ​’90s with each with a different cover. The white cover seems the most compat­ible with the enclosed artwork. Even the soft­cover version in 1984 weighed over three pounds.

Earl Thol­lander Illustrations

Earl Thollander Chinese Cookbook 60s cover
Earl Thol­lander Chinese Cook­book 60s cover 
Earl Thollander Chinese Cookbook 70s cover
Earl Thol­lander Chinese Cook­book 70s cover 
Earl Thollander Chinese Cookbook 80s cover
Earl Thol­lander Chinese Cook­book 80s cover 
Earl Thollander Chinese Cookbook 90s cover
Earl Thol­lander Chinese Cook­book 90s cover 
Earl Thollander Chinese Cookbook
Earl Thol­lander Chinese Cookbook 
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Earl Thollander Chinese Cookbook
Earl Thol­lander Chinese Cookbook 
Earl Thollander Chinese Cookbook
Earl Thol­lander Chinese Cookbook 
Earl Thollander Chinese Cookbook
Earl Thol­lander Chinese Cookbook 
Earl Thollander Chinese Cookbook
Earl Thol­lander Chinese Cookbook 
Earl Thollander Chinese Cookbook
Earl Thol­lander Chinese Cookbook 
Earl Thollander Chinese Cookbook
Earl Thol­lander Chinese Cookbook 
Earl Thollander Chinese Cookbook
Earl Thol­lander Chinese Cookbook 
Earl Thollander Chinese Cookbook
Earl Thol­lander Chinese Cookbook 
Earl Thollander Chinese Cookbook
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Earl Thollander Chinese Cookbook
Earl Thol­lander Chinese Cookbook 
Earl Thollander Chinese Cookbook
Earl Thol­lander Chinese Cookbook 
Earl Thollander Chinese Cookbook
Earl Thol­lander Chinese Cookbook 
Earl Thollander Chinese Cookbook
Earl Thol­lander Chinese Cookbook 
Earl Thollander Chinese Cookbook
Earl Thol­lander Chinese Cookbook 
Earl Thollander Chinese Cookbook
Earl Thol­lander Chinese Cookbook 
Earl Thollander Chinese Cookbook
Earl Thol­lander Chinese Cookbook 
Earl Thollander Chinese Cookbook
Earl Thol­lander Chinese Cookbook 
Earl Thollander Chinese Cookbook
Earl Thol­lander Chinese Cookbook 

“Sunset Recipe Annual, 1995 Edition” Artists: David Broad and Alice Harth. This, a 256 page, hard­cover book, includes an abun­dance of (289) beau­tiful photographs and the artistic touches of David Broad and Alice Harth. The book offers no printed credits to artists and photog­ra­phers. Names were printed tight to the photographs and David placed his name in his art and Alice signed with her initials.
David Broad, who’s other art styles have been featured in a past Geezer Gallery posting, was the artist bringing his unique humorous style to this annual collec­tion of recipes. Here, below, are exam­ples of just some of his15 illus­tra­tions in the book. Alice Harth, had a long asso­ci­a­tion with Sunset Publishing Corpo­ra­tion. Alice presented 51 illus­tra­tions of the foods next to the written recipes. These illus­tra­tions required her to create a display of the food and she had to devise the setting for each, with appro­priate deco­ra­tive objects appro­priate to the prepa­ra­tion and prepared foods. These render­ings did not reflect her normal artistic style, but were real­istic to aid in showing the 51 recipes – an alter­na­tive to the already exten­sive amount of photographs in the publication.
(Two exam­ples of Alice’s recog­nized indi­vidual style are shown here, also.)

David Broad Illustrations

David Broad Cookbook
David Broad Cookbook 
David Broad Cookbook
David Broad Cookbook 
David Broad Cookbook
David Broad Cookbook 
David Broad Cookbook
David Broad Cookbook 
David Broad Cookbook
David Broad Cookbook 
David Broad Cookbook
David Broad Cookbook 
David Broad Cookbook
David Broad Cookbook 
David Broad Cookbook
David Broad Cookbook 
David Broad Cookbook
David Broad Cookbook 
David Broad Cookbook
David Broad Cookbook 
David Broad Cookbook
David Broad Cookbook 

Alice Harth Illustrations

Alice Harth Cookbook
Alice Harth Cookbook 
Alice Harth Cookbook
Alice Harth Cookbook 
Alice Harth Cookbook
Alice Harth Cookbook 
Alice Harth Cookbook
Alice Harth Cookbook 

Sunset’s ​“Gifts from Your Kitchen”, first printed in 1988. Artist: Dick Cole. Dick Cole was known for his fine art and commer­cial water­color paint­ings. I was surprised to see that there were some of his illus­tra­tions in this Sunset book. Besides the deco­ra­tive illus­tra­tions, Dick had the ability to show cooking proce­dures. Draw­ings that show precise methods – -“hands-on” visual instruc­tions are often a neces­sary part of a recipe and not an example of style so much as the need to show a clear depic­tion of a procedure.

Dick Cole Illustrations

Dick Cole
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Dick Cole
Dick Cole 
Dick Cole
Dick Cole 
Dick Cole
Dick Cole 

A Raisin Recipe Booklet

A Raisin Recipe Booklet
A Raisin Recipe Booklet 
A Raisin Recipe Booklet
A Raisin Recipe Booklet 
A Raisin Recipe Booklet
A Raisin Recipe Booklet 
A Raisin Recipe Booklet
A Raisin Recipe Booklet 
A Raisin Recipe Booklet
A Raisin Recipe Booklet 
A Raisin Recipe Booklet
A Raisin Recipe Booklet 
A Raisin Recipe Booklet
A Raisin Recipe Booklet 

Above also is a quite unusual booklet of recipes created by the agency, J. Walter Thompson Company. They had the Cali­fornia Raisin Advi­sory Board as a client. I am guessing that was in the early 1970s.
Here, above, are some pages of the simple (12 page plus cover) collec­tion of recipes. The intro tells ​“The history of the little raisin”. The main expense for this simple booklet had to be purchase of the tiny velum envelopes and plastic magni­fiers, the printing of the tiny label reading: ​“RAISIN” and the handling, stapling it all to the inside cover of the folder. The five illus­tra­tions in the booklet were very simple line art. There is no refer­ence about the artist and I do not know the JWT art director on this project.

Ann Thompson

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