ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Wednesday, February 7, 1996 TAG: 9602070074
SECTION: EXTRA PAGE: 8 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: CANDY SAGON, WASHINGTON POST
Interest in facsimiles of historic cookbooks is growing. Several small publishers, such as Applewood Books, University of South Carolina Press and University of Iowa Press, are reprinting antique cookbooks from the early 19th and 20th centuries and finding a widespread market among collectors, serious cooks, museum gift shops and catalogues.
Joe Carlin, a nutritionist with the U.S. Administration on Aging in Ipswich, Mass., has been collecting historic cookbooks for 15 years. Although he owns several 19th century originals, "over the years they have become harder to come by and, when they are available, prohibitively expensive."
So Carlin started Food Heritage Press, a catalog of facsimile reprints of historical cookbooks available from many of the country's small publishers.
What makes these reprints so attractive, says Carlin, is that they are not only affordable, but printed on acid-free paper and often have scholarly introductions that explain the history of the book and its author.
"In many ways, you are getting a better bargain with these reprints," says Carlin.
And, if you keep them in good condition, someday they themselves will be valuable collector's items as well.
To order a catalogue, send $l to Food Heritage Press, P.O. Box 163, Ipswich, Mass. 01938.
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