A very special giveaway (as I write those words – a Very Brady Christmas just popped in my mind and I want it gone!). I love cookbooks! Don’t we all? I am not a great fan of vintage cookbooks although I have a few that I consider classics such as the two cookbooks I am sharing today.
Recently, I was fortunate enough to run across copies of Mary and Vincent Price’s The Treasury of Great Recipes (First Edition) and The Gourmet Cookbook Volumes I and II (in the case) – and since I have these in my collection already – I’m giving them away to one of you!
The Treasury of Great Recipes is very dear to me. I wrote a piece on this great book with an interview of Victoria Price for Tastebook. You can read that here, if you haven’t already. The Gourmet Set is a must have too – over 700 pages each – and they just look cool on your shelf. You’ll look fancy.
Random number generator picked Anne – #131 congratulations!
GIVEAWAY: To enter this giveaway, leave a comment on this post telling me anything at all. This post will be special – you can leave a different comment every day – until May 23rd when I pick a winner. One comment per day per person. It is open to U.S. addresses only. Remember to enter every day! While you are here – scroll through and enter all the other giveaways still open – and good luck! Sharing this post is most appreciated.
This giveaway is open to everyone – not just females who have bore children – males are invited to join in as well. Everyone can enter. This giveaway is sponsored by me. Now I have to bleach my mind to get the Bradys out of there!
Wow! They are beautiful! Thanks for the chance.
Would love to have them. I took the Gourmet set on our boat when we sailed for a year or so, but can’t find it now!
I want it I want it. Love the Price cookbook. I have a paperback book of theirs that has movie stars recipes. I used that book until it fell apart and I had memorized it all.
I have long coveted copies of these books. What a terrific find!
I would love these books.
Cookbooks bring me so much joy.
These books would be a treat to own! Thanks for the giveaway!
I think I need to feel fancy. :). Another great giveaway!
Beautiful editions.
Why not another cookbook!
Forget the Bradys, think Bonanza !
This would certainly give my cookbook collection the fancy-ness it needs!
Today I’m telling you that I’ll be back tomorrow to comment again. Insightful, no?
You are so good to us!
Fabulous books! I’d love any of them.
What an amazing giveaway!
I’m very intrigued by the Vincent Price book. His episode of the Muppet Show is my favorite!
I can’t say enough how much I love cookbooks and recipes. I have a great family and would really enjoy winning this! Thank you so much for the opportunity and taking your time to make such a lovely book.
What a great prize. Thanks Jenny.
Oh my…I have been on the look out for the Vincent Price book since discovering it right here on Junkies! Fingers and toes crossed.
My mom had the Gourmet Cookbooks and unfortunately I was unable to retrieve them from her cookbooks after she passed away. Would love to have them.
I’ve been hunting for that! Fingers crossed!
Besides LOVING Vincent Price (one of my son’s name is Vincent!!) I also love cooking and collecting cookbooks. These would be so perfect in my collection. Unfortunately my collection is a lot smaller after we had a water leak in the house that ruined 5 boxes of cookbooks I had put away until we moved to a bigger home! I do so love these! My fingers are crossed – would love to win this!
So sorry to hear about your damaged books. I would be devastated
I love collecting old cookbooks and well, being old myself, can honestly say I grew up loving Vincent Price! I keep my older cookbooks out on display in the kitchen bookshelf…..and I think my daughter-in-law has her eyes on one!!!
Would love these classic cookbooks
What a fine mother’s day gift this would be for someone who loves to cook: like me!
I have been wanting these books so much!
These would be so wonderful to have.
A lifelong Vincent Price fan, he was amazing! What few recipes I’ve seen, I love
Would love to have them. Beautiful books. I have this thing for beautiful books..
I’m entered! 🙂 I would love to have these on my shelf!
Would love to have both!
This would look so nice among my cookbook collection. I covet it!
What a great giveaway! Wonderful books for anyone’s collection. Would LOVE to add to mine!!
I love all things vintage 🙂
Would love love love to get the Vincent Price cookbook. And I can vouch for the awesomeness of the Gourmet ones. Inherited my aunt’s copies years ago.
I love Vincent Price! I was thrilled to learn he loved to cook!
I’ve really appreciated your giveaways!
Vincent Price movies were my favorite when growing up.
You are so generous. Is there a book we should look for that you want?
I want it!
These would be an amazing addition to anyone’s cookbook library, and I’d love to add them to mine 🙂
Thank you for such a generous giveaway! I do like vintage cookbooks, more to read than to cook from, since ingredients and methods change over time.
I’d love to own these books. Thanks for the chance, Jenny.
These are beautiful! Would not only make a wonderful addition to my small collection but would like to try the recipes on my family!
Thank you for this opportunity!
Happy Mother’s Day Jenny!!! I hope your boys are good to you for Mother’s Day!!!
I would love to try many of their recipes.
Nice. Cheers for the giveaway!
I just left a small art gallery in Lakewood Oh specializing in Vincent Price quirky art, among other things. Would love his cookbook.
I love cookbooks I collect them..I have one called The way to a mans heart!! It includes use of the modern gas range!! Have a great day!!
I can see the perfect place for the perfect addition to my cookbook collection. Thanks for the chance
I would love to own these books !
You are so lucky to find these treasures
Beautiful books! Happy Mother’s Day !
Would love to win them. They look fantastic.
It is such a great feeling to know that there are others who love cookbooks as much as I do.
Great giveaway!
One of the many reasons I love Cookbook Junkies. Happy Mother’s Day.
Happy Mothers Day.
Happy mothers day Jenny.
I would so love to have these!
The last vintage cookbook I added to my collection is Eleanor Early’s New England Cookbook from 1954. I really enjoyed reading it, and I’ve got several recipes marked to try, including Applesauce Cake, White Mountain Spice Cake, Harwich Hermits, and Caraway Cookies. Oh, and for Christmas, Mrs. Peter Folger’s Fruit Cake. Fun little book.
Happy mothers day!
Many thanks for the giveaway!
Happy Mother’s Day!
Pick me please 🙂
I love cookbooks!
Thanks for the chance to win this fabulous set of books!
I’ve always wanted Vincent Prices books. Would love this.
We celebrated Mother’s Day with lost of food! Dad sat outside at the grill and I worked the afternoon away inside. BBQ Ribs, Bacon Wrapped Cabbage, Squash Casserole, Crab Ragu, & Sausage Links.
The holidays are all about good food and good family for us. While my family is pretty southern in their tastes they accommodate me when I want to cook something else. The Crab Ragu was not originally on the menu and was added last minute. But it worked out! It was well accepted!
I have never owned these and would love to have them.
I hope you are enjoying the comments. I am.
Awesome giveaway
I’d like these please!
These are both gems. I’d love to include them both in my collection.
Would love to add these to my collection. I remember reading years ago about what a fabulous cook Vincent Price was.
Funny…I just had a new copy of the Price’s book in my hands at B&N over the weekend! What fun it would be to have these books.
I’d love these books!
I’d love to win this set!
What would the world be without the generous cooking of women and mothers?
At Goodwill today, I was sorely tempted by a couple of baking books and the Williams-Sonoma Thanksgiving and Christmas cookbook, but managed to talk myself out of them. So many books, so little shelf space…
Loved the Brady Bunch episode that had Vincent Price in it.
Wow Vincent Price and classic books!! Would love to have these!!
I’ve heard so much about these cookbooks but have yet to see them in person.
These books are real treasures; they are windows into how we lived. And who doesn’t love more cookbooks…
Trying again! Have desired Vincent Price book since reading about it on the Cookbook Junkies. 🙂
wow–a chance to own the famous Vincent Price books! Thanks
I’d love these
I’m ready to rearrange shelves to make room for these. Thanks for increasing the odds with daily comments.
Love this book
I’m on a huge cookbook kick right now, and this giveaway is perfect for me.
Another of my favorite vintage cookbooks is a slim book called Any One Can Bake, “Compiled by the Education Department of the Royal Baking Powder Co.,” from 1929. The name Angie Bell is written in pencil on the first page, along with “May 1929.” I love things like that; it connects me to cooks who have gone before me.
Having these in my collection would fill me with such honor and gratitude. They are gorgeous records of moments in history.
Happy Tuesday.
Jenny rocks!
Checking in everyday. I know whoever wins them will be thrilled.
Would love to have this/these books. A friend has the original Vincent Price cookbook..and I lusted after it.
I have one of his books but not this.
Loves it!!
Hell yeah! Please…
I don’t have the kind of luck to win stuff but Im hoping I win these books!! I love nothing more that sitting and reading a new cookbook!!
Long ago, when I was young and didn’t know better, I made Julia Child’s stuffed deboned turkey. I taped the TV episode where she prepared it, and followed her every move. (And yes, the VCR remote was nasty by the time I was finished–especially the rewind and play buttons.) I even made her duxelles stuffing to cook under the deboned bird. It was fabulous, and I never did it again. But I did it!
I am surviving post Facebook life. LOL
I’d love to own these two books!
Wed , thanks for another chance.
Thanks for another chance to win these treasures.
Pretty please
This afternoon, I went to our local no-kill animal shelter to drop off some stuff for their annual yard sale, and they let me do a little pre-sale shopping. No cookbooks, but I did score a Norpro tortilla press. Now all I have to do is get some masa harina and dig out my Muy Bueno cookbook…
I would so love to own these books !
One more time
these books would be a wonderful addition to my cookbook collection. thanks!
They really are a beautiful set of books.
Friday’s entry into this amazing give away.
Yes!!!
I would love these. Teriffc giveaway!
My go-to applesauce cake recipe is from the two-volume set “The American Heritage Cookbook and Illustrated History of American Eating & Drinking,” copyright 1964, which I picked up at a library sale a few years ago. Sometimes the old recipes are indeed the best.
I have a couple of cookbooks at home that I’m planning on entering in the county fair this year. One is over ninety years old, and I picked it up at a used book sale here on campus for probably $0.50.
Trying again:)
and again 🙂
making up for technical difficulties
ready to throw my phone away…lol
thanks for letting me enter
I need these!
Ever hopeful that these books will be mine.
I learned that Vincent and Mary Price wrote a cookbook right here on your blog.
Love your blog would love to have these books
I love that the set of cookbooks has a vintage look.
My copy of The Betty Furness Westinghouse Cook Book (“Prepared under the direction of Julia Kiene”), copyright 1954, has the following handwritten inscription:
One of Emily’s Cookbooks. She passed away October 26th “36” yrs. Elsie Kranendonk (1970)
That is one of the saddest, sweetest things I’ve ever seen. I don’t know Emily or Elsie, but I like to think I honor them and their cooking whenever I pick up their book.
I think all of us would like to know how you do all you do.
A great giveaway!
I’m quite hungry right now, and to make one of their family recipes would certainly satisfy that hunger.
My love of cookbooks was sparked by a lovely man at a law firm where I had my first serious job, some thirty years ago. He had been a founding member of the firm but was quite elderly when I knew him. Somehow, he found out I was learning to cook, and he took great delight in choosing cookbooks for me, marking recipes that looked good to him (a few of which I made for him and his wife, whom he called “my bride”), and even giving me a subscription to Gourmet magazine. I still use some of those cookbooks, inscribed in his old-man handwriting, with his bookmarks still in place.
Can’t believe my weekend is almost over. Working Sat’s makes for a short weekend. Not enough cookbook time.
Want!
Another influential cookbook set during my early years was The Woman’s Day Encyclopedia of Cookery (copyright 1966). I found a complete set at a yard sale in the early 80s, and over the years, I’ve learned a lot from it. For example, through making the cream of cauliflower soup several times, I learned the basics of a good creamed soup, which I now make with my eyes closed from all sorts of veggies.
I would love to win this giveaway!
My favorite vintage cookbooks are the Time-Life Foods of the World books. Such beautiful photography and wonderful writing…
Daily entry.
Just looking at the few recipes in your review makes my mouth water!
Today is my grandmother’s 83rd Birthday!!!
It is raining again today in Virginia 🙁
Please
May I confess that I am actually ashamed about how many cookbooks I own? But the worst part of it all is that I still want more–and the books in this giveaway are at the top of my wish list. Thanks for this chance!
Love your blog ! Would love to win these!
Thanks for the give-away. These books are treasures–a window into how we ate at a particular point in time. They would be shelved next to Anne Willan’s “Great Cooks and Their Recipes”, or the out of print “The Spice Cookbook”. Love the website–a cookbook is as enjoyable to read as any novel-they have plots, characters, a feel, a setting, etc. plus you can make stuff from them!
Still hoping
Would love to win these!
I need these!!
Would love to have these in my collection
As pretty as all the new cookbooks are, I find that I’m much more likely to reach for an older cookbook–I don’t need glossy paper and professional pictures of every recipe. The exception is canning and food preservation, because food safety has come a long way and I want to make sure my home canned foods are safe as well as delicious, so I only utilize modern cookbooks in that category.
Want them!
The new Vincent Price reissue is great, but there is no substitute for a first edition. Thanks for the chance to win one.
Again please!
Have always wanted the Vincent Price cookbooks
So classic!
These would be so much fun to own.
My most precious cookbook is The American Woman’s Cook Book, edited by Ruth Berolzheimer. My copy was my dear mother’s one and only cookbook. It’s the 1953 edition, so she probably acquired it at about the time she was a young bride. She didn’t really enjoy cooking, and I don’t actually recall her ever using the book (she kept it in a bottom kitchen drawer), but it has a place of honor in my kitchen.
Love your blog !
Absolutely beautiful.
Another entry
Since this is the last day to comment in this fun giveaway, it seems like a great time to express my thanks, not just for the excellent prizes, but for prompting me to take a look at my book shelves and realize just how much I appreciate my vintage cookbooks. I do love them, both for their window into the past and for some wonderful recipes. Thank you!
Anne – I’m leaving the giveaway open until Monday – so comment all weekend. Thank you for your kind words.
Oh my goodness! I’ve been so busy working on a bunch of other things that I almost missed this! fingers crossed!
What a nice addition to anyone’s kitchen. Thank you for the chance.
I would love the Gourmet set, I need something to make my shelves look a little more fancy. Right now the area around my bookshelves is more Nursing Home Chic, courtesy of a hospital bed and several walkers.
Happy Friday! made cookies last night and more tonight–support for my daughter who is having a painting party at the house she is redoing in the morning so I obviously need more sources for recipes (wink wink…) like these wonderful cookbooks. Getting hungry just thinking about reading them…
Please pick me!
…gloomy day here…perfect for curling up and reading classic cookbooks…
I love boxed sets
My fingers are still crossed! 🙂 thanks!
I would be remiss if I didn’t mention that The Fannie Farmer Baking Book is one of my favorites (as is its author, Marion Cunningham). It may not be vintage, but it’s a classic, at least as far as I’m concerned.
If I win, I’ll pass my slightly beat up copy of Treasury to someone else.
These would be so much fun to get!
Deliciousness
would love this! thanks for the opportunity!
Would love to win!
Cannot believe they are 50 years young!
My wife made me do it 🙂
Once more, thanks for this wonderful giveaway. I’ve enjoyed sharing some of my favorite vintage cookbooks and other random things, and I’m grateful for the chance to put these three books on my shelf, not just because they’re gorgeous, but because I would truly love to read them and cook from them. Thank you! 🙂
Thanks again, Jenny! You rock!
My holy grail quest in thrift stores hasn’t been very successful so far. This is my next best chance! LOL!
Thanks for the chance to win. Extra day off this coming weekend–perfect to leisurely leaf through some new cookbooks!
too late or last chance…congrats to whoever won these awesome books.
Tomorrow is my birthday. Maybe I will be lucky and you will pick me! Hehe 🙂
Plse pick me! Per Favore
I am a vintage mother.
Great find!!
Can we still enter?
This is just what the Dr ordered to help me recover from surgery……
My son just got married over the weekend, I would love to be able to give this to his new wife.
When I’m looking through cookbooks at thrift stores, I find I’m much more likely to reach for an older book than a shiny new one. What’s up with that? And I love it when I find handwritten notes in the margins, or a yellowed newspaper clipping of a recipe being used as a bookmark. Maybe because I taught myself to cook as an adult, these connections to the past mean more to me because I don’t have any of my own.