1904 · Mountain View, California
by Fulton, E.G.
Mountain View, California: Pacific Press Publishing Company, 1904. Octavo (18.4 x 12.5 cm.), 268, [3], [1] pages. Second Edition; first published in Oakland in April 1904. with 266 pages. This second edition adds an extra leaf, paged 177-78, with recipes for Horlick's products (advertised at the back), and the index was not reset. An early modern American vegetarian cookbook, including numerous recipes for protose (a gluten- and peanut-based food) and nuttolene, health foods invented and marketed by Kellogg's Sanitas Nut Food Co. (among the advertisers in the book). The author's introductory note, "Why I was impressed to write a cook book," mentions the widespread and pressing concerns about food safety and purity. Includes a short list of vegetarian restaurants and sanitariums worldwide. A bit of light foxing to edges of text block, internally clean and sound. In publisher's decorated binding, printed in green, black, and orange with an attractive design of fruit and grains; titled at spine. Some light staining to rear panel, otherwise near fine. Scarce. [OCLC locates twenty-eight copies (though it is unclear how many institutions were looking at the first and how many the second); Bitting, page 172; not in Dyer]. (Inventory #: 10025)
