Rabelais is always serving up fine books about food, drink, farming and gardening. We carry a sizable stock of rare and out-of-print culinary books, alongside prints, photographs and ephemera, all concerned with the pleasure of the senses. Rabelais also serves those inclined towards thirst. We have books on first growth wines and home beer brewing, cocktail culture and saloon society.
Our shop, in an historic mill in Biddeford, Maine, contains six centuries of fine books on gastronomy. We maintain significant collections of books and ephemera on related fields, including menus, cocktails, distilling, beer and brewing, wild foods and mushroom foraging, cheesemaking and more.
We work with private collectors and institutions to develop collections in fields related to cookery, and appraise individual items and collections for estate, insurance and donation purposes. In addition, we place culinary archives of significance with appropriate institutions.
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Don Lindgren2 Main St., Ste. 18-214
Biddeford, ME 04005
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https://www.rabelaisbooks.com/
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First Edition
Mid-Day Meal, Hotel St. Catherine, Avalon, Santa Catalina Island. July 30, 1919
by [Menu – Hotel St. Catherine (Santa Catalina, Calif.)]
Avalon, Santa Catalina Island, Calif 1919 (click for more details)
First Edition
Menu. January 24, 1890
by [Menu – The Raymond (East Pasadena, Cal.)]
East Pasadena, Cal.; Boston : the hotel; [Robinson Eng. Co. 32 Hawley Street] , 1890 (click for more details)
Substitutes For Flesh Foods: The Vegetarian Cook Book
by Fulton, E.G.
Mountain View, California : Pacific Press Publishing Company , 1904 (click for more details)
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Oriental Culinary Art. An authentic book of recipes from China, Korea, Japan and the Philippines
by Kwon, George I.; Magpiong, Pacifico
Los Angeles, Calif : G.I. Kwon , 1933 (click for more details)
Hawaiian Cook Book: Compiled by the Ladies' Society of Central Union Church
by [Central Union Church (Honolulu, Hawaii); Ladies' Society; McCulley, Helen H. (original compiler)]
Honolulu : Hawaiian Gazette Co , 1909 (click for more details)Recent Catalogs
UNXLD: American Cookbooks of Community Place, vol. 1
THE FIRST volume in a long-term effort to examine American community cookbooks as well as other cookbooks outside the formal genre that express place and/or community.
WITHIN THE CATALOGUE, the items are arranged alphabetically by state, and chronologically within each state. This first offering (of what is expected to be six volumes in all) includes one hundred forty-four community books (and others which address issues of place and community) from Alabama through the District of Columbia, nearly one quarter of which are unrecorded.
WITHIN THE CATALOGUE, the items are arranged alphabetically by state, and chronologically within each state. This first offering (of what is expected to be six volumes in all) includes one hundred forty-four community books (and others which address issues of place and community) from Alabama through the District of Columbia, nearly one quarter of which are unrecorded.
Recent Catalogs
2019 Bibliography Week ABAA Showcase
A short catalogue of items we will be bringing to the 2019 Bibliography Week ABAA Showcase in New York City. The one-day showcase takes place Thursday, January 24th, from 10-4pm, and is located at the French Institute /Alliance Francaise, at 22 East 60th Street. The catalogue, offered here in no particular order, is mostly newly-catalogue printed and manuscript books and ephemera, all related to cookery.