Mrs. Appleyard's Kitchen by Louise Andrews Kent | 1942 FIRST EDITION Vintage Cookbook | Bixley Shop

Mrs. Appleyard's Kitchen cookbook was written by Louise Andrews Kent in 1942. This is a first edition, library copy of the book. According to the dust jacket...

"Mrs. Appleyard's Kitchen is first of all, a book to be read. Everyone - man or woman - who liked Mrs. Appleyard's Year will like this. It is also an exceedingly practical volume, with accurate, carefully planned recipes for the special dishes that have the true Appleyard flavor, recipe that will send any woman to the kitchen with a new vision of the fun of cooking."

ABOUT THE AUTHOR (Courtesy of Wikipedia)
Louise Andrews Kent (1886 – 1969) was an American writer. She was born in Brookline, Massachusetts, in 1886 and graduated, in 1909, from Simmons College School of Library Science, where she was president of her senior class and editor of the college paper. She became a newspaper columnist and writer of children's literature and cookbooks. She wrote a newspaper column, Theresa’s Tea Table, in the Boston Traveller under the pen name of Theresa Tempest and later authored a series of cookbooks as Mrs. Appleyard. Kent, also as Mrs. Appleyard, wrote a quarterly feature on food for Vermont Life magazine for many years.

BIXLEY NOTES
• Mrs. Appleyard's Cookbook
• Written by Louise Andrews Kent
• FIRST EDITION
• 319 page linen hardcover
• Published by Houghton Mifflin, 1942
• Book measures 8 1/4" x 5 1/2"

VINTAGE NOTES
• In very good condition overall
• Binding is nice and tight
• Front cover has some shelf-wear
• Dust jacket is missing 
• Library stamps on inside front page
• Pages appear to be in great shape

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