Cooking and Restaurant Magazines

This entry began with a call from my old friend and bookseller par excellence, Rusty Mott of Sheffield Massachusetts, offering me a broken run of a rare cooking magazine The Table.

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Magazines and the American Experience

The first successful magazine proudly proclaimed itself as The American Magazine in 1744. Magazines in the colonial era became the clarions of revolutionary thought, and the first printed statement of American independence appeared in Thomas Paine’s Pennsylvania...

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