Betty Crocker's Picture Cook Book - 1950 First Edition Fourth Printing with Additional Clipped & Handwritten Recipes camwood ivory In a midcentury kitchen in

In a midcentury kitchen in New York City

Very shiny glaze

light blue

but at the heart of this book is the simple story of a woman successfully trying to navigate her own life on her own terms

It took all those years between 1952 and 1961 to write this cookbook

Betty Crocker's Picture Cook Book - 1950 First Edition Fourth Printing with Additional Clipped & Handwritten Recipes camwood ivory In a midcentury kitchen inTo those of you who asked for a successor to that old brown covered Gold Medal Cook Book which their mothers and grandmother's treasured here it is at last, a new and different cookbook for a new age! (from the dedication page) {HISTORY} Pretty much a classic from the very beginning, Betty Crocker's Picture Cook Book became a favorite, if not the favorite go to instruction and recipe manual upon its debut in 1950. Colorful, energetic in tone and fun