Fall is on our heels! School has started and schedules just got a bit more hectic!
These book recommendations reflect an autumn theme. You’ll also find some cookbooks designed to save you time and energy without compromising the appeal of your meal.
FEASTS, FRUITS & VEGGIES
Spirited Cooking: An Introduction to Wine in the Kitchen by Robert Ackart
Lee Bailey’s Soup Meals: Main Event Soups in Year-Round Menus
…And Be Merry! A Feast of Light Verse and a Soupcon of Prose about the Joy of Eating assembled by William Cole
Feast Without Fuss by Pamela Harlech
Easy Recipes for Wild Game and Fish by Ferne Holmes
Ford Times Favorite Recipes A Traveler’s Guide to Good Eating at Home and on the Road (Vol. VII) by Nancy Kennedy; published by Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, 1979
Small Feasts: Soups, Salads & Sandwiches edited by Marilee Matteson
Soup: Superb Ways with a Classic Dish; Debra Mayhew, contributing editor
A Cook’s Tour of San Francisco: The Best Restaurants and Their Recipes by Doris Muscatine; published by Scriber, New York, 1963
A Feast of Families by Virginia Stem Owens
Feasts For Two: A Cookbook of Menus and Recipes for Fifty Fabulous Meals by Paul Rubenstein
A Literary Feast: Recipes and Writings by American Women Authors from History edited by Yvonne Schofer
The New York Times Bread and Soup Cookbook by Yvonne Young Tarr
Feasts and Friends: Recipes from a Lifetime by Sylvia Thompson
Homemade with Love compiled by Wakarusa Missionary Church
Chez Panisse Vegetables by Alice Waters and the cooks at Chez Panisse
FESTIVALS
Indianapolis Memories Festivals, Cookbook edited by Ginny Berg; art by K. P. Singh; published by Memories Press, Indianapolis, IN, 1997
Foods from Harvest Festivals and Folk Fairs: The Best Recipes from a Guide to Food Happening Across the Nation by Anita Borghese
Festivals and Plays of Children: A Series of Rhythmic Plays and Dances Arranged According to the Seasons of the Year by Francis M. Arnold, published by Willis Music Company, Cincinnati, 1921
Noteworthy: A Collection of Recipes from the Ravinia Festival (an outdoor music venue in Highland Park, Illinois; 2024 season ends September 15th) by Joan S. Freehling
Foods and Festivals of the Danube Lands (Germany, Austria, former Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Romania, Russia) by Lila Perl; published by World, Cleveland, 1969
FIREPLACES
Book of Successful Fireplaces: How to Build Them (18th Edition); published by The Donley Brothers Company, Cleveland, OH, 1965
The American Fireplace: Chimneys, Mantelpieces, Fireplaces & Accessories by Henry J. Kauffman; published by Thomas Nelson, Nashville, 1972… and by Masthof Press Morgantown, PA, 1996
The Praise of Chimney Sweepers by Charles Lamb; published by J. M. Dent & Sons, London, 1929
FASHION
How The World Is Clothed (New Industrial Readers) by Carpenter; published by American Book Company 1929, 1908, NY
Magic Names of Fashion by Ernestine Carter
Terms of Adornment: The Ultimate Guide to Accessories by Deborah Chase; everything you need to know about buying, collecting, wearing, and caring for them
Obsession: The Lives and Times of Calvin Klein by Steven Gaines and Sharon Churcher
Toiles For All Seasons: French & English Printed Textiles by Starr Siegele
Cosell by (Howard) Cosell, edited by Mickey Herskowitz; published by Playboy Press, Chicago, 1973; you can hear his voice just looking at the cover
FARMING/FALL FOLIAGE
American Heritage Autumn 1950 edited by Earle Newton; published by American Association for State and Local History, Harrisburg, 1950
Aspen in Color: Seasons of a Mountain Town by Warren Ohlrich
Speak to the Earth: Pages from a Farmwife’s Journal by Rachel Peden; a book of rural virtues and a naturalist’s philosophy
FICTION/FOLKLORE/FUN
The Cricket on the Hearth: A Fairy Tale of Home (Christmas story) by Charles Dickens. Did you know crickets were a symbol of good luck?
The Academic Life (poetry) by Harlan L. Hagman (1911-2002; Professor Emeritus Wayne State University); published by Center for Health Education, Detroit, 1983; inscribed by author front endpaper
Turkey Goes to School by Wendi Silvano; illustrated by Lee Harper
Johnny Appleseed Source Book by Robert C. Harris; published by Public Library Fort Wayne and Allen County, Fort Wayne, Indiana
Autumn in Venice by Ernest Hemingway and His Last Muse Andrea di Robilant
The Pumpkin Rollers by Elmer Kelton
On This Rockne: A Notre Dame Mystery by Ralph McInerny, a Notre Dame professor known for his Father Dowling mysteries adapted for TV 1987-1991
History of an Autumn by Christopher Morley; he describes this book as his “Time Capsule”
FAITH
The Feast of Fools by Harvey Cox; theological examination of festivity (the capacity for genuine revelry and joyous celebration) and fantasy (the faculty for envisioning radically alternative life situations), both vital to contemporary human life and faith.
Illustrated Dictionary of Religions: Figures, Festivals, and Beliefs of the World's Religions by Philip Wilkinson; published by DK Publishing, London, 1999
FRONTIER
Stagecoach West: The Story of the Frontier Express Lines That Linked the Nation Together by Ralph Moody
The Fields of Eden by Richard S. Wheeler; mid-1840s journeys from the Missouri frontier to the Pacific Northwest/Oregon
FRIGHT/FUTURE (thinking ahead to Halloween)
The Literary Ghost: Great Contemporary Ghost Stories edited by Larry Dark (love the name)