📚 American Cooking

Books with american cooking on their catalogue record, first published between 1796 and 2003, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject american cooking in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 14,621 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Boston Cooking-School cook book	Fannie Merritt Farmer	1896	98
	The Virginia house-wife	Mary Randolph	1824	80
	Good Things to Eat as Suggested by Rufus	Rufus Estes	1911	38
	American cookery	Amelia Simmons	1796	35
	Things mother used to make	Lydia Maria Gurney	1913	28
	The Rumford complete cook book	Lily Haxworth Wallace	1908	23
	Let's cook it right.	Adelle Davis	1947	21
	What Mrs. Fisher knows about old southern cooking, soups, pickles, preserves, etc. ..	Abby Fisher	1881	19
	Betty Crocker's Picture Cook Book	Betty Crocker	1950	16
	Chef Express	Trident Press International	2003	14
	The improved housewife, or, Book of receipts	Webster, A. L. Mrs	1844	12
	A thousand ways to please a husband with Bettina's best recipes	Louise Bennett Weaver	1917	12
	The I hate to cook book	Peg Bracken	1960	12
	New York Times Cook Book	Craig Claiborne	1961	12
	The Settlement cook book	Kander, Simon Mrs.	1930	10
	The James Beard cookbook	James Beard	1959	10
	The experienced American housekeeper, or, Domestic cookery	Maria Eliza Ketelby Rundell	1827	8
	Three meals a day	Maud C. Cooke	1887	8
	A date with a dish	Freda DeKnight	1948	8
	The fireside cook book	James Beard	1949	8
	The Little House Cookbook	Barbara M. Walker	1979	8
	Good and easy cookbook	Betty Crocker	1954	7
	Spoonbread and strawberry wine	Norma Jean Darden	1978	7
	The Good housekeeping cook book	Good Housekeeping Institute (New York, N.Y.)	1933	6
	Best Recipes from the Backs of Boxes, Bottles, Cans, and Jars	Ceil Dyer	1979	6
	The cook's own book	Lee, N. K. M. Mrs.	1832	5
	Household discoveries	Sidney Morse	1908	5
	The Alice Bradley menu-cook-book	Alice Bradley	1936	5
	The household searchlight recipe book	Ida Rigney Migliario	1937	5
	The Williamsburg art of cookery	Helen Claire Duprey Bullock	1938	5

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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