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Went to one of my favorite antique stores today and found this book. I put it down once...then decided how wonderful and interesting reading after I turned a few pages. Scooped it up for my Listia friends! Bilingual -
I don't know if this is a first or second edition, the first pages are missing, perhaps authors names, date published, and a few intro pages. Research says it was compiled by a group of women in Occupied Japan after WW2. It is written in English & Japanese. Owned by one who knew both languages, there and many notes in both languages with additional recipes added, perhaps from Japan. But they are mainly American dishes! After WW2 American men took Japanese wives, many did who were there. Recipes were written in English on the left of the page and on the right in Japanese. There are indexes for both!

It is uncertain whether these cook books were for maids or the wives. I've read conflicting ideas on that. Hard saying how many pages in this old hard cover book as the recipes are numbered but there looks to be 200+ pages. The last owner had added many cut out newspaper and magazine recipes too! It's loaded! Super photo prints to teach and learn as shown too, PLEASE enlarge pictures!

Now, the condition: FAIR to POOR. While it appears the recipes are all present, there still could be several missing, the binding is apart and covers detached. The binding is loose as shown in picture 4. If 50 recipes are missing, there are still 300+ there. It's hard saying as the pages are NOT numbered, only the recipes were numbered! The book was held together with string as you will also get it , and I'll wrap it in plastic wrap to protect what is there. Pages slightly yellowed with age and much personal writing inside for cooking and recipes. BOTH as shown in many recipes are a mixture of English & Japanese! Quite fun to see!

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Omg is this cool or what. This will definitely help me practice my Japanese reading. Thats my weak point! Already yr fan of course.w&will b bidding!

Sep 27th, 2015 at 10:53:37 AM PDT by

I learned 3 phrases years ago, can't write them tho. Great if it gets your Japanese oiled again! VERY interesting read and so much added, it's incredible!

Sep 27th, 2015 at 11:05:24 AM PDT by

Yes its the additions from past owners that grab me with things like this. You can almost feel the history and where it's been!

Sep 27th, 2015 at 1:23:23 PM PDT by

whats fun is that the additions are in both English & Japanese, mostly pencil.

Sep 27th, 2015 at 1:24:18 PM PDT by

Yes we were a more worldly country back then, we were not afraid of "outsider"immigrants, we actually embraced others and taught them our ways.

I love looking back into the 1940s while it was war time, the folks were just all around nicer humans.

Sep 28th, 2015 at 10:06:52 AM PDT by

technology and generations and politics changed things...and much more.

Sep 28th, 2015 at 12:37:01 PM PDT by

Nice Auction

Sep 20th, 2015 at 11:29:10 AM PDT by

!!ty

Sep 20th, 2015 at 2:02:26 PM PDT by

I have a book like this that my grandmother gave me when I moved out on my own. She told me it was one of her school books. The one she gave me is bilingual in Assyrian , when I asked her why she told me that when she was in school there were many Assyrian immigrants in her school district, so the books were made so all the girls could read them. She also had a book that taught proper cleaning procedures for the home. I laughed when I saw some like cleaning the frigedaire, oven and stovetop. But many of the tricks in the book have helped me clean up without chemicals.

What a great listing you have here. A window into the past.

Sep 28th, 2015 at 10:01:52 AM PDT by

That's very interesting! I really enjoyed reading that. The research on this book said that it was during and after World War 2 when many of our American soldiers stayed in Japan or talk Japanese wives. Is help them understand and deal with American ways back then. Quite different than now isn't it...

Sep 28th, 2015 at 10:04:40 AM PDT by

Great auction!

Sep 30th, 2015 at 5:03:05 PM PDT by

Ty!

Sep 30th, 2015 at 5:04:29 PM PDT by

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