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Treasury of Favorite Recipes

by Brad McNally | April 18th, 2011

Inside Front Cover by William Sayles

Book Series: One

A few months ago Sara and I were exploring the Goodwill Outlet in Sodo. If you’ve never been to a Goodwill Outlet, it’s where items that fail to sell in the retail stores are dumped into huge bins and sold at 75% off. You can pick up a bunch of different items there from records to dart boards to sketchy looking tools. They even sell clothes by the pound.

We went through the whole place and eventually landed in the books section. There was mountains of books piled with no particular rhyme or reason. While searching through the piles, Sara picked up “The Ford Treasury of Favorite Recipes from Famous Eating Places,” a mouth full of a name if I’ve ever heard one. She opened up to the inside cover and we immediately knew that we had found a gem. Originally published in 1950 by Simon and Schuster for the Ford Motor Company and designed by Artists and Writers Guild Inc., Treasury is a collection of recipes, paintings, and descriptions of famous and not so famous restaurants around the United States.

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Books = <3

by Sara McNally | September 2nd, 2010

Brad and I are both starting new books this week. This is a very exciting thing for us. We’ve been saving them, so that we have lots of thrilling pages to read while on our anniversary road trip! (We haven’t had a weekend together in almost 6 months, so this is a big deal.) Brad is reading A Game of Thrones and i’m reading The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. No spoilers, please!

In honor of the first crisp, enigmatic page of a new book, here are some new book themed cards just for you! Paste one in an old favorite, or send one to someone you like.

Vintage handset lead type, printed on genuine library checkout cards. The book illustration is by an old favorite, Johnny Gruelle (the creator of Raggedy Ann), and printed with a photopolymer plate.

Can I borrow you?

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