02/11/2026
Some early and scarce English-language Chinese cookbooks. There are lots more Chinese (and Thai, Burmese, Korean, Japanese, Malaysian, etc.) cookbooks to choose from in the shop! Please CALL or EMAIL to ask about these. 212-989-8962 [email protected]
• Bosse, Sara, and Onoto Watanna. Chinese-Japanese Cook Book, Rand McNally, Chicago & New York, 1914. $200
• Chan, Shiu Wong. Chinese Cook Book. Frederick Stokes, New York,1917. First edition. “The first Chinese cookbook written in English by a Chinese author.” $600
• Wong, Nellie C. Chinese Dishes for Foreign Homes. Kelly and Walsh, Shanghai, Hong Kong & Singapore. 2nd rev. enlarged ed., 1930; 1932 printing with “coins” to binding $150
• Searle, Townley. Strange Newes From China: A First Chinese Cookery book. E.F. Dutton, New York. n.d. [first U.S. ed.,1932] $200
• Chao, Lilian. The Kitchen God: A Chinese Cook Book. Peiping (Beijing), self-published, n.d. c.1948. $80
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