Just looking back over this thread and also the article I've just published, I realized that I should clarify something about the price (this goes...
Baker knew a lot of people in the publishing world - a pretty small world at the time, and he was a sociable, ambitious, well connected guy. I...
The first edition of Baker's first cookbook came out in 1939, and a more widely available reprint after 1946, when he had gained a national...
That obituary, by the way, is full of half-correct or just plain wrong information, though the bit about his Xmas night parties is correct!
Baker was a wonderful writer but somewhat sloppy, often mixing memory & desire. Early Time, as it happens, was notoriously sloppy on the editorial...
***UPDATE*** I joined this forum a little more than a year ago to start this thread re. a 1920s "portable bar." A few months after posting, and...
Well I certainly hope that if one of these ever comes to light and I hear about it, it does *not* fetch a premium, because I would like to be able...
I've never seen these before - beautiful!
Thanks so much for this detailed reply! I had not thought about the metal v. wood factor, which of course makes complete sense. I note the...
I don't have a scan of the letter; it's part of a collection of letters between Baker and the publisher of his first cookbook archived in the...
If you find one to sell, please sell it to me! I agree that there must be at least one sitting in someone's house somewhere. My serious...
Well, this is not in any way meant to diminish the work of the writers of those articles about Baker, but my own research on him over the past...
Yep, I know that one, too! Seems hard to believe that not even one of these has survived ... but then again maybe it's not? Maybe it wasn't that...
Also, should have said: the info re Bar-ette Mfg Co in LA is interesting and useful, thanks for that too!
Yes, I know about that, thanks!
Hello! In a 1927 issue of Time Magazine (image provided below) there was a short feature on a portable bar/cocktail wagon called the "Baker...
Hello! I'm an English professor writing a book about a mid-20th century food writer and novelist who (a) wrote for pulp magazines in the 1920s and...
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