Good Housekeeping's Christmas Cook Book, ©1958. Illustrations by Davi Botts. Davi was busy during the midcentury era, illustrating many paper doll collections, not to mention other cook books. She illustrated another edition of the Good Housekeeping series of cook books: Book of Cookies. Cakes & Tortes was another one (but not GH). Her work shines off the page with joy and fun. A perfect fit to illustrate the Christmas cook book for GH, wouldn't you think? Click on each image to view it larger:
Here's a selection of various spot illos.
Fun use of the separation between the columns here.
A selection of various section headers.
Now, eggnog - that's what I'M talking about. Actually, I dig it without the alcohol. I know, I'm weird.
More links for you to clicky-click:
My Vintage Christmas set
My Vintage Cooking set
My Fun Ephemera set
and...
Vintage Cookbooks Group
Vintage Christmas: 1945-1970 Group
Midcentury Illustrated Group
I love that you post these seasonally, really inspiring stuff <3
ReplyDeleteI have a lot of the Good Housekeeping mid-century cookbooks, but not this one. Now I'm feeling all covet-y.
ReplyDeleteI'm dying to know how one makes Curried Spaghetti, starting with 3 cans of Cream of Chicken!
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