Kitchen Garden Books

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The Artful Old, Odd & Unusual. Fine Volumes of Cuisine & Horticulture. Other sideline collections feature early Asian and Hispanic cook books printed in English.

After a long and varied career in the food world, I opened an antiquarian book store in January 2004 dedicated to the literature of the kitchen and garden. Through the years my personal collection reached several thousand volumes which forms the core of my stock. At the heart of the collection are 19th century American cookery books, charitable and classics. Since moving to the South, it has been my pleasure to acquire books from every lip-smackin' Southern state. There are a hundreds of volumes on French and Italian cooking, many in the native language. The bookstore is tucked back off the road in a palmetto, long leaf pine and magnolia setting on an acre of Panhandle hammock. Formerly law offices, the space now is crowded with bookcases in every room. The wrap around porch invites lingering over an old tome or two. Appointments welcome anytime.

09/22/2026

Aimee Nelson, do you vaccinate the girls like this?

Can you guess which chicken vaccine this is?
A. Newcastle vaccine
B. Gumboro vaccine
C. Fowl pox vaccine
D. Marek’s vaccine

Checking in with Bonnie Slotnick after Friday's arrest outside the Harry Styles pop-up 09/21/2026

Follow-Up on the arrested cookbook store owner Bonnie Slotnick

Checking in with Bonnie Slotnick after Friday's arrest outside the Harry Styles pop-up EV Grieve is the leading news, entertainment and lifestyle blog about the East Village of New York City.

evgrieve.com 09/21/2026

Bonnie Slotnick Books has been operating her shop for 29 years in NYC. This is a "compelling" read about her arrest in her bookstore. 😆 GO BONNIE!!!📚

evgrieve.com

06/10/2026

Foodguessr presents you with a photo, ingredients and a description of a dish, and you have to guess what country it’s from.
Trivia Food Pursuit!😋

FoodGuessr - Explore the world by food! Test your knowledge of geography, food, and culture with FoodGuessr. Challenge yourself and compete with friends to see who can guess where these world dishes are from!

Book and Ephemera Fair Online 06/05/2026

https://getmansvirtual.com/michael-r-thompson-rare-books-1/putnams-homemaker-series-10-volumes-1
This set of books I sold at auction in 2018 and continues to increase in value today.

Book and Ephemera Fair Online Ten volumes, complete, written under the pseudonym of “Olive Green.” Small octavo. Various paginations. Myrtle Reed used the pseudonym “Olive Green” for her cookbooks.

05/29/2026

"a line from Pool House by Mary H.K. Choi:"

05/27/2026

Toilette greening project. 🪴🍃🍃🪴

05/22/2026

Added signs to the Top Self. 🍷 W**e or Eat. Eats are battery lighted. 🔦🍴🍽️🥢🥣

05/20/2026

This is my next Bookstore project. Procuring low-light-loving plants to green-up Le Toilet. The hanging fixtures were already in the garden room inventory. It just occurred to me that the three “shower shelf nooks” can hold three more. 😃🪴

05/14/2026

About 8-10 days ago I bought a nice pineapple, heavy-ish for its size. I passed the time watching it reach the peak of ripeness. As soon as I walked into the kitchen today from the bookstore there was a sweet aroma. It was ready to burst open.

I grabbed the crown and wacked the whole pineapple 🍍 hard several times on the counter on the bottom of the fruit to “unseat” the plug at the center, maybe like a belly button. I removed the crown grabbing it with one hand and twisted it off. I used a knife to help get my fingers around the plug in the bottom and gently pulled.

The whole idea wast to enjoy each eye of the pineapple like a personal size bite. I did use the knife to make some of the plugs easier to pull out, but wow! What a great afternoon refresher.

Try it. Watch Rosamund Pike deconstruct a pineapple. No-Knife technique. TikTok.

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