“Modern Pen Lettering”

Short, simplified methods with modern lettering pens—Offering a comprehensive selection of the most practical alphabets, decorative borders, show card stunts and artistic designs for Teachers, Students, Commercial Artists, Engrossers, Draftsmen and Card Writers.

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Before there was Harold McGee’s On Food & Cooking and before Michael Ruhlman’s The Elements of Cooking there was The Grocer’s Encyclopedia by Aretemas Ward. This extensive work from 1911 is available online for free here.

I picked up quite a few books when I was in Texas at Half Price Books and other places.

Technically, I have already finished the one on the top, Gentlemen of the Road. It is a cool adventure novel and was originally going to be called Jews With Swords. It was fun to read and also had a neat little map on the endpapers, so you can remember where the hell Khazaria is.

I am almost all the way through the brilliant Elements of Cooking by Michael Ruhlman. I guess you could say it’s a sort of MLA handbook for French Cooking written out like a glossary.

The Zen of Fish looks promising. I guess it’s all about sushi and where it all comes from.

Next in the stack is a book about the German type designer Paul Renner.

Sitting on the bottom is a nifty little book about old menu design. fun!