Bull Cook and Authentic Historical Recipes, All Three Volumes in As-if New Condition.

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Bull Cook and Authentic Historical Recipes:  Bull Cook and Authentic Historical Recipes and Practices, Volumes I, II and III. (I can’t believe we found all three of these volumes at one time and in such great condition.) Volume I was first published in 1960.  This copy was published in 1965.  Volume II was first published in 1968, with this copy printed in 1973. And, Volume III was published in 1972. All Herter’s cookbooks were self-published.  All written by George Leonard Herter and Berthe Herter.  Published by Herter’s in Waseca, Minnesota. Hardcover with gold boards.  The cookbooks have instructions on how to track, kill, clean, and cook just about every creature on the planet, along with comments about and illustrations of great art, exotic plants, famous architecture, plus national and international affairs. Herter writes about everything from United States taxes policy to topics like “Dessert Monks of Souvigny” and drinks like moose milk. (Like National Geographics, Herter published pictures of native women without shirts.) And, of course, there are recipes, including many recipes for alcoholic beverages, along with related colorful tales.

These cookbooks are some of the world’s wackiest cookbooks, in my humble opinion. Volume III has the distinction of publishing a chapter on drinks, with Herter’s interpretation of the history of the Mai Tai (complete with picture of topless woman–he must have searched high and low for those National Geographic-type pictures,) Moose Milk (with wanderings into Castro’s Cuba and Belgium beer,) a short biography of Ernest Hemingway with emphasis on his drinking habits, details and recipes for drinks called the Maria Aperitif, the Erector, and the Zubrowka, the Papa Bombay, the Flint Lock (Herter claims this was the first drink invented in North America, and more.
and Herter’s was a sporting goods company in Minnesota from 1939 until 1994.  (See a short, sweet history by writer Bill Klein, here:   http://www.startribune.com/sports/outdoors/blogs/128596073.html.)  They mailed out the Herter’s catalog across the world.  My own sportsman father poured over that catalog until it became dog-eared.  He kept the back issues in a special cabinet at our lake cottage in Indiana.  When I first discovered these cookbooks, I was astonished.  Mr. Herter was a crazy man!

I digress as much as Herter did.  These cookbooks are all in mint condition.  Gift quality.