The Grocer's Encyclopedia: A Compendium of Useful Information Concerning Foods of All Kinds. How They are Raised, Prepared and Marketed. How to Care for Them in the Store and Home. How Best to Use and Enjoy Them--and Other Valuable Information for Grocer…

748 pp. Chromolithographic plates, black-and-white photographs and illustrations. "The Grocer's Encyclopedia (New York City, 1911) is a book about the growing, preparation, and marketing of foods that was written and published by Artemas Ward, an author and an advertising and marketing innovator who also developed several other successful businesses that brought him great wealth with which he was very generous, becoming noted as a philanthropist. The encyclopedia covers more than 1200 topics from Abalone to Zwetschgenwasser, with 80 color pages and 449 illustrations in all.[1] The encyclopedia has 12 pages on cheese, 20 on wine, 16 on tea, 7 on oysters. It also contains information on Kosher foods, "new" meats such as Kangaroo tails, Cold Storage, Adulteration, Labels, and Guilds.[1]"--Wikipedia