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Here is a really interesting piece of cookbook history lost. It is a book called "Papa Stahl's Wild Stuff Cookbook" and it talks of using rarely though of ingredients such as daylilly tubers, sassafras, cattail, acorn flour, and other items. The book has 39 pages, paperbound and stapled. I have a feeling that this item is a very rare example of this fascinating book. I have found a little bit of information about Papa Stahl on the internet but I haven't really run across much about this book. If anyone has any hints, I would welcome them.
Category
Books and Manuscripts
Medium
paper
Distinguishing marks
just a very eclectic cookbook
Condition
Fair
History
I found this in an old house I helped clean out.
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Re: Papa Stahl's Wild Stuff Cookbook
Papa Stahl is still around and kicking but the book your right is rare , if you go to amazon and search it you will find two listings with none availabe , you could sell it here and probably list it at 95 dollars since your the only selller but be sure to put it under the right edition , there were two editions the last in 1977 , free to list at amazon but they charge a fee when sold , you can try it on ebay , books and cookbooks and texas collecibiles are all crossover markets for this book, The two major book sellers of out of print books do not have a copy of this either making it very rare , be sure to be exact about condition
Re: Papa Stahl's Wild Stuff Cookbook
<p>It's seems none of the Major ( or minor) booksellers have an original copy of this booklet in their inventories, but that can mean two things. One there isn't many of them around, or two, nobody wants a copy ;~) Booklets are specialty items, and values can be all over the map, I would suggest selling it at Specialist Book Auction with what ever reserve they suggest.</p><p> </p><p>Lovejoy </p>
Re: Papa Stahl's Wild Stuff Cookbook
thanks for the help both of you, and on my other items as well. I just grabbed this because of the oddity of it, the fact that he talks about eating cattail and whatnot, thought it might be worth twenty or thirty bucks. but you're right, you never can tell with books. I'm definitely going to photocopy all of it before I would sell it, just to have that kind of offbeat information around.