Ephemera With Food As The Subject

 There are so many wonderful pieces of ephemera with food as the subject. Companies who canned foods, sold food products, labeled food crates and containers along with recipe books and much more are all items that we find on a regular basis. Let's face it, food was a major source of advertising and can be found in all sorts of ephemera.

I am really looking forward to a new book scheduled to be released around October of 2010. Culinary Ephemera: An Illustrated History (California Studies in Food and Culture) by William Woys Weaver can be ordered now in hardcover.

We are promised an unprecedented assortment of ephemera or paper collectibles related to food in the upcoming book. Weaver offers an extraordinary collection of enchanting designs and forgotten motifs that will stir our imaginations. The book offers images of postcards, match covers, menus, labels, posters, brochures, valentines, packaging, advertisements, and other materials from 19th and 20th century America.

It seems to me that this will be a book that will help the collector of ephemera along with those of us who sell these little pieces of history. I've ordered my copy and can hardly wait to start studying the pages!