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Betty Crocker's Picture Cookbook, Facsimile Edition
Betty Crocker
Diners, Drive-ins and Dives
Guy Fieri, Ann Volkwein
Diners, Drive-ins, and Dives: the Funky Finds in Flavortown
Aloha Kitchen
Alana Kysar
The First American Cookbook
Amelia Simmons