Cooking with a Foreign Accent – A Sunset Book, originally published in 1952, this edition is 1959. Sunset Magazine has been around since 1898 and actually has a rather interesting history.  I believe this is my second Sunset cookbook and they are both very cool.

Look at that cover art, fantastic illustration style!  The expressions are interesting—only the “Chinese” fellow seems happy and joyous and everyone else seems a bit uptight.

There are complete dinner menus featuring recipes from: Java, Greece, Japan, the Philippines, Korea, Siam, China, India, and Lebanon.  But it doesn’t stop there!  Inside this fantastic cookbook you will find recipes from all over the world, including: Germany, Italy, Holland, Sweden, France, Armenia and more!

The photos and illustrations are sparse with one photo per section, and an illustration icon next to each recipe to identify where the recipe comes from. Curiously each icon has a beverage illustration along with a food illustration. For instance: Indian has what looks like a tea pot (or chai) and flat bread; Italy has a bottle of Chianti and a plate of food; France has a bottle of wine, a baguette, and a cassoulet. Fast and easy icons are fun!

All in all the recipes look pretty decent, which I would expect from Sunset.  Most don’t appear too bizarre like some of these vintage cookbook.  Well, you have the English Stuffed Monkeys… again we better check with The Bewildered Brit.  Oh! Before you animal lovers freak out, no actual monkeys, living, dead, or imagined, are used in this dish. No meat at all, actually, so not even mock monkey…

And right now I’m checking out the Gnocchi alla Piedmontese which looks quite tasty indeed! As usual, recipes to follow!