Author: Unknown
Title: [Advertisement][Cooking] Reliable Recipes and Helpful Hints
Description: Chicago: Calumet Baking Powder Co. 1909. First edition; 5 x 7; pp. 64 including text to first and last page; stiff chromolithographed wraps bearing the trademark Indian Head to front cover; some age-toning and dust-dulling to covers; small indented dots and scratches to margins; illustrated with b & w drawings; pages mostly clean with a few small spots to edges; wraps a bit weak along staples; good to very good. Apart from numerous recipes using Calumet Baking Powder, the booklet also contains household hints on cleaning, preserving, and overall health, as well as testimonials and a side-by-side comparison Calumet Baking Powder and other brands. Calumet Baking Powder Company was established in 1889 by William Monroe Wright. Calumet Baking Powder is considered symbolic and significant in Stanley Kubrick's "The Shining." Cans of it with the Indian Chief logo appear several times in the movie and it has been said that they signified Kubrick's hidden meaning of a murder of a race. OCLC lists 2 copies in institutions; this the only one in the trade. Ill.: 0. 3.

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