Introduction

I started collecting vintage recipe booklets over a decade ago in brooklyn. My then toddler-aged son and I had just dropped off his older brother at art class, when we stumbled upon a nearby antique/junk shop. The shop’s door was open, and as I pushed the stroller past and peered in, several boxes filled with brightly colored antique recipe pamphlets, illustrated with baked goods and baking ingredients, caught my eye. I had recently started working as a junior baker at the hot, new Brooklyn bakery, Baked, and I was completely preoccupied with baking, eating, and reading about all things sweet. The pamphlets looked like they’d be right up my old-school-dessert-obsessed alley.