Chef James Beard Signed Menu/Recipes-Boscov's Cooking School 1972, Jacques Pepin For Sale

Collection of menus, recipes, and chef biographies from the 1972 Boscov's Famous Gourmet Cooking School. Includes a menu/recipe selection signed by Chef James Beard in red felt tip pen. In the 1970's Boscov's Department Store in Berks County, Pennsylvania offered an annual multi-week gourmet cooking school with well-known chefs and food writers as instructors. This collection includes menus/recipes from 4 of the 5 weeks of the 1972 school. Series No. 1-Jacques Pepin (Exec. Chef La Potagerie, Inc.) and Helen McCully (House Beautiful Food Editor), Series No. 2- Alvin Kerr (Contributing Editor to Gourmet Magazine), Series No. 3-Libby Hillman (Great Neck School District Cooking Instructor), Series No. 5 - James Beard (renowned chef and cookbook author). Series No. 4-Joan Specter is missing from the collection. Each series includes a one-page biography of the instructor(s) and stapled pages of recipes from that instructor's class. All pages are 8.5 x 11 inches and some are on yellow paper. Also includes a cover sheet advertisement for the Cooking School with photos and bios of the instructors.
Papers have age toning and light edge creasing. A few pencil notations on some recipes.