Culinary Historians of Canada Book Sale!

Ralph Thornton Community Centre, Riverdale Auditorium (accessible)
765 Queen Street East, two blocks east of Broadview Avenue in Toronto.
Limited street parking. Green P parking lot 045 at 111 Broadview Avenue.

Cookbook collectors! We have some rare 19th-century cookbooks. We have lots of rare and familiar, old and new, important and not, repro and original, big and small, 20th-century cookbooks from Canada, the U.S. and the U.K., plus a few from Asia, India, Australia and Europe. We have cookbooks for children. A nice selection of cookbooks by Madame Benoît too. Fill in some of your collection’s gaps from more than 2,000 cookbooks available.

Food historians! We have encyclopedias, national surveys, bibliographies, dictionaries, biographies and histories of familiar and obscure topics. We have books on the history of chocolate, beverages, Christmas and more. Expand your knowledge by choosing from more than 500 books exploring topics in food history.

Many of the books are donated from the personal libraries of well-known Canadian food historians Mary F. Williamson, Carolyn Crawford and Fiona Lucas, who are all downsizing, and the late Dorothy Duncan, who bequeathed her entire and enormous culinary book collection to CHC. We have many duplicate Canadian cookbooks donated by McGill University’s library too.

Historical baked treats are available for purchase too. This is a 30th-anniversary fundraiser for the Culinary Historians of Canada. Admission: Free. Open to everyone! For more information, visit our Facebook page!