Sunset Magazine and Cookbooks

[ElsieD]

1 hour ago, weinoo said:

For my many years as a Californian, I had a standing subscription to Sunset Magazine - I appreciated it not only for recipes, but additionally for its gardening advice.

 

I also have a number of the cookbooks:

 

 

 

The Ultimate Grill Book and The Southwest Grill book are first editions, published in the 1980's. The other are into their 3rd, 4th or 5th printings, first published way before I moved out west.

 

The Best of Book saw a lot of usage; I may have learned how to use the Weber for smoking birds, meats, etc. from that book.

 

Do you have the Appetizer one?

[ElsieD]

34 minutes ago, Kerry Beal said:

Isn't it in the one you just got?

No, and the cover of the one I had is not the same as the cover they show on my thrift store find.

[weinoo]

12 hours ago, ElsieD said:

Do you have the Appetizer one?

 

No, that's my full Sunset collection.  Is this the one you're thinking of?

 

Edited Thursday at 12:36 PM by weinoo (log)

[ElsieD]

19 minutes ago, weinoo said:

 

No, that's my full Sunset collection.  Is this the one you're thinking of?

 

That is exactly the one I'm thinking of.  Where did you find it?  I looked on their website and tried googling for it and couldn't find it.

[weinoo]

On 6/19/2025 at 8:57 AM, ElsieD said:

That is exactly the one I'm thinking of.  Where did you find it?  I looked on their website and tried googling for it and couldn't find it.

check out Thrift Books.

Edited 18 hours ago by weinoo
To actually spell "books" correctly. (log)

[ElsieD]

9 minutes ago, weinoo said:

check out Thrift Boks.

Thank you SO much.  I have ordered a copy from there.  

[Katie Meadow]

Growing up in NY on the upper west side,  a copy of Sunset would occasionally surface. It seemed like another planet. 

[Margaret Pilgrim]

On 6/18/2025 at 10:15 AM, rotuts said:

.... this area , changed exponentially , many many ways 

 

over the next 70 years.

 

my favorite ' dried apricot ' ,  ( not the ones massively over ripe, so they they oozed through your toes )

 

is more or less extinct   .

 

that area changed things , better and worse .

 

 

 

 

I vividly remember my father's driving us to "the city", up 101/El Camino, and having him point to the surrounding apricot orchards and despairing, "In your lifetime, a dried apricot will cost 25 cents!"    We all laughed.  

[rotuts]

@Margaret Pilgrim

 

fine story .   

 

havent seen one for 20 years.

[AAQuesada]

12 hours ago, rotuts said:

havent seen one for 20 years.

You haven't seen dried Apricots for 20 years?!  or am I misunderstanding. The Trader Joe's California slab Apricots are pretty great

[rotuts]

@AAQuesada

 

Tj's slab apricots haven't made it East in for a long long time.

 

there are some ' turkish style , but those are not the same .

 

 

 

[weinoo]

4 hours ago, rotuts said:

@AAQuesada

 

Tj's slab apricots haven't made it East in for a long long time.

 

there are some ' turkish style , but those are not the same .

 

 

 

 

There are  others that have!