Old cookbook, old recipes

Hakan Dahlstrom, Wikimedia Commons

If you can’t make it over to San Francisco’s Fisherman’s Wharf, try the recipes from an old cookbook about it.

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Years ago, a young couple who rented a storage unit at the Moss Landing Harbor, decided to have a “garage” sale. We keep our fishing boat over at Moss Landing, and I love books as much as I love fishing, so naturally, I wandered in to browse for books.

I found a hardcover first edition of The Fisherman’s Wharf Cookbook, authored and inscribed by Morrison Wood, copyright 1955. I think I paid two or three dollars for it, and the price now varies (according to condition and which edition) from $10 to more than $75. Leather-bound editions are even more. But, I do not value the book for monetary reasons.

I love to cook, I love to eat and I love seafood. So, that combination gives the cookbook a special place in my collection.