The Blacksmith's Cookbook: Recipes in Iron - by Francis Whitaker - reprint

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The Blacksmith's Cookbook: Recipes in Iron , by Francis Whitaker, originally published by Jim Fleming Publications, Vail, Colorado, 1986. Republished by Blue Moon Press, Huntingdon, Penn., 2010. 6 x 9½ (landscape) paperback, spiral bound, 153 pages, with 144 Illustrations, mostly drawings. ISBN013067Please note this book is new, not used.Francis Whitaker was a legend in the metalworking industry. He studied under Samuel Yellin, another blacksmithing legend, and achieved the rank of Master Blacksmith. In 1997, Whitaker was awarded a National Heritage Fellowship in the Traditional Arts by the National Endowment for the Arts. Whitaker is generally credited with inspiring the revival of interest in the craft and art of blacksmithing that began soon after he founded his blacksmithing school in Colorado in the 1960s.At the beginning of the book, Whitaker wrote: This book is dedicated to Samuel Yellin. It was at his forge in Philadelphia that my career began, in 1922 at age 15. A year at Yellin's, two more at Julius Schramm's in Berlin, Germany, three years of intensive training under two great masters, gave me the background knowledge to go on and improve my techniques, and develop my own style of iron work.And in the preface: This book is the result of ten years of workshops, demonstrations and master classes.... The idea of the title read more

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