I've just added a cookbook to the auction. I've threatened to send it for a while now, and I finally got to it. I helped Tom Bernardin with the revisions and digitization of this book last year, and in the process, fell in love with it all over again. Tom and I worked at Ellis Island as national park service rangers in the late 1970s, and when you work at a place with such a rich history, it gets into your blood. Tom decided to explore the story of immigration through family recipes still popular, several generations after immigration.
I don't like auctions that go for a long time, so this will run for 7 days. A week plenty of time, as long as people know that the auction is going on. Consider yourselves notified, and the winner can have it in time for the holidays.
If you have any questions about this book, ask away. I've sent an extra image to Pene Azul that I hope he can put up. It's a scan of a spread of pages with representative stories and recipes. I would have listed the countries included except there are an awful lot of them.
This book has 268 pages, a thorough introduction to the immigrant experience at Ellis Island in the height of it's use as an immigrant processing station, and lots and lots of great recipes. Some are artifacts--the ingredients are unobtainable or so obscure as to be unavailable. But many more of them are as great today as they were 100 years ago when families carried them through the inspection process at Ellis.