classic cookbooks: 1000 piece puzzle

Piece together your own colorful collection of vintage cookbook covers with this iconic 1000-piece puzzle from artist Richard Baker. It’s a visual feast, and the perfect gift for foodies and book lovers alike.

Classic Cookbooks 1000 Piece Puzzle features 42 amazing paintings of beloved classic cookbooks, ranging from the iconic, like The Joy of Cooking, The French Chef Cookbook, and The Edna Lewis Cookbook, to quirkier classics like Fabulous Fondues and Love and Knishes. Each cookbook cover featured in this puzzle is intentionally painted to capture the telltale signs of wear from years of use in the kitchen.

This 1000-piece puzzle features high-quality pieces that assemble to 25 x 20 inches, accompanied by a folded, oversize insert of the puzzle image for easy reference and an artist statement.

Whether you’re a home cook, chef, bibliophile, or puzzle fanatic, you will love piecing your way through decades of cookbook classics and chatting with family or friends about your favorite recipes as you assemble. From Tatsuji Tada’s Japanese Recipes, to Meera Sodha’s East to Irfan Orga’s Turkish Cooking and Elsie Masterton’s Blueberry Hill Cookbook, you are sure to find a few of your favorite kitchen resources depicted in this charming and engaging puzzle.

Richard Baker is a Brooklyn-based still-life painter who started painting dog-eared copies of vintage paperbacks several years ago. He scours used bookstores in search of appropriately careworn paperbacks to immortalize in his portraits: No precious first editions, no rare things--just your common companions. He depicts paperback editions from the 1960s and ’70s, faithfully portraying not only the front cover’s original details, but also signs of its passage through time--creases, worn bindings, and all.