The Schlesinger Library has a collection of over 5,000 culinary pamphlets, which are publications issued by organizations or companies to promote a particular product or topic. This could include short cookbooks created as advertisements featuring brand-name ingredients or specific tools and equipment. It may also include titles published to inform the public about various consumer information, such as government bulletins or brochures from industry advocacy groups. Most but not all of the pamphlets include recipes.

This collection is organized into thematic boxes. You can see a list of all the boxes on the Culinary pamphlets collection record. You can request individual culinary pamphlets through the HOLLIS catalog; please note that when you come to do your research at the Library, you will receive the entire box of pamphlets even if you only order one item from that box (so if you want to see several pamphlets from the same box, you only need to request one).

If you want to browse through the culinary pamphlet collection in the HOLLIS catalog, you can use the call number browse function to search for the term "culinary pamphlets" and then page through the items in each box in numerical order.

The list below is a sampling of the kinds of materials found in the Culinary Pamphlets collection. You can also view a curated selection of over 200 individual pamphlets that have been fully digitized as a Harvard Library CURIOSity Collection called "What Women Want to Know."