{"id":76,"date":"2020-04-19T14:10:42","date_gmt":"2020-04-19T21:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/?p=76"},"modified":"2020-04-19T14:11:15","modified_gmt":"2020-04-19T21:11:15","slug":"book-chronicle-books-the-first-50-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/2020\/04\/19\/book-chronicle-books-the-first-50-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Book: Chronicle Books: The First 50 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" class=\"wp-image-77\" style=\"width: 500px;\" src=\"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_7608-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Cover of Chronicle Books: The First 50 Years\" srcset=\"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_7608-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_7608-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_7608-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_7608-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_7608-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_7608-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_7608-2048x2048.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_7608-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Chronicle Books: The First 50 Years<br><\/em><\/strong>by Julianne Balmain<br>published by Chronicle Books, San Francisco<br>2017<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is an inside history of the establishment of San Francisco publishing house, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chroniclebooks.com\/\">Chronicle Books<\/a>, and how the company grew and thrived by embracing California style, cooking, and generous illustrations in their publications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is organized chronologically, and tells the story of how it grew from a tiny operation to a global brand, with a special emphasis on developing non-traditional (non-bookstore) retail.  Yes, it <em>was<\/em> innovative to suggest selling cookbooks in the same shops where you buy cookware, and the colorful covers of their books fit in <em>nicely<\/em> in those settings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Typical for this publisher, the book itself is well designed.  It features perforated covers revealing images from the company&#8217;s back catalog, colored paper edges on all sides, and lavish photographic illustrations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I purchased this from <a href=\"https:\/\/squareup.com\/store\/sfcb\">the San Francisco Center for the Book&#8217;s Online Shop<\/a>.  (If it is in stock, you can, too!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chronicle Books: The First 50 Yearsby Julianne Balmainpublished by Chronicle Books, San Francisco2017 This is an inside history of the establishment of San Francisco publishing house, Chronicle Books, and how the company grew and thrived by embracing California style, cooking, and generous illustrations in their publications. It is organized chronologically, and tells the story of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/2020\/04\/19\/book-chronicle-books-the-first-50-years\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Book: Chronicle Books: The First 50 Years&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[16],"class_list":["post-76","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-publishing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions\/80"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}