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Complete Recipes & Instructions for Gourmet Cooking with Vitamix 3600
Ruth M. Barnard
This is the recipe-and-instruction book that accompanied the Vita-Mix 3600, the high-powered blending machine that was a forerunner of today's Vitamix. Written by Ruth M. Barnard, its roughly 128 illustrated pages combine care-and-operation instructions for the machine with recipes for "easy, healthful and wholesome gourmet cooking" — showing how the 3600's instant blade reversal and high-speed motor could juice whole fruits and vegetables, grind grain, make frozen desserts, hot soups and much more. It's a period artifact of 1970s whole-foods home cooking as much as a manual, of interest to owners of vintage Vita-Mix machines and to anyone curious about the roots of the blender-as-kitchen-workhorse.
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The book
Complete Recipes & Instructions for Easy, Healthful and Wholesome Gourmet Cooking with the Vita-Mix 3600 was produced by the Vita-Mix Corporation of Ohio — the family company that would later become the well-known Vitamix brand — to ship with its Model 3600 machine. Attributed to Ruth M. Barnard (some printings also credit Janet Suciu), it dates to the mid-to-late 1970s and blends operating and maintenance instructions with a full recipe collection.
How to read it
It functions as both owner's manual and cookbook, keyed to the specific controls of the 3600, so its main practical value today is to people still running one of these durable old machines. Beyond that, it's a charming window onto the health-food home cooking of its era.
For more context
Vitamix has kept vintage manuals like this available, reflecting how long the machines stay in service.
Sources
- Type
- Book
- Author / Maker
- Ruth M. Barnard
- Publisher
- Vita-Mix Corporation
- Place of publication
- Ohio
- Year
- 1977
- ISBN
- None
- Shelf
- Craft & How-to
- Location
- Colorado