Great gift for the home cook! This is a set of blank cards made from a damaged and discarded book (in this case, 1963's cookbook, "A Cook's Tour of San Francisco."

Each card features an actual illustration inspired by the city's ethnic cuisines (a la 1960!) from the book (not a copy). Leave them as is or color them, if you like (dry media, like colored pencils probably best).

The illustrations are mounted on medium-weight kraftpaper cardstock and are framed by a hand drawn line of white ink. The scenes are of the San Francisco dining scene of the 1950s and 60s -- or at least an early 1960 idea of them.

The handmade envelopes are made from single pages of a Betty Crocker cookbook of the same era and feature what I like to call "food porn" -- those over-saturated, wet-looking photos of the most awful 1950s food.

The cards measure 5.5 x 4.25 inches and include removable white adhesive labels for the mailing addresses and clear adhesive seals for closing, all sent tied together with baker's twine.