Name/Title
White House Cook Book: A Comprehensive Cyclopedia of Information for the HomeEntry/Object ID
2018.1.2Description
Hard bound 1893 reprint of the cookbook originally published in 1903 by the Saalfield Publishing Co. of New York. It features "Cooking, toilet and household recipes, menus, dinner-giving, table etiquette, care of the sick, health suggestions, and facts worth knowing." One of the authors, Hugo Zieman, was steward of the White House at the original printing of the book. According to the publishers' preface, "Hugo Ziemann was at one time caterer for that Prince Napoleon who was killed while fighting the Zulus in Africa. He was afterwards steward of the famous Hotel Splendide in Paris. Later he conducted the celebrated Brunswick Café in New York, and still later he gave to the Hotel Richelieu, in Chicago, a cuisine which won the applause of even the gourmets of foreign lands. It was here that he laid the famous "spread" to which the chiefs of the warring factions of the Republican Convention sat down in June, 1888, and from which they arose with asperities softened, differences harmonized and victory organized." Mrs. F. (Fannie) L. (Lemira) Gillette also wrote "The Capitol Cook Book Adapted from the White House Cook Book Containing Nearly 1,500 Choice, Tested Household Recipes," "The American Cook Book: A Selection of Choice Recipes, Original and Selected During a Period of Forty Years' Practical Housekeeping," "Mrs. Gillette's Cook Book: Fifty Years of Practical Housekeeping," and " The Presidential Cook Book."
Hardbound. Reprint. This book features a yellow dust jacket. the front features a sketch of the White House with people walking in front of it. the back cover features hints from insde the book.Collection
BenderAcquisition
Accession
2018.1.0Source or Donor
David R. Bender, Ph.DAcquisition Method
Gift