"Favorite Recipes Of Famous Women" 1925 STRATTON, Florence [foreword by]

STRATTON, Florence [foreword by]

[99] pp.

Harper & Brothers Publishers

1925

First Edition

7 1/2" x 5 3/8"

The contributors to Favorite Recipes of Famous Women (1925), unfortunately, are largely identified by their husband’s names and often more reliant on his notoriety than their own: Mrs. [Cristina] Henry Ford offers a winter strawberry shortcake; Mrs. [Mina Miller] Thomas Edison—further reduced to “wife of electrical genius”—contributes a cheese soufflé; Mrs. Edna Woolman Chase (bearing her own name!), then editor of Vogue, presents a cranberry pie; and Mrs. [Grace] Calvin Coolidge offers a pineapple salad.

This work gathers together 160 recipes collected from famous women of the time including: Clara Byrant Ford, Mina Miller Edison, Margot Asquith, Elizabeth Bibesco, Charmian London, Florence Harding, Mary Pickford, Anita Stewart, and Gloria Swanson. This work was published in the same year as The Great Gatsby and includes a recipe for breakfast from Zelda Fitzgerald, found on p. 98 : "See if there is any bacon, and if there is ask the cook which pan to fry it in. Then ask if there are any eggs, and if so try and persuade the cook to poach two of them. It is better not to attempt toast, as it burns very easily."