Favorite Dishes : A Columbian Autograph Souvenir Cookery Book, Paperback

by Carrie V. Shuman

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Favorite Dishes : A Columbian Autograph Souvenir Cookery Book, Paperback by Shuman, Carrie V., ISBN 0252069374, ISBN-13 9780252069376, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Favorite Dishes is a celebrity cookbook of autographed recipes, accented by portraits of the distinguished contributors, that was compiled on the occasion of the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. It is a handsome sourc on nineteenth-century cookery as well as a testament to the desire of well-educated, well-placed women to use their position for social good. It is also a prime example of the genre of charitable cookbooks that began after the Civil War and extends to today's Junior League community cookbooks. The world's fair in Chicago was the first event of its kind that offered women a conspicuous and responsible role. A Woman's Building was designed by a woman architect, decorated with the statues and paintings of prominent women artists, and overseen by a Board of Lady Managers, comprised of 115 wives and daughters of prominent political and business leaders from every state and territory. Carrie Shuman approached the president of this unprecedented body, Bertha Honoré Palmer, with the idea of producing a charitable cookbook, endorsed and autographed by the Lady Managers, of their prize recipes. Ths would be offered to women of limited means--women who dreamed "longingly and hopelessly of the Exposition"--who could sell them to raise money to cover the expense of a visit to the fair. This

• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Year: 2000
• ISBN: 9780252069376
• Condition: Fine

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