Louis' Every Woman's Cook Book

Boston; New York: H.M. Caldwell Company; [Colonial Press, 1910. Tall octavo (26.5 x 13.5 cm.), 120 leaves numbered on versos only, 240 pages. Recipes on versos, with mostly blank pages facing for menus and record keeping. Printed throughout in black and green, all pages ruled in green. Index. Pages at rear “For your own receipts”. Evident FIRST EDITION. “Author of Louis’ Mixed Drinks, [and this work] Muckensturm rose up to become one of America’s top restaurateurs in the early twentieth century. Part of that success might lie in the fact that his restaurant Louis’ Café at 15 Fayette Street in Boston was a family business. His brother Paul was the chef and other family members and even in-laws were employed there. With over five hundred seats in the main and private dining rooms, Louis’ played host to countless Boston banquets and fundraisers (from Spirituous Journey: A History of Drink, Book Two by Jared Brown & Anistatia Miller (2010)). The series of Louis' books was always very elegant in presentation. Internally clean and sound. In publisher's decorated green cloth, printed in burgundy, red, and gold. Fine. [Bitting, page 334, Cagle 538]. (Inventory #: 9935)