Culture and Cooking; Or, Art in the Kitchen.

New York: Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., 1881 First edition. Uncommon. Rust-colored cloth boards, with title and a tree design stamped in black. . Octavo. Some discolored spots to boards, as well as minor shelfwear to spine. First leaf (blank) is torn out. Paste-down endpaper stamped in blue with a previous owner's name, A.J. Schulten. A very good copy. Nitsch (ca. 1850s-1889) was an English-born cookbook author, novelist, and one of the earliest contributors of Good Housekeeping. Her book Ten Dollars Enough, a cookbook and advice manual written as a novel, was published serially in Good Housekeeping during the first two years of the magazine's run. When Ten Dollars Enough was published separately in 1886, it was met with immediate popularity and went through eleven editions by 1893 (Gamber, p 120). Nitsch was also an advocate for women's employment and often used her publications, like the present work, to encourage women to establish their own businesses and become financially independent (Cohen, p. 120). (Inventory #: 17844)