The Brown Derby Cookbook.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1949 First edition, uncommon in dust jacket. Bright yellow cloth boards with green lettering on spine, and brown derby hat stamped on front and spine. Review copy with yellow publisher's slip laid in. In publisher's green aand yellow illustrated dust jacket. Octavo. Occasional (often instructional) illustrations throughout. Introduction by Marjorie Child Husted (1892-1986). Last 18 pp. are the index. Both book and jacket in very good condition. Jacket with a few small tears and creases and with slightly darkened spine. The dust jacket features palm trees, people, dogs, and the Brown Derby restaurant. Back cover of dust jacket (truncated) features a collage of reproduced photographs of the different Brown Derby restaurant locations. Robert Cobb (1899-1970) was an American chef known for his role in founding the famous Brown Derby Restaurants and the creation of the Cobb Salad. With his associates Wilson Mizner and Herbert K. Somborn, Cobb opened the original Brown Derby restaurant on Wilshire Boulevard in 1926, right across from the Ambassador Hotel. It was built in the shape of a derby hat: a symbol representative of the Golden Age of Hollywood. This original restaurant was eventually sold after Cobb opened others in Hollywood, Beverly Hills, and Los Feliz. Legend has it that Cobb came up with the Cobb Salad when serving showman Sid Grauman late one night in 1937. (Inventory #: 17855)