Catering for Special Occasions with Menus and Recipes

Dark green cloth boards, with debossed white text on the front cover with three-quarters pastedown illustration. Spine has gold gilt text with minor blemishes to the top or bottom of the back strip where it meets the front and rear gutters. Front board has light rubbing along the gutter where it meets the back strip and minor cosmetic blemishes. The rear board has minor cosmetic blemishes but also a wrinkling of the cloth above the center point. Corners are all sharp with wear at each of the tips. Spine is straight with no cracking at the decorative endpapers and with firm hinges. Text block is solid with all pages attached. Age tanning and some foxing throughout. All interior pages are clean with no tears, cracks, or previous owner marks. Illustrated with Half Tone Engravings of Set Tables and black & white cherub on all text pages.

Fannie Merritt Farmer (1857 – 1915) was to become a culinary expert on diet and nutrition for the ill but began her cooking studies at age 30 when she enrolled in the Boston Cooking School. Graduating in 1889 she published her first book "Boston Cooking-School Cook Book" in 1896 which became a widely used culinary text. Farmer went on to write additional books, invent recipes, and lectured to nurses and dietitians, for the remainder of her life, as well as teaching a dietary preparation class at Harvard Medical School, but it was not until one hundred and three years later that The New York Times finally published a belated obituary for her.

Joseph Christian Leyendecker (1874 – 1951) was one of the most prominent and financially successful freelance commercial artist in the U.S. Between 1895 to 1951 he produced drawings and paintings for hundreds of posters, books, advertisements, and magazine covers and stories for some of the most well-known magazines and companies. During the First and Second World War Leyendecker painted military recruitment posters and war bond posters for the U.S. government. He was one of the few known gay artists working in the early-twentieth century.

Albert Dodd Blashfield (1860 1920) was known for his pen and ink drawing and magazine illustration.