For years I've wanted to find my mother's cookbook, the only one she ever used. I never knew the name and the cover was long gone by the time I started noticing it. But I remembered it had thumb tabs, like a dictionary. I finally found it! It's called
The American Woman's Cook Book edited by Ruth Berolzheimer. My mother's copy was probably from 1939, though I'm not sure.
I'm looking at a 1943 edition I got through interlibrary loan and it's really amazing. It so thorough and well-written, I'm surprised it's not still being referred to. It has most things a new (if ambitious) cook (young bride?) would need to know (including how to skin and dress a squirrel
). And this edition has a "Wartime Cookery" addition which is fascinating.
Anyway I would love to find out more about Berolzheimer and the Culinary Arts Institute she was director of. At first I thought it was just a publisher, but maybe not. Does anyone have any information?
Thanks in advance.