The Settlement Cook Book

Résumé du livre

In 1901 the trustees of the Milwaukee Settlement, a community organization serving Jewish immigrants, declined to underwrite publication of the recipes used in their cooking course, fearing it would be a waste of money. The lady volunteers persevered, selling advertisements to pay the printer, and The Settlement Cook Book went on to become the most successful charity cookbook in American history: 40 editions and two million copies sold between 1901 and 1991. The profits became one of the main sources of funding for the parent organization. Lizzie Black Kander (Mrs. Simon Kander) dedicated her life to community service and vocational education for girls and women. In addition to her work for the Settlement, she served on the Milwaukee Public Schools board and helped to establish Girls Technical High School. She compiled the first edition of The Settlement Cook Book, and supervised publication of the next 22 editions before her death in 1940. This reprint edition was prepared from digital scans of the original volume in the collection of the Michigan State University Libraries, and was printed and bound with the library's Espresso Book Machine.