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...circulation fell below 40,000. Title to St. Nicholas was lately acquired by Roy Walker, an Ohioan who sold advertising for ten years for Curtis Publishing Co., went into the publishing business for himself. He bought John Martin's Book, later scrapped it. Also he issued a cookbook for distribution in Woolworth stores which has sold phenomenally. Mrs. David Stern offered her financial support to the revived St. Nicholas, but Publisher Walker accepted only her advisory assistance, in an effort to "bring the magazine up to its former standard, so that the new generation of American children may grow...
...cook in the grand manner, fed Kaiser Wilhelm salmon steamed in champagne, plied King George V with variations of cream cheese (a favorite dish), invented peach Melba. Other Escoffier creations: Sauce Diable, quail Richelieu, filet of sole Waleska. He knew more than 5,000 recipes, wrote a monumental cookbook which he modestly prefaced: "It would be absurd to aspire to fix the destinies...
...Hindenburg of the Kitchen," pioneer German feminist and kindergarten sponsor; in Berlin. When her husband died in 1889 she flabbergasted her friends by assuming the management of his Charlottenburg dye works, ran it efficiently until her sons came of age, wrote Germany's most popular cookbook, The ABC of the Kitchen...
...quiet but telling accents that should bring tears of joy to many a Yankee eye he tells a burlesque tale that is at the same time an uproariously effective caricature of French politics, French traits. Henry Jones, solemn U. S. citizen temporarily resident in Paris while writing a cookbook designed to glorify French cuisine, is accused by a Frenchwoman of having walked off from a restaurant with her husband's coat. In the course of their parley a crowd collects. The spirit of Verdun and the iniquity of the War debts are mentioned, and by the time they have...
Acquitted of fraud in Budapest last week, Bookseller Bischl triumphantly regaled reporters with the story of how he had sold 2,000 copies of a cookbook to women through the mails by advertising: This Book Is Guaranteed to Tell What A Girl Ought To Know Before Marriage...