How We Cook in Los Angeles: A Practical Cook Book Containing Six Hundred or More Recipes Selected and Tested by Over Two Hundred Well Known Hostesses Including a French, German and Spanish Department With Menus, Suggestions for Artistic Table Decorations, and Souvenirs. Ladies Social Circle, Simpson M. E. Church. (Available on Internet Archive )
Now this church cookbook is great for many reasons. One is the bounty of names in it from the book's publication committee to the 3 page list of contributors (names of those not living in Los Angeles, include their name and city/state), to the names of the women in the foreign "departments," and the officers and members of the Social Circle. Ads are also included in this cookbook.
Women from the following cities, aside from Los Angeles, contributed to this cookbook, Riverside, California, Orange, California; San Diego, California; Tustin, California; Pomona, California; Alhambra, California; Long Beach, California; Petaluma, California; Santa Barbara, California; New Brunswick; Boston; Bowling Green, Kentucky; and Philadelphia.
An essay entitled "Old Time Hospitality" by Jessie Benton Fremont is a nice family history/anecdotal stories of the author's life.
Today's Food Friday is a July breakfast menu from this book (page 47). Let me just say my kids will be happy that's not how we eat in Southern California now.
