Food History

The Whitehouse Cookbook

by F. L. Gillette

Fanny Lemira Gillette wrote this in 1887 with Hugo Ziemann, who had been steward of the White House, and the title promised the President’s table. It is a large American household book, with menus, table manners, the toilet and the sickroom as well as recipes. It stayed in print, revised, for decades.

The librarian

Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain text

Reading time

About 14 hr 50 min

Where to find it

On the Food History shelves

Edition

Project Gutenberg, eBook #13923. In the public domain in the United States.