1914 Rand McNally CHINESE JAPANESE Cook Book 1st Edtn Antique Recipe Book 122pg - $99 - (Little Rock, AR)

This First Edition is noted as arguably the first Japanese cookbook published in the United States, with 122 pages includes publisher's ads with brown leather cover gold lettering, book excellent condition comes exactly as it shows in pics this is a fine antique book full of amazing old recipes that you just don't see anymore with FREE PRIORITY SHIPPING! 1914 1st Chinese and Japanese Cookbook in America, m.liveauctioneers.com/item/38753825?classic=true Sold For $225 ESTIMATE: $300 - $500 Info found online...Sara Bosse & Onoto Watanna [pseud. of Winnifred Eaton] Chinese Japanese Cook Book, Chicago Rand McNally & Company [1914] The first collaboration of sisters Sara Bosse and Winnifred Eaton, natives of Canada but of British and Chinese descent; "Onoto Watanna" was already an established author of faux-Japanese romances and short stories and was thus unwilling to put her name on the original articles in a bid to distance herself from her genuine Chinese ancestry. Thus did these recipes first appear under Sara Bosse's name alone in Harper's Bazaar and the Ladies' Home Journal from January to October, 1913. Only when the work appeared in book form did Watanna's name appear with the insinuation being that she provided the Japanese recipes in the collection. As can be imagined, the sisters' work consists mostly of ersatz authenticity. As Watanna's biographer Diana Birchall wrote: "In truth, Winnifred's own Chinese cookery, as remembered in her Calgary home, was a byword for disaster. She boiled everything until it was inedible."

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