Die kleine New Yorker Köchin; or, The Little New York Cook: Containing Upwards of One Thousand Receipts for Preparing the Daily Meals of Private Families in the Most Practical, Wholesome and Frugal Manner.
New York: E. Steiger, 1859. First Edition. 32mo, xxviii, 176 pages, publisher's original black cloth over green paper covered boards. Anna May’s Die kleine New Yorker Köchin, also issued with the English title page The Little New York Cook, is a scarce German-American cookbook published in New York by E. Steiger in 1859. Although supplied with both German and English title pages, the text is entirely in German, reflecting its intended audience among German-speaking households in mid-nineteenth-century New York and the wider German-American community. The English title describes the work as containing over one thousand receipts for preparing daily family meals in a practical, wholesome, and economical manner, while the German title emphasizes good, tasteful, varied, and affordable household cookery. This copy also bears the bookseller’s ticket of Gebr. Geiger’s Buchhandlung, 70 Springfield Ave., Newark, N.J., further linking the volume to the German-American book trade and immigrant readership of the New York/New Jersey region. A desirable immigrant-era culinary imprint, the book has strong appeal for collectors of American cookbooks, German-American printing, New York and New Jersey publishing history, women’s domestic authorship, and nineteenth-century food history. Provenance: From the library of Dr. William Woys Weaver, acclaimed American food historian and author, acquired directly from his historic home, Roughwood, in Chester County, Pennsylvania. Some soiling to top board, rubbing and wear, hinges starting to crack, else in very good condition. Item #300
Price: $1,750.00