Hugo Ziemann

I love pop culture of older times; and this book is riff with such things. From archaic medicines to what are now considered "old wives' tales" as utter facts. It's fun just to flip through and go, "Oh...wow..."

Oh no! With low-fat, no-fat, quick and great-tasting modern versions. At least these modern recipes face the originals. This is lucky, since many of the revised recipes bear almost no resemblance to the originals. Methinks they must have eliminated much of the original recipes to make room for these recipes though. The old book was NOT a thin volume! They have also spliced in modern recipes from Barbara Bush and Hillary Rodham Clinton. These are not improvements IMO, unless they interest show more more people in the older editions. [The White House Cook Book was originally published in 1894. I suppose, though, if more folks buy atrocities like this, it will be easier for others of us to obtain the older versions. show less

Interesting to read, I've not tried any recipes yet. Many of them are not practical to our times.

As much a history book as it is a cookbook. Great reading! I wish I had the original 1887 edition; mine is a re-print from 1999