(FOOD AND DRINK) RICHARDS LENA Lena Richards Cook Book

Sale 2308 - Lot 336

Price Realized: $ 2,040

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Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750

(FOOD AND DRINK.) RICHARDS, LENA. Lena Richard's Cook Book. Portrait frontispiece. 139 pages; some stains here and there in text (well used in the kitchen). 8vo, original cloth, worn; front hinge started but firm. (New Orleans: Rogers Printing Co., 1939

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first edition, inscribed by the author on her portrait. Richard's operated several New Orleans restaurants beginning in the 1920s. She also ran a catering business and, in the 1930s, a cooking school. She was also a television cooking show pioneer; WDSU featured her program from 1947-49. Through the intercession of James Beard, Houghton Mifflin published Richards' New Orleans Cook Book in 1939. Scarce, no copies at auction in the last 20 years.