Vintage Cookbooks: American Woman's Cook Book - Culinary Arts Institute and Ruth Berolzheimer

In this part of the continuing series of vintage cookbooks in the Cavalcade library, we look at the American Woman's Cook Book. First published in 1938, this iconic cookbook has roots that go back to the 1860's. A publisher in Chicago bought the recipe archives of the Delineator Magazine (New York) which evolved into the basis for the American Woman's Cook Book. The Culinary Arts Institute was a test-kitchen in Chicago where home economists tested recipes for publication, and this was headed by Ruth Berolzheimer. She served as director of the Culinary Arts Institute and editor of the American Woman's Cook Book into the mid-1950's, when she retired and was replaced by Melanie DeProft. In addition to the popular cookbook, Berolzheimer and the Culinary Arts Institute published dozens of small pamphlet-style cookbooks.
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