http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/food/2009/05/the-white-house-cookbook/ A Heaping Helping of Food News, Science and Culture Sat, 18 May 2013 18:34:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/food/2009/05/the-white-house-cookbook/comment-page-1/#comment-15380 Wendy Shaw Sun, 22 Jul 2012 01:56:18 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/food/?p=1873#comment-15380 Thank goodness for the internet. In my grandmother's hope chest lies a well loved and used White House Cookbook - the cover is missing, so this book has been a mystery. I had put it away now for about 30 of my years - opening today I see a picture of Francis Folsom Cleveland with the same description of etiquette as described above. It has been so much fun going through it looking for how to make cherry jam - something that I am making this week. I now know that it from great grandmother Rhoda Dye around 1890 - 1910. Thank goodness for the internet. In my grandmother’s hope chest lies a well loved and used White House Cookbook – the cover is missing, so this book has been a mystery. I had put it away now for about 30 of my years – opening today I see a picture of Francis Folsom Cleveland with the same description of etiquette as described above. It has been so much fun going through it looking for how to make cherry jam – something that I am making this week. I now know that it from great grandmother Rhoda Dye around 1890 – 1910.

]]> http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/food/2009/05/the-white-house-cookbook/comment-page-1/#comment-703 Gabriel Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:10:01 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/food/?p=1873#comment-703 I have this same 1964 The White House Cookbook autographed by the former First Lady, Lady Bird Johnson. I was fortunate enought to have found it in a box of books I bid on at an auction. In it, were letters of correspondence between the purchaser/requester of the First Lady's autograph and Mrs. Johnson's Social Secretary, Bess Abell, complete with signatures. I have this same 1964 The White House Cookbook autographed by the former First Lady, Lady Bird Johnson. I was fortunate enought to have found it in a box of books I bid on at an auction. In it, were letters of correspondence between the purchaser/requester of the First Lady’s autograph and Mrs. Johnson’s Social Secretary, Bess Abell, complete with signatures.

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