Mother Lode of Cookbooks #5 ~ Woman's World & Clementine in the Kitchen

Woman's World Cook Book, published in 1961. A very detailed cookbook from the Culinary Arts Institute filled with many photos of cooking techniques, plus hundreds of recipes running the usual spectrum from appetizers to vegetables. The meat chapter features a few memorable ingredients including liver, brains, sweetbreads, heart, kidneys, tongue and tripe.

Clementine in the Kitchen, published in 1943. Not a cookbook per se, although the last 57 pages contain 150+ family favorite recipes, the book is a memoir by Gourmet magazine writer Phineas Beck (the pen name of Samuel Chamberlain).

The book contains many anecdotes of the trials and tribulations of the Burgundy cook hired by the Becks in pre-war France. "Clementine" was the sixth cook hired by the Becks, she left France with her employers and settled in the United States in 1939. Many of the stories focus on her adjustment to living in Massachusetts as she only spoke French and knew little of American culture.