The Settlement Cook Book

Janice Longone

Culinary historian

Lizzie Kander founded the first settlement house in Milwaukee. When the Board (male) refused to pay the printing costs ($18.00) for recipe booklets for her cooking classes and suggested that if she wanted to raise the money, she should do it herself. Which she did – most successfully. She served as editor for almost forty years, always revising, expanding and testing recipes. More than two million copies sold in more than forty editions, with money from sales being distributed to all Milwaukee charities for over 100 years. The Wisconsin Historical Society selected this book as one of the most influential volumes in their library of 3.6 million titles. This is a charity fundraising book, a way Ame

Judy Joo

Chef, Author and TV personality