Favorite Recipes of a Famous Hostess. By Daisy Breaux (Mrs. C. C. Calhoun).
Washington, D. C. Polytechnic Publishing Company, 1945. Octavo (20.25 x 14.5 cm.), [ii], 183 [i.e., 204] pages. Illustrated. Table of contents and index. Photo-reproduction of typescript with irregular pagination. Signed by the author and numbered “27” of an unspecified print run. Peculiarly American, socially ambivalent, half cookbook, half memoir; with three hundred fifty recipes arranged by what today would be called a professional event-planner for high-society functions. The recipes, mercurially.....