OP: The Bordello Cookbook
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Moyer Bell, 1997. Hardcover. Fine. First printing.
If anyone knew how to market a product, it was advertising hall of famer and executive Jo Foxwoth (1918–2006). Of course, sex sells on its own, but telegraphing luxury and sophistication along with it is another matter entirely.
Combining historical interpretation with thorough research into the America’s turn of the 20th century high-end “entertainment houses”—like the Everleigh Club in Chicago, Mahogany Hall in New Orleans, and The Chicken Ranch in La Grange, Texas—Foxworth’s The Bordello Cookbook (1997) provides entertaining and educational insight into the business of feeding all desires.
The Everleigh Club, for example, boasted 15–25 cooks, hosted lavish dinner parties, and offered a late dinner for guests and their girls, which cost as much as the “romp d’amour” upstairs. Their reputation for good eating was so esteemed that men were known to go there—allegedly—for the food alone.
Recipes for fashionable late-19th and early-20th century dishes accompany the narrative for an engaging perspective on the world’s oldest trade.
Our copy is a Fine first printing.
