Rising before going to sleep herself,” wrote Silverman.
“He appreciated the ‘fruit-served breakfast’ she readied for his early In his biography of Houdini, Houdini: The career of Ehrich Weiss, author Kenneth Silverman writes that Houdini’s wife, Bess, liked to cook and was rather accomplished at it. It seemed a rather simple offering considering what researchers have found to be a man of more lavish tastes. True to my own heart, Houdini was a deviled eggs man that he paired with a scalloped mushroom dish. It provided a glimpse into Houdini’s dietary preferences along with other such notables of the time such as Warren Harding, Charlie Chaplin, John Philip Sousa and Douglas Fairbanks.Īll of these seemed to lean to more domestic fare as Fairbanks offered up a bread tart recipe, Chaplin a steak and kidney pie, Sousa his own fa- vorite style of spaghetti, while Harding shared a waffles mixture. While researching Houdini I came across this book that asked approxi- mately 100 of the country’s most famous men of the era to submit a fa- vorite recipe. As a teenager, Weisz eventually set out for New York City with his father. Now, Harry Houdini wasn’t born in Appleton, but the world-famous illusionist liked to think he was, and Appleton has been more than willing to em- brace that notion.īorn Erich Weisz in Budapest, Hungary, Houdini’s family settled in Wis- consin. Why I purchased a copy stems from some research I did on one of Northeastern Wisconsin’s most famous and beloved native sons. The re- printed version of the book can found at many outlets at a very reason- able price.
What’s interesting about this particular book is how it’s compiled and, in the process, has made the original issues relatively expensive. After all, many of us still rely on the recipes that our grandmothers and even great-grandmother s have passed down to us. Originally printed in 1922, the cookbook is not unusual because of its age. The Stag Cook Book: A Man’s Cook Book For Men just might be thatbook. It’s not often you come across a cookbook that is both historically significant, contains humor and borders slightly on the unusual.
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