Celebrated Actor-Folks' Cookeries

Mary Pickford, Enrico Caruso, Lillian Russell and a hundred more stars of 1916 — each sharing the dish they actually cooked. The original celebrity cookbook.

About the Book

1916Published
Mabel Rowland (ed.)Author
193Players

Celebrated Actor-Folks' Cookeries (1916) may be the first true celebrity cookbook: Mabel Rowland wrote to the famous players of the day and asked each for their favorite recipe, 'many an original one, never published before.'

The stars answered — Enrico Caruso, Lillian Russell, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, Gentleman Jim Corbett and dozens more — often with their portraits and autographs, which appear throughout this site.

It is a time capsule of Broadway and early Hollywood appetites, star by star.

This site reproduces the complete text of the original 1916 edition, digitized page by page from the original printing. The book is in the public domain.

Rights & ReuseThe complete text of Celebrated Actor-Folks’ Cookeries (1908) is in the public domain in the United States — like all works published before 1928 — and is free to read, download, quote, teach from, and reuse. This digital edition (its transcription, restored images, and site design) is © 2026 PhotoOpAI, and any editorial commentary we add is clearly marked as ours; the underlying public-domain text carries no such restriction.