Kitchenette Cookery

Cooking well in a wee kitchen, 1917 — the first manual for the apartment dweller with three shelves, a two-burner stove and company coming.

About the Book

1917Published
Anna Merritt EastAuthor
11Chapters
23Pages on this site

Anna Merritt East had been the New Housekeeping editor of The Ladies' Home Journal when Little, Brown published Kitchenette Cookery in 1917 — a manual for the newest kind of American kitchen: the kitchenette.

Its chapters fit cooking to the space — shelves, pots and containers, marketing by telephone, breakfasts, dinners and company meals all scaled to two burners and a landlady's lease.

This edition is built from a dual-engine reading of the original pages, checked against the scans.

This site reproduces the complete text of the original 1917 edition, digitized page by page from the original printing. The book is in the public domain.

Rights & ReuseThe complete text of Kitchenette Cookery (1917) 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.