Los Angeles Times Prize Cook Book
From Recipe Prize Winners tested and edited by chef A.L. Wyman
Los Angeles, 1923
This cookbook is the final in a series of prize-winning recipe books published by the Los Angeles Times between 1902 and 1923 - featuring recipes submitted by California women, primarily those in the Los Angeles area.
For this 1923 book, over 7,000 recipes were tested (and judged) by L.A. Times food tester and columnists A.L. Wyman. Chef Wyman was well-known to LA residents because his popular āPractical Recipesā column appeared each Saturday in the newspaper. The book advertises itself as not just a local phenomenon but also a ādelight to Eastern families who receive it as a gift from California friends.ā
When Chef Wyman died in 1926, his wife Mabelle Wyman took over his column. After her death, the Timesā food column was written by the fictional Marian Manners (similar to Prudence Penny at the Los Angeles Examiner and other Hearst publications). Marian was named in homage to Marian Chandler, the wife of Los Angeles Time publisher Harry Chandler, and different authors voiced her over the years. Eventually, the column transformed into the popular Culinary SOS section of the Times, which ran for many years and produced its own cookbooks.
You can read more about this series of cookbooks and the recipes I've cooked from them in the entry for the Los Angeles Times Cook Book No. 2.
Pictured: Chef A.L. Wyman (1920s) and Chef Mabelle Wyman (for her 1928 Thanksgiving column in the LA Times)
NEWSPAPERS
Farmers Market Cook Book
Los Angeles Times Cook Book - No. 2
Los Angeles Times Cook Book No. 2 (Red Cover)
Los Angeles Times Cook Book No. 3
Los Angeles Times Cookbook No. 3 (Red Cover)
Los Angeles Times Cook Book No. 4
Los Angeles Times Economy Cook Book Number Five
Los Angeles Times Prize Cook Book
Recipe Spectacular Contest
Salad Fashion Show
PRIZE-WINNING/CONTRIBUTORS
El Molino Best Recipes
Look Inside the door for Finest Refrigeration: 33 Prize Recipes
Los Angeles Times Cook Book - No. 2
Los Angeles Times Cook Book No. 2 (RED COVER 25 cents)
Los Angeles Times Cook Book Number Four
Los Angeles Times Cook Book Number Three
Los Angeles Times Cookbook Number Three (Red Cover)
Los Angeles Times Economy Cook Book Number Five
Los Angeles Times Prize Cook Book
Magnificent Chili Mess: 12th Annual World Championship Chili Cook-Off
Practical Recipes from the Globe Mills
Recipe Spectacular Contest
Western Family Champion Recipes
CITRUS
California Fruit Growers Exchange Recipes Culinary & Toilet
Charging The Human Battery
Sunkist Cook Book
Sunkist Holiday Bulletin
Sunkist Lemons bring out the flavor!
Sunkist Orange Recipes for Year-round Freshness!
Sunkist Recipes For Every Day
Soon you will be able to download this entire book! Due to their fragile nature, each is being digitized by hand. If you have particular interest in a particular cookbook, please reach out via the Contact Page, so it will be given priority.