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Ida Lee Cary
A practical early 20th-century food writer, this author is best known for sharing tested recipes and advice for running a tea room. Her work offers a lively glimpse of home cooking and small-scale hospitality in Poughkeepsie, New York.
1 Audiobook
Cook book of tested receipes
by Ida Lee Cary
About the author
Little is firmly documented online about Ida Lee Cary's life, but her surviving books show a clear interest in dependable cooking and everyday food service. Reliable catalog and digitized-library records connect her with Cook book of tested receipes and Tea room business, both published in Poughkeepsie, New York, around 1920.
Her cookbook presents itself as a collection of tried recipes rather than a grand culinary statement, which gives it a warm, practical charm. The companion volume on tea-room management suggests experience not just in the kitchen, but in the work of serving guests and running a small food business.
Today, Cary's writing is especially appealing to readers interested in vintage cookbooks, domestic history, and the world of early American tea rooms. Even with only a small public record available, her books preserve a useful and very human snapshot of how cooking and hospitality were shared a century ago.