Vernon Galster

Very little biographical information about this author is readily confirmed online, but library and public-domain records do firmly connect him with Chinese cook book, published in Morris, Illinois, in 1917. The booklet was issued under his own name and presents recipes in a practical, straightforward style aimed at readers making dishes such as chop suey, chow mein, and egg foo young at home.

Because so few reliable sources survive, it is safest to treat him as a little-documented figure whose reputation rests mainly on this single cookbook. Even so, that small volume has lasted: it appears in Library of Congress records, Internet Archive scans, and Project Gutenberg, which suggests continuing historical interest in early American writing about Chinese cooking.

The dates 1880–1937 are often attached to his name in online catalogs and ebook listings, but detailed biographical background beyond that was not clearly confirmed in the sources reviewed here.