120 + 2 pp. of publisher's ads. 6½x3½", original red cloth with color pictorial cover label. First Edition.

The authors were sisters of mixed race, their mother Chinese, their father British. Sara was a Boston artist, while “Watanna”, pseudonym of Winnifred Eaton, published the most popular Japanese-themed novels at the turn of the century. (Still another sister, Edith Eaton, was the author of the first Chinese-American fiction.)  This landmark cookbook offers some 200 recipes for “oriental” dishes like Lychee Chicken, Beef “Chou Main”, Gar Lu Chop Suey, Bird’s Nest Soup, and Stewed Pigeon, using “simple and clean ingredients” in the hope that “Westerners” would “cease to feel that natural repugnance which assails one when about to taste a strange dish of a new and strange land.”