"Dancing in the Kitchen: Recipes from a Tap Dancer"
by Katherine Maxwell, softcover, 34 pages, $19.95.
My
mother, Mary Louise Winter, danced professionally—tap, ballet,
toe, and ballroom—and ran the La Mar School of Dance in the
1930's. Along with classes in a variety of dance forms to all ages,
her school
of dance put on
recitals and performances at local theatres and schools. Mary Louise
and her students performed on stage between movies at theatres presenting
double-feature
movies.
Mary Louise
met
and married
my father,
Berthold William Hirschberg, a dashing, up-and-coming
attorney
in San Francisco
in 1936.
Her dancing career was traded in for the roles of housewife, mother
of five, and cook. M.L., as she was called by family and friends, was
the best cook I have ever known. She prepared the everyday meals popular
in the 1940's and 1950's fo her five finicky children. And then whipped
up delicious, gourmet dishes to impress and bedazzle her worldly husband.
This little cookbook is a collection of my mother's surviving recipes,
is illustrated with promotional studio photos from her dancing days,
and is my tribute to her creative and flamboyant life.
Sally Katherine Hirschberg Maxwell
May 2010
You can order my book through Robert Hitchman's Photograph
America website, under the BOOKS catagory in
left navigation bar:
shop.photographamerica.com
