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You will love this book if you enjoy domestic comedy, quick talk between friends, farm mishaps, and warm-hearted stories about how a marriage grows.
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What if a proposal sounded like an invitation to dinner, with the guest as the main course? In the first chapter of The Gentle Art of Cooking Wives, four young women in a parlor club tease one another about a newspaper article called How to Cook Wives.
Elizabeth Strong Worthington built this comic novel around that one joke. Husbands are the cooks, wives are the fish, and the fire needs steady care. Randolph Chance boasts that managing a woman is as easy as falling off a log. His quiet friend Steve Loveland, who speaks mostly with a fireside poker, is not so sure. You get a gentle man, a wild young bride named Nannie, a cow with a grudge, and plain lessons about kindness.
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- 1A club of girls cooks up the questionFree
- 2A boastful man learns to listen to the poker
- 3Two weddings and a lonely man by the fire
- 4A proposal made in a muddy brook
- 5The farm fights back against the newlyweds
- 6A bunch of violets answers a ruined garden
- 7Nannie turns cook and teaches other households
- 8What the cooking joke finally means
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A club of girls cooks up the question
The book opens in a parlor where four girls have formed a club. Prue is elected president before anyone calls for a vote. She keeps calling the girls to order, and Hilda keeps answering with jokes. The business before the house is a newspaper article called How to Cook Wives.
The scraps are funny because they sound like a recipe. First catch your fish. Start with a clear fire, not too hot. Some husbands, the writer says, make things so hot in private that their wives are reduced to cinders, then serve them cold in public.
Then the girls turn the cooking talk on one another. Puddy will be made into croquettes, and Prue will be baked in a genteel, modern way. Nannie cries that she will be roasted, just wait and see. We learn that she has no mother and never received a caress at home.
Walking down the avenue, Nannie watches children run to greet their fathers and feels something she cannot name. Then she hears in her head a voice calling, Wives for dinner, and she answers aloud, No, thank you.
A joke about cooking can carry a real fear of marriage.
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- LengthAbout 36,600 words
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Questions about L’art délicat de cuisiner les épouses
What is The Gentle Art of Cooking Wives about?
It follows Steve Loveland, a gentle newspaperman, and Nannie Branscome, a headstrong girl he marries to rescue from a bad match. Their country life, a fierce cow, and a joking newspaper article about cooking wives shape their growth.
What does How to Cook Wives mean in the book?
It is the title of a newspaper article that treats a husband as a cook and his wife as a dish. The joke returns throughout the book, linking recipe words to how people treat each other at home.
Who are the main characters?
Steve Loveland and Nannie Branscome are the central couple. Randolph Chance, his friend, and Randolph's wife Constance form the second pair. The cook Bridget, the cow Sarah Maria and the neighbor Hayseed add comedy and comment.
Is The Gentle Art of Cooking Wives a funny book?
Yes, much of it is comic, with a runaway cow, hens that will not lay, a trial over an oar, and quick talk. It also has warm, serious moments about kindness, loneliness and respect in marriage.
What is the main message of the book?
The book says that affection and patience can change a person more than orders or scolding. It also shows that husbands and wives must share money, respect and understanding, and not take them for granted.
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Worthington, Elizabeth Strong. The Gentle Art of Cooking Wives. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-gentle-art-of-cooking-wives.
Worthington, E. S. (2026). The gentle art of cooking wives. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-gentle-art-of-cooking-wives (Original work published 1900)
Worthington, Elizabeth Strong. The Gentle Art of Cooking Wives. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-gentle-art-of-cooking-wives.
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