Look and Cook, 1956 large vintage cook book by Lillian Langseth-Christensen and Tatiana McKenna, Editor Helen Whistondale Bryson, published by Brown & Bigelow, Saint Paul, Minnesota, with about 16 Illustrations from listed New York artist Richard Langseth-Christensen.

Cook book is in 5 ring binder in good shape, normal wear for age, is enclosed in its own case.

A biography on author Lillian Langseth-Christensen from Wikipedia as follows:

"Lillian Langseth-Christensen's father was a former Austro-Hungarian cavalry officer who had traveled to New York City in 1904 to meet his future Austrian wife and stayed there forever. In 1906, her brother Edward was born in New York. The family lived in favorable financial conditions and could afford to visit the former home (except 1916-1918) every year."

"In 1914 Lillian met Gustav Klimt during a long stay in Vienna, a drawing that her mother bought from Klimt at the time was given to her as a gift years later.  In the course of this trip, the parents drove with Lillian to Karlovy Vary , Bohemia , where both grandmothers of the child lived. In New York, the parents participated intensively in the cultural life. Due to her cultural interests, Lillian came to the German Art and Decoration magazine as a child, for which the architect and designer Josef Hoffmann took photographs."

"In 1922, the 14-year-old, made in papers four years older with her mother, went to Vienna to be accepted by Josef Hoffmann into his class ( Hoffmann School ) at the Kunstgewerbeschule am Stubenring , now the University of Applied Arts Vienna . Back then Lillian's study plans were supported by the Viennese opera stage designer Joseph Urban , who later described her as her original Vienna mentor. Most of the young women in the bourgeoisie had other plans at the time: a solid wedding and starting a family."

"Lillian Langseth-Christensen had met Hoffmann from relevant literature and was fascinated by his work, even if, as she wrote, he communicated with his students almost wordlessly. Langseth-Christensen was now a student at Hoffmann and his assistant Oswald Haerdtl until 1925; After the summer vacation in 1925, Lillian never returned to the school of applied arts because of the sudden death of her brother Edward (he died of typhus in Paris)."

"Lillian Langseth-Christensen, after working as an interior designer in New York for several years, began to write regularly for the magazine Gourmet and published over 30 cookbooks in the following decades. To do this, she traveled to the Far East."

"About her time in Vienna she published the book A Design For Living in 1987. Among other things, she drew attention to the essential differences between Art Nouveau and the secession style she valued: this had omitted traditional ornaments - in contrast to the flowing lines and intricate lily motifs that were cared for by Art Nouveau and Art Nouveau. she also described in detail the fashion preferences of the upper and middle class women of Vienna at that time."

"She spent her retirement with her husband Richard Langseth-Christensen, a painter, in Lunz am See , Lower Austria."

Book in case size 12 inches H X 11 1/2 inches W. Book ships media mail.