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The cooking classes, in which Kander was personally involved, were especially popular, and to facilitate the distribution of recipes a collection of them was printed in book form in 1901 as The Settlement Cook Book: The Way to a Man\u2019s Heart.\nAdvertising space was sold to finance the first edition, but the book proved to have great appeal beyond the cooking classes of the Settlement, and from the second edition it not only paid for itself but began returning profits to the Settlement. Kander continued to collect recipes from friends, teachers, and cooks around the world and to help edit subsequent editions; from 1914 she had sole editorial responsibility. 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