Goddess of the fries and stews, American wit and humor. Cooks -- Caricatures and cartoons. Courtship -- Caricatures and cartoons. Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) -- Caricatures and cartoons. A cook wearing a bonnet holds a pot on a stove. She has a long pointed nose. The Valentine suggests she is too ugly to find love. Text: Goddess of the fries and stews, / To court the male sex ‘tis no use; / Your nose I’m sure is only fit / To make a kitchen roasting spit; / Then cut your foolish ways, pray do, / I’ll ne’er have a Valentine like you. Signed: Pickering. Provenance: Helfand, William H.. [London : Lloyd] [between 1840 and 1880?] Caricatures and cartoons. Comic valentines. digitool:77631 Comic Valentines, 14.46