Written by a "Chef," Good Things and How to Cook Them is a cookery booklet with worry-free, homestyle recipes. Published in the latter part of the 1910s, the book offers simple and straightforward recipes, allowing women the opportunity to prepare the dishes with plenty of time left to complete the myriad of other household tasks expected of them. The cookbook provides recipes across all categories: breakfast, meats, vegetables, salads, soups, and more. The recipes are placed in sections that are in chronological order by meals that would be eaten in a day. The cookbook begins with recipes that can be made for lunch, followed by dinner, and then foods you would eat for dessert like pastries and cakes. Most of the recipes do not list the kitchen appliances or cooking tools needed. This cookbook is geared towards women, and especially those raising smaller children. Many of the recipes included have basic and commonplace ingredients, which infers the recipes were suitable for lower class families at the time. The cookbook also would have appealed to women living busy lives because of how simple the recipes are. This cookbook can be classified as an advertising cookbook because between every page of recipes is an advertisement from the Zam-Buk company. Zam-Buk sold a variety of health products that were purported to cure a range of ailments including skin diseases, injuries, irritations, eczema, and poison ivy. The advertisements in the cookbook include hand-drawn illustrations and pictures that show how the products can be used, as well as success stories from happy customers. Likely, this cookbook would have been sold at a grocery store or general store in the hopes of enticing consumers to purchase locally available Zam-Buk products.