Like most modern day, self-taught chef's I have, of course, heard of The Fannie Farmer Cookbook. First published in 1896, it's currently in its' 13th Edition, which is pretty impressive since Fannie Farmer died in 1915. Granted cooking has
changed a lot in the century since she first began inspiring young
wives and mothers to create lovely meals at home.
She ran the original
"test kitchen" at The Boston Cooking School, constantly reworking
recipes until they were just right and eventually included in the
cookbook. Who knows what she would make of all our fancy gadgets and
time-saving devices, but after reading Fannie's Last Supper
God knows delivering dinner in the Victorian-era was no small task, as was discovered by the book's author Chris Kimball, the founder of Cook's Magazine and host of America's Test Kitchen.