The Fabulous Fannie Farmer: Kitchen Scientist and Americas Cook

ISBN: 1635926122

Author: Smith, Emma Bland

Condition: New

Fannie Farmer, Americas most famous cooking teacher, discovers that precise measurements are a recipe for cooking success in this STEAM picture book that includes two of her classic recipes.When Fannie Farmer learned to cook in the late 1800s, recipes could be pretty silly. They might call for a goodly amount of salt or a lump of butter or a suspicion of nutmeg. Girls were supposed to use their feminine instincts in the kitchen (or maybe just guess). Despite this problem, Fannie loved cooking, so when polio prevented her from going to college, she became a teacher at the Boston Cooking School. Unlike her mother or earlier cookbook writers, Fannie didnt believe in feminine instincts. To her, cooking was a science. Shed noticed that precise measurements and specific instructions ensured that cakes rose instead of flopped and doughnuts fried instead of burned. Students liked Fannies approach so much that she wrote a cookbook. Despite skepticism from publishers, Fannies book was a recipe for success.Written with humor and brought to life with charming illustrations, this book explores the origins of Fannie Farmers quintessentially American cookbook. A cookbook that was beloved because it allowed anyone to make tasty things, with no guessing, no luck-and certainly no feminine instincts-required.