Includes recipes. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Hannah Wooley 1622-1675 -- Hannah Glasse 1708-1770 -- Amelia Simmons (dates unknown) -- Maria Rundell 1745-1828 -- Lydia Child 1802-1880 -- Sarah Rutledge 1782-1855 -- Fannie Farmer 1857-1915 -- Irma Rombauer 1877-1962 -- Julia Child 1912-2004 -- Edna Lewis 1916-2006 -- Marcella Hazan 1924-2013 -- Alice Waters 1944- -- Epilogue: Where we go from here.
Summary:
"Anne Willan, multi-award-winning culinary historian, cookbook writer, cooking teacher, and founder of La Varenne Cooking School in Paris, explores the lives and work of women cookbook authors whose important books have defined cooking over the past three hundred years. Beginning with the first published cookbook by Hannah Woolley in 1661, up to Alice Waters today, these women, and books, created the canon of the American table. Focusing on the figures behind the recipes, Women in the Kitchen traces the development of American home cooking from the first, early colonial days to transformative cookbooks by Fannie Farmer, Irma Rombauer, Julia Child, Edna Lewis, and Marcella Hazan. Willan offers a short biography of each influential woman, including her background, and a description of the seminal books she authored. These women inspired one another, and in part owe their places in cooking history to those who came before them. Featuring fifty original recipes, as well as updated versions Willan has tested and modernized for the contemporary kitchen, this engaging narrative seamlessly moves through history to help readers understand how female cookbook authors have shaped American cooking today" --Amazon.
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