Fannie Merritt Farmer
Fannie Merritt Farmer (born March 23, 1857 in Boston , Massachusetts , † January 15, 1915 there ) was an American restaurateur and educator .
Life
Farmer took an interest in cooking as her mother's helper and enrolled at the Boston Cooking School in 1887. The Boston Cooking School was an institution designed to enable women to work as a cook after completing a two-year course.
After completing her course, Farmer herself began to work as a teacher at this school, became director there in 1894 and had a reputation for testing recipes until she had an exact idea of the cooking time and dosage of the additions. She is considered one of the first to believe that cooking is both an art and a science. In her book "Boston Cooking School", published at her own expense in 1896, each recipe began with an exact list of the ingredients and thus differed fundamentally from the cookbooks previously published in the USA, which only conveyed a vague idea of the recipe to be cooked in a few paragraphs relied on the reader having the necessary cooking skills.
The cookbook based on her is now published as " The Fannie Farmer Cookbook " and is still a standard work in American cuisine.
Works
- Boston Cooking School , 1896, later as The Fannie Farmer Cookbook
Web links
- Food and Cookery for the Sick and Convalescent , 1904 edition
- The Boston Cooking-School Cookbook , 1918 edition
- zzzebra - Fannie Farmer
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Farmer, Fannie Merritt |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American restaurateur and educator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 23, 1857 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Boston |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 15, 1915 |
| Place of death | Boston |