Fannie Farmer

Fannie Merritt Farmer ( born March 23, 1857 in Boston, Massachusetts, † January 15, 1915 ibid ) was an American restaurateur and educator.

Life

Farmer became interested as a helper to her mother for the culinary arts and enrolled in 1887 at the Boston Cooking School as a student one. The Boston Cooking - School was an institution that should allow women to work after a two -year course as a chef.

After completing her course Farmer himself began to work as a teacher at this school, there was in 1894 Director and was reputed to test recipes until they had an exact idea of ​​cooking time and dosage of the encores. It is regarded as one of the first representatives of the opinion that cooking is both art and science. In their 1896 published at his own expense book " Boston Cooking School " each recipe began with a detailed list of ingredients and differed so fundamentally from the previously released in the U.S. cookbooks mediated only a vague idea of ​​being cooked recipe in a few paragraphs and it built, that the reader possessed the necessary cooking skills.

Dating back to her cookbook is published today as "The Fannie Farmer Cookbook " and is still a standard work of American cuisine.

Works

• Boston Cooking School, 1896, and later as The Fannie Farmer Cookbook