Lucyna Ćwierczakiewiczowa

Lucyna Ćwierczakiewiczowa [ ˌ lu ʦɨna ʨf ʲ erʧak ʲ evi ˌ ʧova ] (* 1829, † February 26, 1901 in Warsaw) was a Polish writer and author of very popular cookbooks in the Polish language in the second half of the 19th century.

Life and work

Ćwierczakiewiczowa was the daughter of the respected family of Bachman. 1858, she published her first book: Jedyne praktyczne przepisy wszelkich zapasów spiżarnianych oraz pieczenia ciast ( "The only practical compendium of recipes for all pantries and pie pastry "). Their work was based on culinary experience of the Polish szlachta in the 17th and 18th centuries. In 1860, she made her second cookbook out: 365 obiadów za Pięć Zlotych ( "365 meals for 5 zlotys ").

From 1865 onwards she had a column in the weekly newspaper Bluszcz about culinary arts and fashion. She was also Associate of the Kurier Warszawski, the most important former Polish newspaper. Other publications in the 1870s they had become a respected person. She received a number of prominent personalities in their home, among others, author Bolesław Prus was one of her guests.

By 1923, her first cookbook was published 23 times ( 130,000 expenditure). These are far more conditions than the books of the Polish writer Henryk Sienkiewicz and Bolesław Prus experienced together.

Ćwierczakiewiczowas large girth - she weighed about 130 kilograms - combined with their arrogance, brought her a nickname in Poland: Ćwierciakiewiczowa, an allusion to the Polish word ćwierć, which means a quarter. This nickname became so popular in Poland that he was accidentally used even in reputable scientific studies.

Since 1875 Ćwierczakiewiczowa was an annual publication entitled Kolęda dla Gospodyń out ( "Calendar Girls" ). This publication contains not only recipes also women's suffrage issues and poems and novels.