Fannie Farmer

Fannie Farmer (1857-1915), American authority on cookery. Fannie Merritt Farmer was born in Boston and received her early education in Medford, Massachusetts. She graduated from the Boston Cooking School, of which she was a director from 1892 to 1902. In the latter year she founded Miss Farmer's School of Cookery, Boston, with the purpose of instructing housewives and nurses in the art of cookery, rather than training prospective domestic science teachers. She edited The Boston Cooking School Cook Book (1896); 21 editions were published before her death. Out of this grew the popular Fannie Farmer Cookbook.