Fannie Farmer
Fannie Merritt Farmer was an American culinary expert whose Boston CookingSchool Cook Book became a widely used culinary text.
Fannie Farmer was born onMarch 1857 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, to Mary Watson Merritt and John Franklin Farmer, an editor and printer. Although she was the oldest of four daughters, born in a family that highly valued education and that expected young Fannie to go to college, she suffered a paralytic stroke at the age ofwhile attending Medford High School. Fannie could not continue her formal academic education for several years, she was unable to walk and remained in her parents care at home. During this time, Farmer took up cooking, eventually turning her mothers home into a boarding house that developed a reputation for the quality of the meals it served.
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