Women in the Kitchen: Twelve Essential Cookbook Writers Who Defined the Way We Eat, from 1661 to Today

Take a guess when you think the first cookbook was published. Ready? No, good guess but it's earlier than that. One more guess? No it's earlier than that too. The first cookbook, spoilers ahead, was actually published in 1661 by Hannah Woolley. Since those early days, Woolley has been joined by the likes of Fannie Farmer, Irma Rombauer, Julia Child, Edna Lewis, Marcella Hazan, and Alice Waters. These recipes and ideas changed not only how we as a society eat, but how we as a society live. Women in the Kitchen presents biographies of a dozen women who changed the world around them with their cookbooks and offers fifty original recipes.

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