Fannie Farmer
Standardized cooking measurements
American culinary educator (1857-1915).
Polio at 16 ended her plans for college; she went to cooking school instead, then took it over. In 1896 she published The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book — the first cookbook to use precise level-cup-and-teaspoon measurements instead of 'a pinch' or 'butter the size of an egg.' Sold 4 million+ copies, made home cooking learnable, and quietly invented the modern recipe.
Famous for
- The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book (1896)
- Level measurements ('the Mother of Level Measurements')
- Miss Farmer's School of Cookery
- Taught food and nutrition at Harvard Medical School
In Rubicon
Fannie Farmer is one of the historical characters you can play as in Rubicon, a trivia game where you answer in your own words and an AI judge reads what you meant. Fannie Farmer is filed under Food & Everyday Life, and is strongest at Food & Everyday Life and Society & Economy.
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