Sunday, April 25, 2021

Women cookbook authors

Hannah Glasse vs Ann Cook, Margaret Dods was Christian Isobel Johnstone. Glasse (1708-1770), the most well known, published her first book The Art of Cookery in 1747. Cook's The Professed Cook came out in 1754 with her critique of Glasse. Johnstone (1781-1857) wrote The Cook and Housewife's Manual 1826, using the name of a character created by Sir Walter Scott in 1823. All will be explained in two upcoming talks, one by Ivan Day.

UPCOMING TALKS

Mar 15 2023 Wed 5:30 Amelia Simmons and America’s First Cookbook 1796. Pamela Cooley. Oneida County Historical Society NY HERE or HERE

// Apr 19 2023 Wed 2:30 The Language of Food - Eliza Acton. author of biographical historical novels Annabel Abbs. National Archives UK £5-15 presale HERE or soon HERE

//Apr 23 2023 Sun 1 Elizabeth Raffald, England’s Most Influential Housekeeper. Neil Buttery author Before Mrs. Beeton: Elizabeth Raffald, England’s Most Influential Housekeeper. Culinary Historians of Canada. Pay-as-you-may Eventbrite HERE or soon HERE

TAPES OF PAST TALKS

Women in the Kitchen, Twelve Essential Cookbook Writers Who Defined the Way We Eat, from 1661 to Today. Anne Willan. Culinary Historians of Chicago. Nov 28 HERE TAPE HERE

US COOKBOOK AUTHORS

Searching for Amelia: A Quest for the Author of the First American Cookbook. Pamela Cooley. Culinary Historians of Southern California Oct 9 2021 TAPE HERE

Old Southern Cookery: Mary Randolph's Recipes from America’s First Regional Cookbook Adapted for Today’s Kitchen. Mary Randolph’s The Virginia House-Wife 1824. Dr. Chris Hendricks. Spartanburg County Public Libraries. June 2021 TAPE HERE

The Queens of New Orleans Creole Cuisine: From Tante Zoe to Leah Chase. “African-American women from the 18th-20th century were major contributors to establishing New Orleans world famous Creole cuisine.” Zella Palmer. The Hermann-Grima + Gallier Historic Houses. LA Mar 10 2021 7pm HERE TAPE HERE

Lena Richard and Julia Child: Two Women Who Changed Culinary History. Lena Richard (1892-1950) wrote New Orleans Cook Book, and Julia Child (1912-2004) wrote The French Chef. Paula Johnson, Ashley Rose Young, 2021 Francophonie Celebration. Museum of Work & Culture. RI Mar 10 2021 7pm HERE TAPE HERE

Julia Child and Company: Culinary Delights at the Schlesinger Library. Marylène Altieri. Nov 13 TAPE HERE

Betty Crocker & Her Cookbook that Changed How America Cooks. Dr. Leslie Goddard. New City Library, NY Dec 7 HERE TAPE HERE

Lady Editor: Sarah Josepha Hale and the Making of the Modern American Woman. cookbook author, editor of Godey’s, promote for Thanksgiving as holiday. Melanie Kirkpatrick. PhilaAthenaeum. Dec 23 2021 TAPE HERE, or C-SPAN Oc 6 2021 TAPE HERE

Women, Philanthropy, Recipes & Social Progress: Review of Primary Resources. Nicole Stocker, Nancy Webster, Catherine Lambrecht. Illinois History Conference at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum. Oct 2021 TAPE HERE An 18th Century Cooking Challenge: Exploring Hannah Bloomfield’s Cookbook. Her handwritten recipe manuscript. Carrie Blough. DAR Museum. 2019 TAPE HERE

SUFFERAGE COOKBOOKS

A Recipe for Subversion: How Suffragists Used Cookbooks to Fight for the Vote. HFSDV and Alice Paul Institute. Dan Macey and Lucy Beard. Aug 8 TAPE HERE

All Stirred Up: Suffrage Cookbooks, Food, and the Battle for Women’s Right to Vote with Laura Kumin. President Woodrow Wilson House Oct 2 TAPE HERE

Baking for Suffrage: How “Good Cooking and Sure Voting Went Hand in Hand.” NY State Museum. Facebook live tape 20 min. Aug 5 HERE TAPE HERE

MEXICO

Mexico’s first female cookbook author Torres de Rubio "was not only Mexico’s first female cookbook author but also the first to publish a regional cookbook in her 1896 trailblazing work, Cocina michoacana.” Maite Gomez-Rejon. La Plaza de Cultura y Artes LA Mar 2021 HERE Facebook TAPE HERE Cocina Michoacana ckbk online HERE

The Kitchen Philosopher: Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz. A 17th cen nun who wrote Mexico’s earliest kitchen manuscript. Maite Gómez-Rejón. LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes TAPE HERE

Jul 19 Mon 6 The Kitchen Philosopher: Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz. Wrote the earliest kitchen manuscript in 17th cen Mexico. Maite Gómez-Rejón, ArtBites. La Plaze de Cultura y Artes CA HERE TAPE HERE

Se 19 Sun 4 Mexico’s Early Cookbooks. “colonial kitchen manuscripts, the first printed cookbooks post-Independence through the Revolution in the early 20th century.” Maite Gomez-Rejon. The Culinary Historians of Ann Arbor (CHAA) HERE TAPE HERE

UK

Se 12 Sun 2 Hannah Glasse – Our Forgotten Hexham Heroine. “three short films each inspired by one of a collection of Hannah’s letters to her aunt held by Northumberland Archives within the Allgood family collection.” [Glasse 1708-1770, illegitimate child of landowner Isaac Allgood, wrote The Art of Cookery Made Plain & Easy in 1747] Northumberland Archives HERE. Three ~15 min films with Glasse (actress) talks about many topics from letters while making the recipe. Well done. filmed at Blackfriars priary/ restaurant in Newcastle, then Wallington Hall (2d film) TAPES Intro, pickle. Plague recipe HERE Mushroom catsup. Rebels HERE Currey. India HERE. A Letter from Hannah Glasse to her aunt Mrs Widdrington with a recipe against the Plague HERE Archives Learn HERE

Hannah Glasse. Films and info at Northumberland Archives. HERE

Glasse, Hannah. The Art of Cookery, Made Plain and Easy. 6th London: 1758 (1747) HERE

Cook, Ann. Professed Cookery. 3rd ed London: 1760 (1754) HERE

Keep calm and Fanny on : the many careers of Fanny Cradock with Kevin Geddes. Westminster Libraries. Jul 16 2021 TAPE HERE

Jul 18 Sun 9 At the Present Time: Gender, class, politics, and the cookbook in Ireland. “Origins of the cookbook in Ireland and to some of recent publications by culinary historian Dorothy Cashman.” PhotoIreland Festival. Donation HERE TAPE HERE Website with stories, recipes, projects, more HERE

THE SUBJECTS OF THE ORIGINAL POST - NEITHER WERE TAPED

Apr 27 Tue 7:30 Highwaymen, Scandal and Haggis: Recipes from the Cleikum Inn. [The Cook and Housewife’s Manual… by Mrs Margaret Dods, of the Cleikum Inn, St Ronan’s. Edinburgh: 1826.] Dods, a character in Sir Walter Scott's book St. Ronan's Well, 1823 and the Cleikum Inn's "role in both the literary and physical landscape of nineteenth century Britain." Amy Beingessner. The Centre for Scottish Studies. Canada HERE not taped

Dods, Margaret. The Cook and Housewife's Manual. Edinburgh: 1826 HERE

Wilson, John. “Meg Dods’s Cookery” in The Works of Professor Wilson. v5 Edinburgh: 1856 HERE

Perkins, Pam. A taste for Scottish fiction: Christian Johnstone’s Cook and housewife’s manual. European Romantic Review March 2000 p248-258. Also In: Women Writers and the Edinburgh Enlightenment 2010 chapter 3 p207-280

May 27 Thur 2 Professed Jealousy: The Tale of Two Hexham Cooks. “Hannah Glasse, the daughter of a wealthy local landowner, was the author of the best selling recipe book of the period, The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy (1747). Ann Cook prepared food in her husband's Hexham Inn, but also wrote a cookery book The Professed Cook (1754)” Ivan Day. Northumberland Archives UK not taped HERE

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