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Farmer, Fannie Merritt, 1857-1915

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Personal name headingFarmer, Fannie Merritt, 1857-1915
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Variant(s)Farmer, Fannie, 1857-1915
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Birth date1857-03-23
Death date1915-01-15
Place of birthBoston (Mass.)
Field of activityCooking--Study and teaching
AffiliationBoston Cooking School (Boston, Mass.) Miss Farmer's School of Cookery
Found inThe Boston Cooking-School cook book, 1930: title page (Fannie Merritt Farmer)
Wikipedia, October 22, 2015 (Fannie Merritt Farmer, born March 23, 1857 in Boston, Mass., died January 15, 1915, trained at the Boston Cooking School, later became its principal, left in 1902 to start Miss Farmer's School of Cookery)
New York times, 9 July 2018: in one of a series of "Overlooked" obituaries (Fannie Farmer, modern cookery's pioneer; born March 23, 1857, Boston, Mass., died Jan. 15, 1915, aged 57; foremost cooking teacher, writer and lecturer of her day; enrolled in the Boston Cooking School at age 31, and joined the staff just after graduating, in 1889; responsible for the Boston Cooking School Cook Book, first published under her name in 1896; started Miss Farmer's School of Cookery in 1902; also acted as food editor for the influential magazine, Women's Home Companion.)
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