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Fannie Farmer
American chef
For the candymaker, see Fanny Farmer.
Fannie Merritt Farmer (23 March 1857 – 16 January 1915) was an American culinary expert whose Boston Cooking-School Cook Book became a widely used culinary text.
Education
Fannie Farmer was born on 23 March 1857 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, to Mary Watson Merritt and John Franklin Farmer, an editor and printer. The family were Unitarians.[1][2] The oldest of four daughters in a family that highly valued education, she was expected to go to college, but suffered a paralytic stroke at the age of 16 while attending Medford High School.
[3] For the next several years she was unable to walk and remained in her parents' care at home.
Fannie merritt farmer biography
During this time Farmer took up cooking, eventually developing a reputation for the quality of the meals her mother's boarding house served.
Farmer developed a substantial limp that never left her. At the age of 30 she enrolled in the