[Sca-cooks] RE: Victoria //Fanny Farmer Editions

[Philip & Susan Troy]

johnna007h at netscape.net wrote:
>
> Greetings
>
> Actually, one does not have to go to
> the antiquarian market
> In order to get a pre-Fannie Farmer
> Boston School Cook Book.
>
> Dover offers a reprint:
>
> BOSTON COOKING SCHOOL COOK BOOK
> By Mrs. D. A. Lincoln.
>
> Subtitled: A Reprint of the 1883 Classic.
> Only $12.95. 560 pages.
>
> Dover also offers:
>
> THE FANNIE MERRITT FARMER ORIGINAL 1896
> BOSTON COOKING SCHOOL COOK BOOK
>
> For only $14.95.
>
> So, it  is relatively easy to obtain both
>  from Dover if one wishes
> to see the changes between
> these two early American classics.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Johnnae llyn Lewis
>
> Johnna Holloway
>
> ON: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 09:36:36 -0700
>     Susan Fox-Davis <selene at earthlink.net> wrote on the  
>    Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] victoria
>   
>
> Good old Bartleby, home of the wild and free public domain!  Fanny
>    Farmer's 1918
>    edition is available online <www.bartleby.com/87/> which the Bartleby
>    people chose
>    because it was the most recent edition actually edited by Farmer.
>     The
>    reproduction 1896 [still ed. by Farmer] seem to be readily available
>    from modern
>    book dealers, and the 1884 pre-Farmer edition is still findable from
>    antiquarian
>    book dealers.

Mine was a gift, and I believe it is the 1883 edition. I didn't know
there was a Dover reprint, but I'm not surprised; I've been using their
reprint of Charles Ranhofer's 1894 2nd edition of _The Epicurean_,
comprising most of what Delmonico's restaurant had ever had on their
menu up to that date, which has understandably become just a tad
crumbly. Seems my father-in-law practiced reading English, and learned
to cook, from this book, which he probably acquired second-hand in 1920
or so.

Boy, the weird stuff those Americans eat!

Adamantius
--
Phil & Susan Troy

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