[Sca-cooks] Books was Martha Washington's Booke of Cookery

[Johnna Holloway]

What's even worse and a total travesty these days is that
Columbia University Press has placed a picture of George Washington
with a cherry on a fork on the cover of the paperback edition.
It wasn't even his family's cookery mss.

Johnna

On Apr 10, 2010, at 11:54 AM, Ron Carnegie wrote:

>  This would certainly be the more accurate understanding of this  
> book.  It
> is called "Martha Washington's book of cookery" because that will  
> sell more
> copies than  "Frances Parke Custis' book of Cookery".  I don't  
> believe it is
> clear who actually first started collecting the receipts in the  
> book, but it
> was NOT Martha.  Two book find themselves in this odd situation.   
> The one we
> are discussing and "George Washington's Rules of Civility".  Neither  
> of
> these were authored by the people to whom they are attributed.
>
> Ranald de Balinhard, who is in the mundane world a Washington Scholar
> -------
> It's far better to think of Martha Washington as a woman of her
> time who was given a bound culinary manuscript upon her first marriage
> in 1749 and who in time passed that manuscript along to her  
> granddaughter
> Nellie Custis in 1799.
>
> Johnna