Mrs. Goodfellow : the story of America's first cooking school / Becky Libourel Diamond.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Diamond, Becky Libourel.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cooking schools--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--History.

Cooking schools.

History.

Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.

Physical Description:

xi, 284 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Yardley, Pa. : Westholme, [2012]

Summary:

"In Philadelphia during the first decades of the nineteenth century, a widow, Mrs. Elizabeth Goodfellow, ran a popular bakery and sweet shop. In addition to catering to Philadelphia's wealthy families and a reputation of having the finest desserts and sweet dishes in the young country, her business stood out from every other establishment in another way: she ran a small school to learn the art of cooking, the first of its kind in America. Despite her fame--references to her cooking as a benchmark abound in the literature of the period--we know very little about who she was. Since she did not keep a journal and never published any of her recipes, we have to rely on her students, most notably Eliza Leslie, who fortunately recorded many of Goodfellow's creations and techniques. Goodfellow is known to have made the first lemon meringue pie and for popularizing regional foods, such as Indian (corn) meal. Her students also recall that Mrs. Goodfellow stressed using simple wholesome ingredients that were locally grown, presaging modern culinary fashion. By assembling the many parts of this puzzle from old recipe books, advertisements, letters, diaries, genealogical records, and other primary sources, researcher and writer Becky Diamond has been able to provide a more complete portrait of this influential figure in cooking history"--Publisher description.

Contents:

Who was Mrs. Goodfellow?

Ingredients

Dining out

Mrs. Goodfellow's cooking school

Directions for cookery

Lemon meringue pie

Modern cooking schools.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781594161575

1594161577

OCLC:

769991153