Fannie Farmer

Today's a very quick post for Women's History Month. It's Fannie Farmer's birthday today. If she were still alive, she would have reached the impressive age of 150.

Her cookbook is still alive, and very good it is too. She was a significant reformer and used teaching and writing about food as a path to changing society. My sort of woman. She also had to reinvent her life because of ailment - it happens to all the best people. She and Harriet Martineau are women I really respect.

The Old Foodie has a good entry about her, with picture and recipes. I think I might just have a facsimile of the cookbook. I'm going to drink some cinnamon tea (both delicious and good for blood pressure) and toast her with it.

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Some really good reading for the weekend. Some good words in there.

If anyone offers to practice tingo in my place, I shall point out that my books operate under the boomerang system and so do any other possessions of mine that you borrow. And I know a three year old who is guilty of ariga-meiwaku often. I always say thank you and look pleased. And my last two weeks has had far too many days of o ka la nokonoko.