Papers, 1893-1980

Miss Farmer's School of Cookery

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Fannie Farmer left the Boston Cooking School in 1902, and subsequently opened Miss Farmer's School of Cookery, located in Boston. After Fannie Farmer's death in 1915 at the age of 57, her own school continued under the directorship of Alice Bradley until the mid-1940s. ...

Farmer, Fannie Merritt, 1857-1915

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Fannie Farmer was born on 23 March 1857 in Boston, Massachusetts. She was expected to go to college, but suffered a paralytic stroke at the age of 16 while attending Medford High School. For the next several years she was unable to walk and remained in her parents' care at home. During this time Farmer took up cooking, eventually developing a reputation for the quality of the meals her mother's boarding house served. At the age of 30 she enrolled in the Boston Cooking School. In 1891, she ...

Boston Cooking School.

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Alice Bradley, 1875-1946

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AB was born on June 28, 1875, in Bradford, Massachusetts. She began her lifelong culinary career by giving cooking demonstrations with Janet McKenzie Hill, who in 1896 became editor of American Cookery, the magazine of the Boston Cooking School (BCS). AB went on to attend the BCS, where Fannie Merritt Farmer (FMF) was director; she and other students tested recipes for Farmer's new book, The Boston Cooking School Cook Book, which became famous for its novel use of precise, level mea...

Atwood, Marion Bradley, 1887-

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