Women in the Kitchen: Twelve Essential Cookbook Writers Who Defined the Way We Eat, from 1661 to Today
Anne Willan is a culinary educator and something of an icon for food professionals both in Europe and the US. I first met Anne (well, OK, via the TV screen) when she appeared with Martha Stewart, that celebrated and periodically controversial American culinary TV hostess. Such is her fame – Ms Stewart had the world of gastronomic authorities from which to choose her guests.
This multi-award-winning teacher is also a food historian and cookbook writer, and is the founder of La Varenne Cooking School in Paris. In Women in the Kitchen: Twelve Essential Cookbook Writers Who Defined the Way We Eat, from 1661 to Today, Anne explores the lives and careers of women cookbook authors whose noteworthy tomes have shaped cooking over the past three and a half centuries.
Engaging and accessible style
The book traces the origins of American cooking through profiles of a dozen pivotal women writers, starting with Hannah Woolley in the mid-1600s and including Fannie Farmer, Julia Child, and Alice Waters. Women in the Kitchen presents some of their classic recipes (such as The Original Boston Cream Pie) as well as contemporary versions. Anne has tested and adapted the dishes to better suit a 21st century kitchen, and she has an engaging and accessible style, making it a good read as well.
Women in the Kitchen would be the perfect gift for any food enthusiast. Budding chefs will be inspired – but that inspiration should surely be received not only by aspiring women but men as well. It’s about dreams, flavours and a lot of hard work, and that is common to all.
Women in the Kitchen: Twelve Essential Cookbook Writers Who Defined the Way We Eat, from 1661 to Today
Author: Anne Willan
Published by: Scribner
Price: £20.00
ISBN-13: 978-1501173318