Cook Books and Cookbooks

Because I write a column called The Forgotten Kitchen for a local newspaper, I delve into a lot of cookbooks that were written before 1930. I love to read the old recipes, written before recipe writing began to be standardized by Fannie Farmer and the Boston Cooking-school and its corresponding cook book in 1901. The home economics movement was beginning and beliefs about nutrition we adopted, sometimes without real evidence. That doesn’t necessarily make the recipes any less delicious.