Sunday, December 20, 2020

Independence Cake by Deborah Hopkinson illustrated by Giselle Potter

 Amelia Simmons was the first American to write an American cookbook, American Cookery published in 1796,  that utilized ingredients found in America.  She identified herself as "an American orphan".  Nothing else is known about her.

Ms. Hopkinson imagines what her life may have been like and what prompted her to write the cookbook.

-Borrowed from the library.



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