Alternate episode title: I’ll Farmer Your Fannie

Do you look at your kitschy, 90’s, chicken-themed measuring cup set and wonder why we use measuring cups at all? We can thank the “Mother of Level Measurements” for making it cool to use measuring cups, the basic recipe format, and so much more. Join Nicole and Julia as they follow Fannie Farmer from her humble beginnings to being the absolute alpha girlboss that we still know and love today. And if you love rambling tangents, then this is the episode for you.

Our theme song is “Red Onions” by Louie Zong, off of his album Vegetable Soul: https://louiezong.bandcamp.com/album/vegetable-soul

We’re on Twitter at @girlslunch and on Instagram @girlslunchpod. Nicole is on Twitter @nicoleh262 and her website is nicolehylton.com. Julia is smarter than all of us and not on social media.

Links to Sources:

• Veit, H. Z., Knuppel, J., Railton, B., & Eyler, J. (2018, December 4). The rise of cookbooks in America. The Saturday Evening Post.

• Willan, A. (2021). Women in the kitchen: Twelve essential cookbook writers who defined the way we eat, from 1661 to today. Scribner.

• Fannie Farmer and the modern recipe, Tasting History with Max Miller

• Farmer, F. M. (1998). The original Boston Cooking-School Cook Book, 1896. H.L. Levin Associates.

• Shapiro, L. (2008). Perfection Salad: Women and Cooking at the Turn of the Century.