Description
Author: Fannie Merritt Farmer
Title: The Fannie Merritt Farmer Boston Cooking School Cookbook
Revised by: Wilma Lord Perkins
Illustrator: Alison Mason Kingsbury
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Place: Boston and Toronto
Year: 1962
Edition: Tenth edition, 1962 reprint
Format: Hardcover
Page Count: 596
Dust Jacket: Not present in the photographs.
Fannie Farmer’s name became synonymous with dependable recipes and precise measurements. First published in 1896, her Boston Cooking School cookbook helped establish the measured, clearly explained approach that generations of American home cooks came to expect.
For the tenth edition, Wilma Lord Perkins completely revised the book, carrying Farmer’s practical instruction into the mid-century kitchen. Drawings by Alison Mason Kingsbury accompany this substantial reference to American home cooking.
This 1962 printing retains the tan cloth binding with orange lettering. Its unusually detailed publication history records the cookbook’s growth from an initial printing of just 3,000 copies to nearly three million—a remarkable story printed inside the book itself.