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Title: Fannie in the Kitchen : The Whole Story From Soup to Nuts of How Fannie Farmer Invented Recipes with Precise Measurements by Deborah Hopkinson, Nancy Carpenter ISBN: 0-689-81965-X Publisher: Atheneum Pub. Date: 03 April, 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.88 (8 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Wonderful for classroom use
Comment: I am an educator who likes to use historical fiction with elementary students. Students love the story of FANNIE IN THE KITCHEN, and we have also used the book to talk about how cooking has changed over the years. I bring in old kitchen utensils from antique stores to show them. (Many kids can't identify a sifter, to say nothing of a butter mold! And when was the last time you saw a doughnut cutter??) We also use the book as a jumping off point to talk about math and measurements.
Although this is clearly a humourous, fictionalized take-off on a footnote to history, students and I also enjoy talking about how young Marcia must adjust to change, as her mother has a new baby. The way the illustrator depicts the developing relationship between Marcia and Fannie is delightful.
As the author note states, Fannie Farmer was one of the first to recommend precise measurements in cooking. What a fun way for kids to be introduced to this 19th century figure
Rating: 5
Summary: Fun Fiction
Comment: Kids might have seen the Fannie Farmer Cookbook in the kitchen but never known that Fannie Farmer was a real person. This is an obviously fictionalized story, but it does include some actual quotes from Farmer's early cookbook. Nancy Carpenter's illustrations combine Victorian clip art with her own drawings. Not a biography, but a fun introduction to the name of Fannie Farmer and a story about how a young girl gains confidence in the kitchen.
Rating: 4
Summary: Cute book, but historically inaccurate
Comment: Hopkinson has written a clever picture book incorporating tasty recipes, but take the details of Fannie Farmer's life with a grain of salt. Hopkinson has altered the facts to serve her story.
Farmer's first cookbook was an update of a cookbook, written by one of her predecessors at the Boston Cooking School, which already incorporated precise measurement using standard measuring cups and spoons. Farmer's contribution was "level" measurement (as suggested by Marcia) and kitchen-testing of all the recipes by the school's students and faculty.
Read "Fannie in the Kitchen" to your child as an introduction to Fannie Farmer. Then read "Perfection Salad" by Laura Shapiro to learn the true story.
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Title: Bear Dogs: Canines With a Mission by Ted Wood ISBN: 0802787584 Publisher: Walker & Co Pub. Date: May, 2001 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Animals Nobody Loves by Seymour Simon ISBN: 1587171554 Publisher: SeaStar Books Pub. Date: August, 2002 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
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Title: Buddy Is A Stupid Name for a Girl by Willo Davis Roberts, Karen Cipolla ISBN: 0689851642 Publisher: Aladdin Library Pub. Date: 01 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
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Title: Hannah of Fairfield (Pioneer Daughters) by Jean Van Leeuwen, Donna Diamond ISBN: 0141304995 Publisher: Puffin Pub. Date: January, 2001 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
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Title: The Great Whale of Kansas by Richard W. Jennings ISBN: 0618102280 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin/Walter Lorraine Books Pub. Date: 24 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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