Biographies – Food for Thought

Cover of Olive S. Allen's cookbook for Crisco, "200 Tested Recipes."

Biographies / Plant-based

Olive S. Allen: A French Home Cook Writes Crisco Recipe Book

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Clara Alden Spence portrait, circa 1930.

Airy Fairy Flour author Clara Alden Spence, 1920s-1930s

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Inside Frigidaire’s Test Kitchen: Meet Verna L. Miller, Home Economist 1920s-1960s

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Helen Louise Johnson, demonstrating electric cooking at the 1893 World's Fair.

1890s / Biographies

Helen Louise Johnson: Cooking with Lightning, 1893

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Mary Abel talk.

1890s / Biographies

Mary Hinman Abel: A Revolutionary in Domestic Science

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Ida Bailey Allen, circa 1928.

1920s / 1930s / 1940s / Biographies

Ida Bailey Allen: first TV cooking show

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Home Economist Irene Ady of Texas.

1940s / Biographies

Beyond the Mills: Texas Heart and Soul of Irene Nevill Aby

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Dorothy Kirk, magazine food editor.

Dorothy W. Kirk, Food Editor: From McCall’s to Woman’s Home Companion

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measuring spoons.

Recipe Testers

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Marye Dahnke, Trailblazer at Kraft

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Maria Parloa and the Harriet Beecher Stowe School

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Mary Ellis Ames on the radio for Pillsbury in 1935.

1935 Pillsbury’s Cookery Club – Radio Show & Booklets by (fictitious) Mary Ellis Ames

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Grace Viall Gray.

Grace Viall Gray – cooking booklet author, radio host, speaker, Illinois Farmers Institute

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Caroline B. King

Caroline B. King (1867-1947) editor, author for Hershey, Jell-O, &c.

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Isabella King Beach, later radio personality Frances Lee Barton.

1950s / Biographies

1956 Cookies Galore Home Baked are Best! by Frances Lee Barton, was she a real person?

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Kitchen Klatter magazine author and radio cooking show host, in the kitchen.

Longest-Running Cooking Show in Radio History, 60 Years of Kitchen-Klatter

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Marion Fisher, portrait.

Marian Cole Fisher: Cake for the President

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Elizabeth Mann Clark, author, 21 New Recipes for Frozen Desserts

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Lily Haxworth Wallace.

Lily Haxworth Wallace, Part I

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Mrs. Rose Knox, photographic portrait in black and white.

1920s / Biographies

1929 Dainty Desserts for Dainty People, Knox Gelatine, a woman-owned business

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Mrs. Louise P. Lillard of Cincinnati, owner of Snow King Baking Powder company standing at counter with ingredients, mixing batter in a bowl.

Woman-owned Southern business, Snow King Baking Powder

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black and white line art of arrowroot plant.

1930s / Biographies

Del-Nut Desserts crushed by the Depression

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1920s / Biographies

1925 Waldorf, Princess Royal, and Mistletoe brands – Anne Pierce, author

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A rare depiction of Caroline B. King, 1922. illustration.

1920s / Biographies / Cookbooks and Booklets

What Makes Jellies Jell? Caroline B. King

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1926 Floor plan for an eat-in kitchen.

Biographies / Historic Kitchens

1926 Convenient Kitchens by Greta Gray

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First commercial cooking show on the radio with a named host, picture of Anna J. Peterson.

Biographies / Cooking Shows

First Radio Cooking Show Celebrity

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Maria Willett Howard, Boston Cooking School principal, cookbook author

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Mrs Rorer vs Miss Colling

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1930 photo of Janette Kelley of Swansdown flour before working at Pillsbury.

The Other Betty Crocker

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