Eliza Leslie (1787–1858), cookbook author
As a young woman, she studied at Elizabeth Goodfellow’s well-known Philadelphia cooking school. Leslie’s magnum opus was the 1837 Directions for Cookery, frequently reissued (under various titles) until 1892. Still unsurpassed among American cookbooks for civilized writing, sound culinary instincts, and attention to subtle detail, it was the most widely used American culinary manual of its day and shaped the tastes of 19th-century cooks from the East Coast to the end of the Oregon Trail.
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