Amelia Simmons (active 1796), cookbook author
No evidence survives of her existence beyond the name on the title page of American Cookery, published in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1796 (the author calls herself “An American Orphan”) and, in amended form, later that year in Albany, New York. Despite some recipes lifted from an English source, it is the first American-published cookbook to use New World ingredients like cranberries, squash, and local fish and game.
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