Cooking by the Book: Amelia Simmons to Martha Stewart

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Cooking by the Book: Amelia Simmons to Martha Stewart

January 18, 2013 - April 13, 2013

Explore the history of food in Connecticut using a diverse collection of cookbooks with recipes that range from the scrumptious to the not-so-tasty. This exhibit is created in a collaboration between Museum Studies students from Central Connecticut State University and graphic designs students from the University of Hartford. Cooking by the Book showcases one of only four surviving first editions of Amelia Simmons' American Cookery (1796), America's first cookbook, published in Hartford. Simmons' cookbook instructed women how to combine recipes from England with ingredients in America, creating a distinct American cuisine.