Jang Gye-hyang
The oldest extant Korean cookbook, written circa 1670 by Lady Jang Gye-hyang, was passed down through generations of her descendants without it ever occurring to any of them that this held more significance than a family recipe book.
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Judith Jones
This editor not only rescued The Diary of Anne Frank from the reject pile, she was also a champion for Julia Child’s Mastering the Art of French Cooking.
Isabella Beeton
Mrs Beeton’s Book of Household Management sold over 2 million copies internationally, outsold at the time only by the Bible.
Bessie Couture
Bessie Couture was the owner and operator of two restaurants in Skagway, Alaska starting in the 1890s.
Fumiko Yoshitada
Co-inventor of the rice cooker
Eliza Jane Ashley
Eliza Jane Burnett Dodson Ashley spent more than thirty years as the cook in the Arkansas Governor’s Mansion, serving from the administration of Francis Cherry to Bill Clinton. Her 1985 book Thirty Years at the Mansion garnered her national attention.
Dianne Davidson
Australian viticulturist and company director
Katherine Jones
1600s Viscountess Ranelagh and woman of letters
Nina Zagat
Co–founder of the eponymous Zagat guide
Dawn M Blackman Sr.
As Dawn M. Blackman Sr. tells the story, “I was a city girl … I did not know a thing about gardening. Then, in 2003, I started gardening with 10 neighborhood children.” That project, started in her 50s, grew into Randolph Street Community Garden.