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Pat Kelly

President of the Boston Culinary Historians and editor of their newsletter for over 20 years.

Alice Bradley

Alice Bradley (1875-1946) was a pioneering cook and educator. She tested recipes for Fannie Farmer, taught at Miss Farmer’s School of Cookery, and eventually led the school.

Mary Yick

Mary Yick (1933 – 2013), fondly called “The Dragon Lady”, opened the Tiki Hut in 1961. She served Cantonese and Polynesian fusion food and cocktails in Boston’s Chinatown.

Dr Evelyn Abdalah Menconi

Lebanese-American cultural ambassador in Boston

Edith Ban

Holocaust survivor, opened Cafe Budapest in Boston in 1959 and managed it until her death in 1988

By standardizing measurements in her recipes, Farmer guaranteed her readers reliable results. The Fannie Farmer Cookbook became a classic kitchen text. Still widely available, the cookbook remains a popular home cooking reference.

Tommiejo Dixon

Tommiejo Dixon opened Ma Dixon’s in 1943, which is now a fixture of Boston’s food scene.

Ruby Foo

Ruby Foo moved to Boston in 1923 where she began a single-room restaurant in Boston’s Chinatown. Its popularity quickly grew, and she opened Ruby Foo’s “Den” in 1929—heralded as the first Chinese restaurant to successfully cater to non-Chinese clientele.

Abby Fisher

Formerly enslaved plantation cook who built a business as an upscale caterer and cookbook author

Dorothy Molter

Pennsylvania native Dorothy Molter spent over fifty years in Northern Minnesota, where she helped to run the Isle of Pines resort and provided nursing care for those in need. From the 1950s through the mid-1980s, she made batches of homemade root beer at her cabin on Knife Lake that drew thousands of tourists, anglers, and canoeists each summer and earned her the nickname “the Root Beer Lady.”