author
Carrie V. Shuman
Best known for compiling a lively 1893 cookbook tied to the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, this editor helped preserve a rich snapshot of American home cooking and women's public work. Her book brings together hundreds of recipes from prominent contributors, giving it both culinary and historical appeal.
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Favorite Dishes : a Columbian Autograph Souvenir Cookery Book
by Carrie V. Shuman
About the author
Carrie V. Shuman is known as the compiler of Favorite Dishes: A Columbian Autograph Souvenir Cookery Book, first published in Chicago in 1893. The book was created in connection with the World's Columbian Exposition and gathered more than three hundred autograph recipes, along with portraits and illustrations, into a single celebratory volume.
What makes her work memorable is that it sits at the crossroads of food history and women's history. Later descriptions of the book note that it drew on contributions from the Board of Lady Managers of the exposition, and that it reflected the social ambitions and public influence of well-connected women of the period.
Reliable biographical details about Shuman herself appear to be scarce in the sources I could confirm, so it is safest to remember her primarily through this compilation. Even so, Favorite Dishes has lasted well beyond its original moment, continuing to interest readers as both a cookbook and a historical document.