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Fanny Walker Yeatman
1876–1962
A home economist and food writer with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, she helped turn practical kitchen advice into clear, approachable guides for everyday cooks. She is especially remembered for work tied to the popular Aunt Sammy radio recipe programs and for preserving-home favorites like jellies, jams, and canned foods.
1 Audiobook
Selections from Aunt Sammy's Radio Recipes and USDA Favorites
by Ruth Van Deman, Fanny Walker Yeatman, Consumer and Food Economics Institute (U.S.)
About the author
Born in Washington, D.C., on October 6, 1876, and later dying in Chattanooga, Tennessee, on August 4, 1962, Fanny Walker Yeatman wrote during a period when home cooking and food preservation were becoming part of national public education.
She is best known for her work with the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Bureau of Home Economics. Sources on Aunt Sammy credit her as one of the women who prepared material for the USDA's radio programs, where she tested recipes and researched foods. Her published work includes Aunt Sammy's Radio Recipes and bulletins such as Home-made Jellies, Jams, and Preserves.
Yeatman's writing has an appealingly useful quality: direct, practical, and focused on helping ordinary households cook economically and well. That mix of research and everyday usefulness is what makes her work still interesting to readers today.