![]() And when they were teenagers, Learning to Cook with Marion Cunningham was published and became a trusted resource for teens and older beginners. When I asked my kids, now in their thirties, what cookbooks they could remember from their childhoods, my daughter’s first response was Cunningham’s Cooking with Children: 15 Lessons for Children, Age 7 and Up, Who Really Want to Learn to Cook. It was still my favorite when my children were small and I was cooking for a young family. I began cooking when I had my first apartment in college, and my first “bible” was The Fannie Farmer Cookbook, a revision of the original by Marion Cunningham. When my mother passed away, I gave that heirloom to my daughter, an excellent cook in her own right. She relied on a 1940s edition of The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book by Fannie Merritt Farmer, who published the first edition in 1896. ![]() She didn’t involve us in the making of the meal, but she was my model of a home cook who knew the importance of families eating together. How does a person learn to cook? My mother prepared family meals every evening. ![]()
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