Show low ilow I A good cook book was written some fifty years ago it lady called upon mr longman a celebrated london publisher and pleaded give me the subject of a book for which the world stands indeed In need and andi 1 I will write it t W jor for you 74 asked are you an author auth dir 1 I ani am a poet poe t ovas the reply but the world does not wani poems the publisher remarked a little dubiously well we want a good cookery book then sald caid the lady you advise roe me to write a cookery boo book k cautiously the publisher rejoined 1 I should advise you to do so 11 ll 1 I were confident of conr ability to write a good tone one I 1 well years went by and duding those thos years eyears cooks books and epicures epi cures and housewives in all of england were besieged for or recipes to be forwarded to the address of a certain lady the ladys own flattering letters or persuasive speech elicited from the cooks themselves the Im formation required or enlist the cooks masters and mistresses distresses mi stresses on her side and the result oilier of her exertions on an for or yeats years with equal resoluteness and good temper was the modern cookery in nil all its branches and was published in the author was miss acton who derived from her one great work an adequate income for or the remainder of her life |