September 24, 1902. A new cooking school is set to open at Boston's 30 Huntington Avenue. The rooms will soon be filled with trainee cooks, who will watch in awe as the school's namesake and principal, Fannie Farmer, lectures on everything from boning meats to baking the perfect reception rolls. Farmer is an innovative cook, and a pioneer in a thriving women's culinary movement known as "domestic science." But her school stands at a crossroads of that very movement and begs the question, what is the purpose of food? Who was Fannie Farmer, "the mother of level measurements"? And how did she shape the way we cook and eat today? [Podcast 27:00]

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cooking

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fannie farmer, "the mother of level measurements", exact measuring of ingredients, women's culinary movement known as "domestic science", cooking / cuisine, si units of measurement

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• Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
• The intended use for this resource is Instructional