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Lillie Pearl Hovermale Fearnow (August 19, 1881 – March 6, 1970) was an American canning entrepreneur known for creating Mrs. Fearnow's Brunswick Stew. [1] Connoisseur magazine named the stew one of the 10 worthiest canned treats in America in 1988.
Abby Fisher, sometimes spelled as Abbie Fisher (c. 1831 – 1915) was an American former slave from South Carolina who earned her living as a pickle manufacturer in San Francisco and published the second known cookbook by a Black woman in the United States, after Malinda Russell's Domestic Cook Book: Containing a Careful Selection of Useful Receipts for the Kitchen (1866).
What Mrs. Fisher Knows About Old Southern Cooking is a cookbook written in 1881 by former slave Abby Fisher, who had moved from Mobile, Alabama, to San Francisco.It was believed to be the first cookbook written by an African-American, before Malinda Russell's Domestic Cook Book: Containing a Careful Selection of Useful Receipts for the Kitchen (1866) was rediscovered.
A strong supporter of women's rights and suffrage, she founded the Women's Canning and Preserving Company in Chicago in 1890, which employed only women. In an address to her employees, Jones said that "This is a woman's industry. No man will vote our stock, transact our business, keep our books, pronounce on women's wages, supervise our factories.
The Settlement Cook Book is a complete cookbook and guide to running a household, compiled by Lizzie Black Kander, first published in 1901.The compendium of recipes, cooking techniques, nutrition information, serving procedures and other useful information was intended to support young women raising their families.
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A fourth put it best when they wrote, "Sheryl Lee Ralph is the most beautiful Mrs. Claus I've ever seen. Nice pull, Santa!" This was a needed win for the annual Thanksgiving event, as earlier in ...
On July 12, 1904, 18,000 union members in Chicago walked off the job to win higher wages. They were joined by most of the other unions in the city. The union had actually reached an agreement on an 18.5-cent-an-hour minimum wage for unskilled workers on July 6, but the Employers' Association of Chicago broke an agreement to not discriminate ...