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- Aug 27, 2011
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- Central Massachusetts
"Fannie was attending Medford (Mass.) High School when she contracted polio and was confined to her bed for years. While she slowly recovered, she took up cooking and turned her family’s home into a boardinghouse.
At 31, she entered the Boston Cooking School. After she graduated a year later she was asked to stay on as assistant principal. Five years later she was running the school and publishing the Boston Cooking-School Cookbook
By her own admission, she was more of a promoter and a businesswoman than a great cook."
An excellent account of the life of a remarkable woman from the New England Historical Society:
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