
It carried original content from a stable of regular contributors, as well as extensive quotations and extracts from other periodicals and books. Founder Edward Cave’s “innovation was to create a monthly digest of news and commentary on any topic the educated public might be interested in, from commodity prices to Latin poetry. The first English periodical to be called a “magazine”.


The Gentleman’s Magazine – First Magazine, Magazines from 1700s Issues 1731-1907 London, UK: Edward Cave & others In 1914 the magazine’s name was changed to American Cookery. That vintage cookbook became an American classic and has been repeatedly re-published most recently in a Kindle edition in 2019. The school became world-famous following the 1896 publication of The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book by the school’s principal at the time, Fannie Merritt Farmer. In the 1880s the curriculum was broadened to include classes on nutrition, food chemistry and cookery for invalids. The Boston Cooking School was founded in 1879 by the Woman’s Educational Association of Boston to offer instruction in cooking to those who wished to earn their livelihood as cooks, or who would make practical use of such information in their families.
