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HISTORY This Week

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Women's Cooking Movement

Fanny Farmer had polio, which left her bedridden for months and sick for years. She eventually regains her ability to walk, but would have a limp for the rest of her life. Meanwhile, around her in boston, women were forming an entire cooking movement. It starts in the post civil war period with people like those upper class bostonians who wouldn't serve their friends a slice of cake.

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