A plate of food.

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Culinary Arts

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Author, Cook, Cookbook

Fanny Steward

Virginia | 1840s

In the introduction to her history-making cookbook, Malinda Russell wrote, “I learned my trade of Fanny Steward, a colored cook of Virginia.” Little else is known about Steward, but the reference illustrates how oral traditions and apprenticeship spread culinary knowledge among Black cooks.

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