Fisher, Abby
c.1831-1915 · Contribution: 1881
Household & Domestic Inventions
Author of a celebrated 1881 Southern cooking cookbook; built a successful pickle and preserves manufacturing business
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Quick facts
- Born
- c.1831-1915
- Active since
- 1881
- Category
- Household & Domestic Inventions
Impact on the world
Fisher preserved Southern Black culinary knowledge in print at a time when almost no such record by a Black woman existed, dictating an entire cookbook she could not physically write.
Sources
- Johns Hopkins Hub
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