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Fannie's Last Supper: Re-creating One Amazing Meal From Fannie Farmer's 1896 Cookbook (2010)

by Chris Kimball(Favorite Author)

3.27 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

1401323227 (ISBN13: 9781401323226)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Hachette Books

review 1: Also finished off Christopher Kimball's Fannie's Last Supper, a tribute to Victorian era cooking that involved two years of cooking research capped off by a 12-course feast for a select group of invited guests from all over. He asks towards the end, "Was this just a bunch of overprivileged gourmands enjoying ridiculous overconsumption while the rest of the country was stuck in the worst economic recession since the Great Depression?"The answer is both yes and no. Yes, it overindulgent and an undertaking (that included buying an old Victorian brownstone in Boston and refurbishing it to fit the project) that was beyond the imaginings of most folk. At the same time, it was not "just" that, who is to say that the wealthy are not allowed to have hobbies such as cooking and writ... moreing about it - certainly not me. Kimball earned his wealth and how he chooses to spend it, and his leisure and social time, is certainly up to him.The book, however, suffered from being, well, boring. For the most part it just meandered, with far too many irrelevant tangents, and far too many "we decided not to do things the way they were originally done because we didn't like the results" - in the end yielding a dinner that was part Victorian and part Modern, where it suited.
review 2: Mmmm...3.5, really. If you like Cook's Illustrated, I think you'll at least find this interesting enough to read. As many others have said, though, I'm not sure that the title is really fair. He didn't really recreate a meal from the cookbook, but brought them all up-to-date for modern tastes. Still, I think Christopher Kimball and found the book reasonably enjoyable, as long as I forgot about the title. less

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