America's Most Famous Cook—A Cripple
Story★★★★Nearly every bride once received a copy of America’s famous cookbook entitled Fanny Farmer’s. How many women, however, know that these culinary secrets were revealed by a cripple?
Just through high school at seventeen, Fanny Farmer was stricken with infantile paralysis which maimed her for life. Until she was twenty-seven years of age, Fanny was confined to her bed or when able, barely limped and lurched about.
Proud of spirit, and determined to overcome her physical disaster, Fanny Farmer mastered the science of cooking. She acquired such skill that gradually the best women of Boston attended her lectures on the art of preparing good food. She founded a cooking school. Then she wrote a 700 page cookbook of mouth-watering recipes.
Paralysis struck her a second time, but undaunted, Fanny Farmer lectured from her wheelchair. Her reward has been the purchase of two million copies of her book and the knowledge that she has made many a dinner table beautiful and blessed by her choice suggestions. She turned her dreadful handicap into human service and made homes in America happier.
The point
Fanny Farmer overcame paralysis through determination and mastered cooking, blessing millions through her cookbook.