Heart to Hearth Cookery

Karen Hess 2004 Amelia Award

  If you are interested in food history and have not read Martha Washington’s Book of Cookery, it should be a must read.  As I opened my well-loved book to do some research, I paused in remembrance at the signature of Karen Hess, October 30, 1993.  Karen was my idol, friend and mentor.  The book includes a transciption by Karen of a seventeenth century manuscript that was in Martha Washington’s “keeping” at the time of her marriage to Daniel Custis.  As the book plate states, Karen wrote historical notes and copious annotations. 

The picture shows Karen and myself in 2004 when she was honored by the Culinary Historians of New York with the first ever Amelia award.  Karen was as colorful as the picture portrays her.

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My next scheduled workshop is Chocolate on February 4th, 2012.