Fannie's Last Supper : Re-creating One Amazing Meal From Fannie Farmer's 1896 Cookbook
by Christopher Kimball

If the author's name sounds familiar, he is the host of America's Test Kitchen and the founder of Cook's Magazine now called Cook's Illustrated. He should probably just concentrate on these areas and forget about writing a book that could have been terrific and ended up being pretty dismal.
Christopher Kimball bought an 1859 Victorian town house in Boston back in the 1990s which he and his wife restored. He became interested in the neighborhood wondering what society was like in the nineteenth century and what sorts of foods were cooked. Kimball was especially intrigued with Fannie Farmer's Boston Cooking-School Cook Book that was published in 1896. He decides to re-create one of her menus and sets about testing, preparing and tasting a twelve-course Christmas dinner.
The subtitle of the book should be: "How I Completely Changed Fannie Farmer's Recipes To What I Like." Kimball is supposed to be venerating Fannie Farmer and instead he constantly bashes her and rewrites her recipes. Sometimes, he uses another chef's version. His ego also gets in the way. Another annoying thing is that in every chapter he writes some kind of historical tidbit which has nothing to do with anything. It's just filler. There are so many negatives with this book but I think I will just stop now.
Not recommended.