Nell b nichols biography of william

We continue our vintage cookbook strand with an American classic, Farm Journal’s Country Cookbook by Nell B.

Nichols, first published in Nell was born in rural Kansas before the turn of the last century. She and her family soon moved to Dodge City, where Nell grew up at the sunset of the era of cowboys, gunslingers and the Santa Fe Trail.

She learned to cook at her mother’s knee, on a wood stove with ingredients mostly grown or raised on the family farm.

The version of Farm Journal’s Country Cookbook now available on ckbk is from It is a collection of recipes from that Nell gathered first-hand from cooks and kitchens across the United States.

The recipes are a revealing snapshot of America’s cooking heritage, chronicling the rapid changes that were taking place at the time in food preferences, technology and availability of ingredients.

It’s an edible history of American food, and in this festive se