Ocupation: Poet
Life: April 17, 1799 - February 13, 1859
Birthday: April 17
Death: February 13
It is not, in fact, cookery books that we need half so much as cooks really trained to a knowledge of their duties.
source: Eliza Acton (1860). “Modern Cookery, for Private Families: Reduced to a System of Easy Practice, in a Series of Carefully Tested Receipts, in which the Principles of Baron Liebig and Other Eminent Writers Have Been as Much as Possible Applied and Explained”, p.11
topic: Book, Needs, Half, Cookery Books