Every week I find an interesting pamphlet or book from the SoFAB Culinary Research Center at Nunez Community College. This week the pamphlet contains directions for the food that America ate in 1796.Amelia Simmons wrote what is considered the first American cookbook, American Cookery, or the Art of Dressing Viands, Fish, Poultry and Vegetables and the Best Modes of Making Pastes, Puffs, ...