Claim: Eliza Smith was one of the first cookbook author banned in colonial America , one of the most popular cookbook writers in the 18th century, who wrote The Compleat Housewife.
Evidence: Her one book, The Compleat Housewife, or, Accomplished Gentlewoman's Companion (London: J. Pemberton, 1727), went through 18 editions in Britain and in 1742 Smith became the first cookbook author published in colonial America.