Original: Around the same time the American cook Fannie Farmer (Fannie Merritt Farmer 1857 - 1915) was born and having devoted herself to cooking published in 1896 her famous work 'The Boston Cooking School Cookbook' which contained some 1849 recipes.
Simplified: Around that same time the American cook Fannie Farmer (Fannie Merritt Farmer 1857 - 1915) devoted herself to cooking. She published the book 'The Boston Cooking School Cookbook' in 1896 which had 1849 recipes.