Abby Fisher

Abby Fisher (1831 – ?) was a former slave from South Carolina who earned her living as a pickle manufacturer in San Francisco and published the second known cookbook by a black woman in the United States, after Malinda Russell's Domestic Cook Book: Containing a Careful Selection of Useful Receipts for the Kitchen (1866). Abby Fisher's book, What Mrs. Fisher Knows About Old Southern Cooking, was published in 1881 by the Women's Cooperative Printing Office in San Francisco.

Abby Fisher

Abby Fisher (1831 – ?) was a former slave from South Carolina who earned her living as a pickle manufacturer in San Francisco and published the second known cookbook by a black woman in the United States, after Malinda Russell's Domestic Cook Book: Containing a Careful Selection of Useful Receipts for the Kitchen (1866). Abby Fisher's book, What Mrs. Fisher Knows About Old Southern Cooking, was published in 1881 by the Women's Cooperative Printing Office in San Francisco.