"Fannie's Last Supper" reveals the origins of American cooking and explores how the culinary expert Fannie Farmer sowed the seeds of the modern food revolution.
"Fannie's Last Supper" also reaches back into the history of cookware, cooking and the food industry to understand how Victorians shopped, cooked, ate and entertained.
The documentary also details the culinary sleuthing and testing necessary to bring back to life the original Fannie Farmer recipes and cooking methods. The test cooks uncover the secrets of making homemade jellies, baking a Mandarin cake, larding venison, roasting geese and making classic lobster a l'Americaine.
View photo galleries of the food, the party and the kitchen.
