Fannie Farmer

I mentioned this new book from Chris Kimball of America's Test Kitchen fame, Fannie Farmer's Last Supper, not that long ago. I've since seen Mr. Kimball talk about his adventures in researching the Victorian-era twelve-course meal and the final, grand adventure in bringing the whole thing together, including the severe fire hazard of a wood-burning stove at maximum heat in an old, wood-frame house. And I have read the book, which is a fun, informative, and quick read. If you are at all interested in how people prepared and ate food in the 19th and early 20th century, then this book is for you. My only gripe is that many of the recipes are not reproduced in the book, but are kept on the website. That's fine for now, though it means that the whole experience is not available in one source (unless you print out the recipes and fold them for storage in the book), but in the future when the website is defunct? The book no doubt will survive long after the website -- or am I just a luddite tilting at windmills?