Abby Fisher
Abby Fisher | |
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| Born | Abby Clifton c. 1831 Orangeburg, South Carolina, U.S. |
| Died | Between 1910 and 1920 |
| Other names | Abbie Fisher |
| Occupation(s) | Cook, author |
| Known for | Writing the second cookbook penned by an African-American woman in the U.S. |
| Notable work | What Mrs. Fisher Knows About Old Southern Cooking (1881) |
Abby Fisher, sometimes spelled as Abbie Fisher (c. 1831 – 1915) was an American 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.