Nellie Cashman
Irish-American/Canadian frontier entrepreneur and philanthropist
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Mary Hean Alexander, Sr
British wine and spirit merchant
Mary Anne Locke
Irish distiller and philanthropist
Barbe-Nicole Clicquot
Even though she lived her life amidst a series of bloody revolutions, Barbe-Nicole Clicquot Ponsardin spun gold from grapes.
Marguerite Patten
During the war in that role, via practical demonstrations, pamphlets and a BBC radio broadcast called Kitchen Front, she advised Britain on how to eat well and stay healthy using the rationed, limited and sometimes unpalatable foodstuffs available.
Mary Ann Gilbert
English allotment activist
Elizabeth David
British cookery writer
Elza Žiglevica
Member of the Latvian Women’s Auxiliary Corps, which provided food for the thousands of troops during WWI, who died bringing soldiers food
Hanna Wisnes
Under the pseudonym of “Hugo Schwarz” she wrote several novels, an excellent book for children, and some popular nursery rhymes. Her principal work, which she wrote under her own name, is the Textbook in Cookery (1845).
Gertrude Denman
Director of the Women’s Land Army during the Second World War, and President of the Women’s Institute from 1917 – 1946.