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Subject: Re: Tablespoons (was: degrees Celsius)
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On Mon, 24 Mar 1997 15:51:57 -0800, John Francis Stracke
<francis@netscape.com> wrote:

>From what I hear from cooking friends, the "teaspoon/tablespoon/cup"
>spectrum is fairly recent, and of US origin.  Around the turn of the
>century (19th/20th, not 20th/21st ;-), an American cookbook writer set
>out to standardize the measurements in the recipes she was publishing. 

She was Fannie Farmer (honest).
