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"American Cookery" by Amelia Simmons — First known cookbook written by an American Dday they provided additional evidence ofUpdated on November 27, 2025: This book has been sold. Full title: American Cookery or The Art of Dressing Viands, Fish, Poultry & Vegetables and the Best Modes of Making Pastes by Angela Simmons. Published by Westvaco, the West Virginia Paper Company in 1963. 106pp. The first known cookbook written by an American, published in Hartford, Connecticut, and was first published in 1796. Until then, the cookbooks printed and used in the Thirteen Colonies