Lucy Grace Allen

Who is Lucy Grace Allen?

Lucy Grace Allen was a cookery teacher and author. She studied and then taught at Mrs Farmer's School of Cookery in Boston, Massachusetts. In 1915, together with Minnie S. Turner, Allen co-founded the Boston School of Cookery at 48a Gloucester Street, becoming the new school's director. In 1926 she was described as having lived her whole life in New England.

An excerpt from her influential Table Service, once described as "a clear, concise and yet comprehensive exposition of the waitress' duties", was printed in the anthropological anthology Rules and Meanings.