52 People Throughout History Who Were Not Given Credit For Their Contributions

It really doesn’t seem like such a big thing, but maybe that’s because of the way I like to cook. I’m less of a “precisely follow a recipe” type of cook and more of a “throw a bunch of things together and see what happens” type of cook. But I guess I don’t know what it was like before standardized measurements.

I am sensitive enough to put myself in the shoes of a “precisely follow a recipe” type of cook and understand that for them, standardized measurements must be nothing short of life-saving. Good old Fannie Farmer must have had one of those cooks in her life and taken pity on her.