Lucyna Ćwierczakiewiczowa, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Polish writer
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Place of Birth: Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland
About Lucyna Ćwierczakiewiczowa
- Lucyna Cwierczakiewiczowa (Polish pronunciation: [lu't?s?na t??f?ert??ak?evi't???va]) (1829—February 26, 1901) was a Polish writer, journalist and author of Polish cookery books. Lucyna Cwierczakiewiczowa was born in Warsaw, in the notable family of von Bachman.
- In 1858 she published her first book Jedyne praktyczne przepisy wszelkich zapasów spizarnianych oraz pieczenia ciast (The only practical compendium of recipes for all household stocks and pastry).
- Her work based both on her own culinary experience and on 17th century and 18th century memoirs by Polish szlachta.
- In 1860 she published another cookbook 365 obiadów za piec zlotych (365 dinners for 5 zlotys). In 1865 she started her own column in the Bluszcz weekly dealing with cuisine and fashion.
- She also collaborated with Kurier Warszawski, the most notable Warsaw-based newspaper of the time.
- In the 1870s she published several other guides to cooking, cleaning and flower arrangement.
- She also began to invite many prominent figures to her salon at 3 Królewska Street.
- Among her guests were the most influential writers and journalists of her time, including Boleslaw Prus. Her books made her the most popular author in Poland.
- Before 1924 her first cook book was issued 23 times, with more than 130 thousand copies sold worldwide, more than all the books by Henryk Sienkiewicz and Boleslaw Prus combined.
- Because of that, she became famous but was also mocked by many "serious" authors of the time.
- Her incredible weight (more than 130 kilograms) and haughtiness gained her a nickname of Cwierciakiewiczowa, an allusion to the Polish word cwierc meaning a quarter.
- This nickname became so popular that nowadays her name is frequently misspelt, even in serious publications. Since 1875 Cwierczakiewiczowa devoted herself to preparing a yearly publication for women named Koleda dla Gospodyn.
- It was a calendar filled with cooking recipes, women's suffrage propaganda and short novels and poems. She died in Warsaw and is buried in the Protestant Reformed Cemetery in Warsaw.
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