Eliza Leslie (1787–1858) wrote in several genres and published books of juvenile fiction as well as several books on domesticity, which includeDirections for Cookery, one of the most popular nineteenth-century American cookbooks. Etta M. Madden is a professor of English at Missouri State University. She is the coeditor, with Martha Finch, ofEating in Eden: Food and American Utopias(Nebraska 2006) and the author ofBodies of Life: Shaker Literature and Literacies.