Anna Wecker wrote the first cookbook written by a woman to be published in German.  She lived in Nuremburg, Germany and Basel, Switzerland.  The recipes and supporting text reveal a great deal about early modern domestic life, nutrition, and the role of household cooks in maintaining and promoting health. The widow of first a town clerk and then a physician, Wecker’s recipes demonstrate the usefulness of food as medicine and the importance of nutrition for the ill, the frail, pregnant women, and new mothers.