sentences:  In 1957, Mary Tolford Wilson wrote "The First American Cookbook," an essay that served as the introduction to the facsimile of the first edition of "American Cookery" (Harttford, 1796).This edition was originally published by Oxford University Press in 1958, and then reissued by Dover Publications in 1984.In 1982, Gail Weesner edited and annotated a typographically reset edition with an introduction and an extensive number of individual annotations for recipes in which usage or content needed clarification.