Elizabeth Carter was an unusually good Queen of the Night.

'It did become very chefy,' says Elizabeth Carter, who has been the guide's consultant editor since 2006.

December 16 - Elizabeth Carter, poet, classicist, writer and translator (died 1806)

"If you have the money, you bring out the big guns," says Elizabeth Carter.

"Among foodies, that was a very exciting opening," Elizabeth Carter says.

In 1760, accompanied by Elizabeth Carter, she went to Bristol for her health.

She believed, similarly to her contemporary Elizabeth Carter, that intellectual rigour could be applied to cooking as in other areas of study.

He married Elizabeth Carter in 1840.

Elizabeth Carter and Constantia Grierson established themselves as classical scholars.

Text of translation by Elizabeth Carter, circa 1750, The Enchiridion.