Florence A. George

Florence Annie George (1864 – 3 July 1918) was an English schoolteacher and cookbook writer. Trained at the National Training School of Cookery, she served from 1894 as cookery mistress at King Edward VI High School for Girls in Birmingham. She wrote four books: King Edward's Cookery Book (1901), Vegetarian Cookery (1908), Economical Dishes for Wartime (1916), and the posthumous A Manual of Cookery (1920).

George treated cookery as a practical branch of science in girls' education and adapted her texts to contemporary needs. Vegetarian Cookery set out meat-free and reduced-meat dishes, while Economical Dishes for Wartime revised recipes for rationing conditions during the First World War. Her vegetarian recipes included early nut cutlets later regarded as precursors of the nut roast. Her work has since been noted in histories of vegetarianism and modern compilations that reproduce or discuss her recipes.