Elizabeth Grey (née Talbot) (1582–1651), Countess of Kent, was one of the first published woman recipe book writers in England, as well as a medical practitioner, philanthropist, and patron of literature and science. She was active at court, serving as Anne of Denmark’s first lady of the bedchamber, and well connected, especially within seventeenth-century English literary and scientific circles. She is remembered for a “cure-all” recipe, “The Countess of Kent’s Powder,” which remained popular for almost a century after her death.