Publisher's Synopsis
Corson (1841-97) was a leader in cookery education in the latter half of the 19th century in the United States. From 1872 she devoted herself to study and experiments on healthful and economical cookery and dietetics, and in 1876 she founded the New York School of Cookery and was its superintendent until 1883 when she was obliged to close it due to her failing health. In 1877 she wrote and distributed free of charge to working people earning $1.50 or less a day a 33-page booklet entitled 'Fifteen Cent Dinners for Families of Six' to help the poor learn to cook on tight budgets. She contributed a weekly column in the New York Times for five years from 1875-80, wrote many other newspaper articles and pamphlets, and was the author of a number of cookery books, including this title first published in 1877.
