A Course of Lectures on the Principles of Domestic Economy and Cookery is a comprehensive and insightful guide originally delivered as a series of lectures by Juliet Corson, a renowned authority on household management and cookery in the late 19th century. This book is designed to educate readers—particularly women—on the essential principles of domestic economy, emphasizing the importance …
Self published by the founder of the New York Cooking School, this forty-page leaflet was designed to educate new immigrant families with low incomes about preparing good, healthy meals. As the industrial revolution gathered steam and reformers focused on living conditions of the poor and disadvantaged, economical themes began to appear in cookbooks, and Corson's pamphlet was extremely popula…