Lessons in Cookery. Hand-Book of the National Training School for Cookery (South Kensington, London). To Which is Added the Principles of Diet in Health and Diseases
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1878. First American Edition. Octavo, xv, 382, [10] pages, publisher's original gilt-lettered and decorated orange cloth covered boards. Lessons in Cookery: Hand-Book of the National Training School for Cookery is an important Victorian cookery-school manual, issued in the American edition by D. Appleton & Co. in 1878 and edited by Eliza A. Youmans, with an added section on The Principles of Diet in Health and Disease by Thomas K. Chambers, M.D. Rather than a simple household receipt book, it reflects the late-19th-century movement to make cookery a formal, teachable domestic science, presenting practical lessons from the National Training School for Cookery at South Kensington, London. The volume combines instruction in everyday cooking with broader concerns of household management, nutrition, dietetics, and invalid cookery, making it a useful and historically interesting work for collectors of Victorian cookery, domestic science, women’s education, and the history of food and health.
Provenance: From the library of Dr. William Woys Weaver, acclaimed American food historian and author, acquired directly from his historic home, Roughwood, in Chester County, Pennsylvania. Some slight rubbing and wear, minor discoloration, corners bruised, else in very good + condition. Item #297
Price: $200.00