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Juliet Corson was born on February 14, 1842 in Roxbury, Massachusetts, United States, the daughter of Peter R. and Mary Ann (Henderson) Corson. When she was six years old her parents moved to New York City.
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"A GOOD COOK NEVER WASTES. It is her pride to make the most of everything in the shape of food entrusted to her care; and her pleasure to serve it in the most appetizing form. In no other way can she prove her excellence; for poor cooks are always wasteful and extravagant." "The day has passed for regarding cooking as a menial and vulgar labor; and those who give some thought to their daily food usually gain in vigor and cheerfulness. It is a truism that food is concentrated force. The manipulation of a motive power capable of invigorating both body and mind, is an occupation worthy to employ intelligence and skill." Those two previous quotes from this literary work, embraces the reasoning for writing such an excellent cookbook. Now days, this is a must read for anyone that loves and/or works cooking. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
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3 works of Juliet Corson American leader in cookery education (1841-1897) This ebook presents a collection of 3 works of Juliet Corson. A dynamic table of contents allows you to jump directly to the work selected. Table of Contents: A Course of Lectures on the Principles of Domestic Economy and Cookery The Cooking Manual of Practical Directions for Economical Every-Day Cookery Twenty-Five Cent Dinners for Families of Six
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Juliet Corson was born on February 14, 1842 in Roxbury, Massachusetts, United States, the daughter of Peter R. and Mary Ann (Henderson) Corson. When she was six years old her parents moved to New York City.
Juliet was too delicate to attend school regularly. She spent much of the next ten years in the home of her uncle, Dr. Alfred Upharn, in whose library she became well acquainted with Greek and Roman history and classical poetry.
Corson started to earn her own living when she was eighteen years old. After assisting in a teaching agency for a short time, she obtained the post of librarian in the Working Women’s Library in the New York University building. The pay was very small and she added to her income by writing poems and sketches for various newspapers.
She wrote a weekly article for the New York Leader and was employed to prepare the half-yearly index of the National Quarterly Review, where her work so pleased tile editor that she was given a place upon the staff of the publication. Her career as teacher of cooking grew out of her interest in the Free Training School for Women, which was opened in 1873 in her own home. At first only free instruction in sewing was given, but the institution proved so popular that it was soon moved to larger quarters and the curriculum enlarged to include bookkeeping, short-hand, and proof-reading.
Miss Corson saw the need for training in cooking also and set about fitting herself to teach that science. A chef was hired to demonstrate to the classes while she explained the theory. In 1876, she opened a school of her own in St. Mark’s Place, where she taught paying classes and also gave free instruction. Her lessons attracted much attention and in 1878 she was commissioned by John Eaton, United States Commissioner of Education, to prepare a circular for the Bureau of Education on the history and management of cooking schools in Europe and the United States.
The following year he arranged for her to lecture before the Training School for Nurses in Washington, D. C. , and later, under his patronage, she addressed groups in many other cities, making one trip to the Pacific coast. Probably the first lessons in cooking given in a public school on this continent were given by Miss Corson in a six weeks course to highschool girls in Montreal in 1880. There, for the first time, she did the cooking herself, the chef having failed to appear, and thereafter, finding that it appealed to her audience, she always did her own demonstrating.
While eager to increase the general knowledge of scientific cookery, her chief interest, always, was in teaching the women of the poorer classes how to prepare nourishing yet inexpensive food. With that end in view, she published, Fifteen-Cent Dinners for Workingmen's Families, and distributed 50, 000 copies free, chiefly at her own expense. Always on her lecture tours she gave free lessons to those who could not afford to pay for instruction. In her Cooking Manual (1877), which ran into several editions, she said she had endeavored to answer the question of the hour, “How well can we live if we are moderately poor?” (1886 edition), and in 1887 she published Family Living on $500 a Year. The material in this book was derived from a series of articles on “Sanitary Living” which appeared in Harper’s Bazar, 1882-1884.
Her writings received much favorable comment and her lectures were exceedingly popular. In 1880, the French government requested her to prepare a plan of work and list of books for use in the schools of France. For a few months in 1890-1891, she was editor of the Household Monthly. The last years of her life were devoted chiefly to literary work, most of it done in an invalid’s chair.
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