Boston Cooking School

As one of the original instructors at the Boston Cooking School, Maria Parloa inspired a generation of chefs with her scientific method of cooking. Her recipes reflect an interest in the chemistry of food. Instruction in the sciences was a key part of her curriculum. Originally published in 1880, The Appledore Cook Book aimed to provide a practical cookbook for ""young housekeepers"" with author-tested recipes that use easier methods and less expensive ingredients than those in other books.

Jennie C. Benedict's The Blue Ribbon Cook Book represents the very best in the tradition of southern regional cooking.

He presided over Virginia’s great political barbeques for the last half of the nineteenth century, taught the young Prince of Wales to crave mint juleps in 1859, catered to Virginia’s mountain spas, and fed two generations of Richmond epicures with terrapin and turkey.