Twenty-Five Cent Dinners for Families of Six (Dodo Press) - Softcover

Juliet Corson (1842-1897) was an American author and teacher of cookery. She was the secretary of the New York free training-school for women from 1872 until 1873. In 1876 she founded the New York Cooking School, open to rich and poor, charging tuition on a sliding scale so that no one would be turned away. Her works include: Fifteen-Cent Dinners for Workingmen's Families (1877), The Cooking Manual (1878), A Text-Book for Cooking Schools (1878), Twenty-Five Cent Dinners for Families of Six (1879), Meals for the Million (1882), New Family Cook-Book (1885), Local American Cookery (1885), Practical American Cookery (1886), Diet for Invalids and Children (1886), Family Living on $500 a Year (1886) and A Course of Lectures on the Principles of Domestic Economy and Cookery (1887).