National School of Cookery

MAB became the first Lady Superintendent of the new National School of Cookery , temporarily housed in a series of sheds owned by the institution which later became the Natural History Museum .

MAB 's First Lessons in the Principles of Cooking, arranged in three parts, a textbook for the National School of Cookery , was not a recipe book, but an examination of the science of food.

She had found in New Zealand that a cookery-book is after all but a broken reed to lean on in a real emergency; it starts by assuming that its unhappy student possesses a knowledge of...