Hello Historic Food Friends,

I am in search of information regarding the late Miss Maria Parloa.
Any information leading to personal papers, books or other curious
facts would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Amy Sherwood


Here is a basic blur...

Maria Paloa was on of the most popular cooking teachers and cookbook
authors of the nineteenth century, was born in Massachusetts and
orphaned sometime in her youth. Parloa became one of the original
instructors at Boston Cooking School in March 1879. She was also a
highly succesful magazine journalist. Beginning in 1891, she wrote
regularly for the ladies'Home Journal, of which she was also part
owner. Ellen Richards, the "mother of home ec" and trained chemist who
was the first women let into MIT, credits Maria for encouraging her
work and curriculum development in home economics. This work led to
the creation of the American Home Economics Association.