> I'm looking for any information about 19th century British Cooking
> Schools--specifically the South Kensington Cooking School and the
> Culinary College in Edinburgh, both of which were operational at
> least during the 1870s.

It became Queen Margaret College and then Queen Margaret University.

Tom Begg
_The Excellent Women: the origins and history of
Queen Marg aret College, Edinburgh 1875 to 1994_
John Donald Publishers
Edinburgh 1994
ISBN 0 85976404 4 (paperback)

But be warned that Begg was on the QM staff and the book suffers
from institutional boosterism.

Marion here went to it, just before the Atholl Crescent building
closed. She can tell you a few stories about student life in a
Victorian timewarp if you phone...

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