The kitchen as a laboratorySourced
Cooking affordable meals became an experiment in 1890
Ellen Swallow Richards and Mary Hinman Abel established Boston’s New England Kitchen in 1890 to experiment with inexpensive, palatable, nutritious meals. Richards also worked on a kitchen exhibit applying chemistry to cooking at Chicago’s 1893 fair.
Everyday dinner could be a subject for scientific investigation.
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