The Young House-Keeper: or Thoughts on Food and Cookery. Fifth Stereotype Edition.
Boston: George W. Light, 3 Cornhill, 1842. Sextidecimo, 424 pages. Fifth stereotype edition. Alcott was the first president of the American Vegetarian Society and the founder of the American Physiological Society in 1837, the world's first physiological society. Much of this work is dedicated to vegetables, grains and fruits, with additional chapters on keeping accounts and journals, the general purposes of house-keeping, and an interesting exploration into "Cooking as It.....