The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1891-11-21
An Apostle of Good Cooking.

An Apostle of Good Cooking.
A recent number Of the Housekeeper' $
Weekly, contained au excellent portrait
of Mrs. Emma P. Ewing, formerly of
this town, and late Professor of Domestic
Economy in the Iowa Agricultural Col
lege. Speaking of Mrs. Ewing the
weekly says Mrs Ewma P. Ewing was
born and raised on farm in the Empire
State, but since her marriage she has
lived in Washington, New York,
Chicago, and other cities, and her wide
experience in both country and city life
has made her cosmopolitan in character.
habits, and disposition Some twenty
five years ago she became impressed with
the belief that good food is an important
factor in the development of the indi
vidual, morally, mentally, and physically,
and since then the leading aim of her
life has been to improve the character of
the every day diet of the people by the
introduction of better and more ecouomi-
cal methods of cooking, and most of her
culinary studies and experiments have
been in that direction.
In 1880 Mrs. Ewing organized school
of cookery in Chicago, and conducted it
in a highly satisfactory manner for
three years, when she was appointed
Professor of Domestic Economy in the
Iowa Agricultural College. This position
she held until 1887, and then resigned to
accept a similar one, at a largely in
creased salary, in Purdue University,
Indiana
In the Fall of 1889 she resigned her
professorship at Purdue University. and
went to Kansas City to organize and
take charge of school of household
science; but before she had been there a
year the calls upon her from all sections
of the country for lectures and lessons
upon culinary topics become so incessant
aud urgent that she resolved to leave the
school. Placing it in other hands, she
devoted her entire time and energies to
itinerary work. preaching the gospel of
good cookery to larger and more appreci
alive audiences than she could possibly
reach in schools and colleges. Some idea
of the amount missionary work that
is being done by this culinary apostle
may be gathered from the fact that dur
ing the present year she has given nearly
two hundred lectures and lessons on the
preparation of food. and has completed
lOi giving Ut
fore the holidays
For several summers Mrs. Ewing has
been in charge of the School of Cookery
at the Chautauqua Assembly, and every
Summer she delivers series of lectures
there on household topics, which receive
much favorable newspaper notice and
attract wide attention. Her popularity
as lecturer and teacher is such that her
services are in constant demand, many
of her engagements being made year in
advance.
On all subjects pertaining TO household
science Mrs. Ewing is leading authority.
As a teacher of practical cookery she is
without peer, aud several of the most
prominent educators of the country, have
urged her appointment as Professor OF
Household Science in the Leland Star
ford, Jr., University, with salary suf
ticient to induce her to accept the posi-
tion, as soon as such department is
organized in that institution.
In addition to her other labors Mrs.
Ewing has written two books, -"Cook
ing and Castle Building" and Cookery
Manuals" and is now devoting her
leisure time to the preparation of text
book of cookery for schools and homes,
to be entitled THE A B G of Cookery"