1. I would like to express my gratitude to John Thomson and Clayton Lewis for their assistance in preparing the illustrations for this article.
2. 1 Further investigation is needed and encouraged. Some attempts at addressing this topic have been made in the past and, fortunately, resources for further investigation are becoming increasingly available. In 1994 The American Institute of Wine and Food sponsored a conference in Monterey, California, on "Children and Food." Among the participants were Marion Cunningham, Stephanie Hersh, and Jan Longone. Many important questions were raised during this conference, but the audience was quite limited. A larger audience has been fortunate to have available Stephanie Hersh's Children's Cookery Books: Windows into Social and Economic Change. A Survey of Cookery Books Published in the United States Between1870 and 1996. Masters of Gastronomy Thesis, Boston University, 1997. Those planning further research in this area can anticipate new publications on the subject. Several children's cookbook collectors, both in the United States and abroad, are currently working on bibliographies.
3. 2 Emily Huntington, The Kitchen Garden; or, Object Lessons in Household Work (New York: Self-published, 1878); Emily Huntington, The Cooking Garden: A Systemized Course of Cooking for Pupils of All Ages (New York: J.W. Schermerhorn & Co. [1885]).
4. 3 See, for example, Mrs. J.B. Romer, Cooking and Sewing Songs and Recitations for Industrial and Mission Schools (New York: J.W. Schermerhorn & Company, 1889).
5. 4 Huntington, Kitchen Garden, 9.