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Sarah Tyson Rorer was a newspaper columnist for magazines like Table Talk Magazine, Household New, Ladies Home Journal, and Good House Keeping.[1]


During the Great Depression, she depended on her sons and her students for financial support. [1]

White housewives from the upper and middle classes made up the majority of Rorer's readers and students.[2]


Sarah Tyson Rorer was the founder and principal of the Philadelphia Cooking School. [3]

Rorer was in charge of the Philadelphia Cooking School for 18 years and was able to reach 5,000 students through education during that time.[1]


She had completed courses at the Philadelphia Women's Medical College in the hopes of becoming a pharmacist at the time but was asked to take over as the club's teacher after the original instructor left.[4]

Sarah wrote and published 32 cookbooks under the pen name Sarah Tyson Heston Rorer.[5]

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  1. ^ a b c "Pennsylvania Center for the Book". www.pabook.libraries.psu.edu. Retrieved 2023-02-21.
  2. ^ Berndt, S. (2017). When science strikes the kitchen, it strikes home: The influence of Sarah Tyson Rorer in the Progressive Era kitchen, 1880-1915 [Thesis, University of Delaware].
  3. ^ McClure. "Rabelais Find Books on Food and Drinks". Rorer, Mrs. S.T Good Cooking. Retrieved 3/23/2023. {{cite web}}: Check |archive-url= value (help); Check date values in: |access-date= (help)
  4. ^ Groh, Joshua (2019-09-26). "Sarah Tyson Rorer, the pioneering dietician who moved to Colebrook". LebTown. Retrieved 2023-04-06.
  5. ^ "Rorer, Sarah Tyson Heston, 1849-1937 | The Online Books Page". onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu. Retrieved 2023-04-06.