Sarah tyson rorer biography

Sarah Tyson Rorer (18 October 1849 – 27 December 1937) was an American food writer and pioneer in the field of domestic science.

Rorer has been described as the first American dietitian.^[1][2][3]

Biography

She was born in Richboro, Pennsylvania, the daughter of Charles Tyson Heston, a pharmacist, and Elizabeth Sagers.^[4] Rorer received her early education in East Aurora, New York, and was educated in cooking at the New Century Club in Philadelphia.

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.^[5] After she completed school, she herself became a teacher of cooking and dietetics at the New Century Club.^[6]

In 1884, she founded the Philadelphia School of Cookery.

Rorer was in charge of the Philadelphia Cooking School for 18 years and was able