Boston Cooking School

Today i get a assigment to find main idea from a passage of the book. I get book from Los Angeles rack, the tittle of the of is The Oxford Companion To American Food and Drink, edited by Andrew F. Smith. The passage from page 59 and the tittle is Boston Cooking School.

Boston Cooking School
The Boston Cooking Schooll began as charitable endeavor by the Women's Educational Association to teach cooking to poor women. Begun with seven students, it widened its scope to include homemakers, and by 1882 there were nearly four hundred students.

Volunteer women ran the school, but the beginning teaching staff consisted of experienced teachers. Joanna Sweeny, who had given cooking classes in Boston, and Mario Parloa a noted cooking authority and author, were the first two teachers. They trained Mary Lincoln, who then became another teacher. She become another teacher. She became  well known for her Mrs. Lincoln Boston Cook Book, written as a text book for her classes. Fannie Farmer, who ebecame principal in 1894, was first a pupil and then an assistant principal.

The school offered a First Course (Plain Cooking), a Second Course (Richer Cooking), and a Third Course (Fancy Cooking), as well as twelve lesson for nurse. The school also became well known for its sickroom cookery classes and taught Harvard Medical School students for many years.

The school had considerable influance on cooking through these classes; it also trained teachers of cooking. Parloa taught the first normal course for prospective teachers. The school recieved many invitations for gruaduates of its training course to open cooking schools in other cities.

The Boston School Magazine spread ideas about cooking to the general public. Fannie Farmer's The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book became a very popular, going through several revisions and reprintings.


MIND IDEAS

To find mind idea of the passage,you need to know what it its.
The main idea is the most important thing the paragraph says about the topic. The topic is what a pragraph is all about.

Now i will show you main idea of the passage above.

Main idea of first paragraph : The Boston Cooking Schooll began as charitable endeavor by the Women's Educational Association to teach cooking to poor women.

Second paragraph : 
Volunteer women ran the school, but the beginning teaching staff consisted of experienced teachers.

Third paragraph :
The school offered a First Course (Plain Cooking), a Second Course (Richer Cooking), and a Third Course (Fancy Cooking), as well as twelve lesson for nurse. 

Fourth paragraph :
The school had considerable influance on cooking through these classes; it also trained teachers of cooking

Fifth paragraph :
The Boston School Magazine spread ideas about cooking to the general public.

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