Alberta M. (Alberta Moorhouse) Goudiss

Alberta Moorhouse Goudiss was an American culinary school director and an editor of The Forecast. Surviving catalog and collection records connect her most clearly with food writing and household guidance in the early 1900s.

She is best known today as the co-author, with Charles Houston Goudiss, of Foods That Will Win the War and How to Cook Them, published in 1918. The book reflects the food-saving and meal-planning concerns of World War I, offering practical advice for home cooks trying to use ingredients carefully and avoid waste.

Published sources that are easy to confirm online are quite limited, so many details of her personal life remain unclear in the records I found. Even so, the available evidence shows her as part of an important tradition of American domestic and nutrition writing that aimed to help families cook sensibly in changing times.