Mary T. Swickard

Mary T. Swickard, born in 1909, is credited as the author or preparer of several mid-20th-century U.S. Department of Agriculture publications on home cooking and food use. Surviving catalog and archive records link her to pamphlets such as Apples in Appealing Ways and How to Use Whole and Nonfat Dry Milk, both issued through the USDA's Bureau of Human Nutrition and Home Economics.

Her published work suggests a practical specialty in consumer food guidance: recipes, kitchen methods, and everyday nutrition written for households rather than professional chefs. She also appears as a coauthor on a more technical USDA study about cooking methods and frozen storage, pointing to a background that connected home economics with food research.

Little biographical information beyond her birth year is easy to confirm from commonly available sources, but the record of her publications shows a writer closely associated with the USDA's mid-century effort to bring reliable, accessible cooking advice to American families.