Chambers was interested in educating the general public about dietetics. He contributed a 45-page appendix The principles of diet in health and disease to the 1879 American edition, edited by Eliza Ann Youmans, of a 1877 cookbook by Rose Owen Cole, (pages xv+382 pages, with a preface by Rose Owen Cole, an additional preface by Elizabeth A. Yeomans, and an appendix 'The principles of diet in health and disease (pp. 327–371) by Thomas K. Chambers, M.D. — The original version of the book was published in 1877 in London under the title The Official Handbook of the National Training School for Cookery with a 2-page preface by Cole and with neither the appendix by Yeomans nor the appendix by Chambers. See The National Training School Of Cookery.)
