Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 68, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 April 1917 — THE FOOD QUESTION. [ARTICLE]

THE FOOD QUESTION.

The following timely suggestions with reference to the food question and the conservation of the available supply, are made by the information bureau of the U. S. Dept, of Agriculture : Don’t be finicky. Be will ing to try new foods. Learn to know all the good things, not a few only. People too easily get into food ruts; insist on eating only the feed they are used to, and refuse to .give a fair trial to others. This causes undue demand for certain staples with resulting scarcity or 'high prices when crops are short. At the same time other valuable foods may be cheap and available. A striking instance of this is failure fully to appreciate rice, a valuable source of starch, when potatoes are scarce and high. Another example is refused in certain section to use anything wheat as a 'breadstuff, when corn, a valuable cereal widely used elsewhere as a breadstuff, is plentiful and relatively cheap. Learn how to cook all kinds of staple food® and to serve them in a variety of ways. Simple dishes well prepared are better than expensive foods badly cooked. Most individual prejudice again sr widely popular foods are either imaginary or baseless. Try to like every simple food; give it a fair trial.