Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 62, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 November 1918 — ONE-MINUTE FOOD TALKS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

ONE-MINUTE FOOD TALKS

By Don Herold

No great merchant, with purchasing agents in all corners of the globe, Is any more of a “man of the world,” these days than the humblest American housewife in her kitchen. Once the kitchen was secluded. Now it is next door to New York, to Paris, to London. Great steamers pass. Railroad trains toot by. The kitchen is a part of the great scheme x>f things. The kitchen is now international. Keeping house has been exalted to a profession. The purchase and preparation of food, these days, demands thought and training—and is worthy of it. Things happening in Europe have their influence on every one of the three meals in every American home. -Things happening in American kitchens have their influence in Europe. This has always been true, to a lesser degree, but it has taken a war to make us see it. It has taken a

war to “put the kitchen on the map" —of the world. Mothers are now seeing to it that their daughters shall learn how to market and cook with intelligence and economy. A Simmons College girl said, the other day: “During the summer I was employed by a private family to teach the four daughters, aged thirteen, fifteen, seventeen and eighteen, housekeeping, with emphasis on cookery. The meals were prepared entirely by the girls, there being no cook. We tried to keep strictly to the requests of the food administration.” The efTect of war-time conservation on American housekeeping will he felt for at least a generation to come. You can’t eat a cookie or a sardine, nowadays, or cook an apple pie, and escape the international consequences. The war, at last, has given us the correct perspective bn food and kitchens and housekeeping.

THE FRYING OF AN EGG IS HEARD ROUND THE WORLD.