Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 October 1901 — Can the Kitchen be Abolished? [ARTICLE]

Can the Kitchen be Abolished?

In offering solutions of the servant girl problem it is a singular fact that Bcafcely anyone thinks of suggesting the plan of elevating cookery to a Bclence that is worthy the attention and study of the brightest American women. The solutions that are now being proffered all tend toward one end, the complete abolishment of the kitchen as an adjunct of the modern home. One of these kitchen exterminators recently outlined his plan In the New York Sun and commended It to the consideration of American housekeepers. Hls plan is to incorporate a company with sufficient capital to establish in various districts of a city large kitchens under the management of competent chefs, with a properly organized force of assistants and helpers. These various district kitchens are to be controlled from a central station and are to prepare and distribute meals at the .residences of subscribers, the meals to be served in properly constructed, self-heating receptacles,. the necessary dishes to be sent with the food, and, if desired, an assistant to arrange the table, or a waiter to serve the meal.