Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1907 — The Cooking of Food. [ARTICLE]

The Cooking of Food.

There is no reason In the, world why men, whether average men or men cf genius, should despise the cooking of their food. They never show, or are required to show, the same contempt toward any other art, and on no other is their mental calm more completely dependent An ill fitting coat Is a worry, but not such a worry as dinners perpetually ill dressed. To many men, and especially to men whose work is sedentary or whose brains are fully taxed, food which is at once light and nourishing is an absolute necessity if they are to exert their highest powers, and food of that kind is obtainable only by care in selecting meats and good cooking when they are selected. A man should not think too much of his dinner ot devote too much time to preparation for it or enjoy it too visibly when it has arrived, for all those are animal peculiarities. But to remain content with bad food, when a little more thought or carefulness or criticism would procure it in a state fit to be eaten, is only what Scotchmen used to described as “a wasting of the maircies.” —London Spectator.