Indiana food had what it took. The first-rate Italian dinner isn't spaghetti and meat balls. That's just a perversion which arises from the fact that our industrialized city Italian workers haven't been able to afford the abundant fruits and vegetables of their traditional diet. Tortillas and beans are not any nation's traditional food. They are only a remnant poor folks can still afford.
Good food is good business.
If, with the help of the advertisers and the educators, the story public health and medicine have to tell could be put into such language that the great body of American people could be persuaded, America's whole destiny would certainly be more dynamic. It is up to us to create a policy which will enable the housewife to find her way through a chaos of calories, salts and minerals, acids and alkalis and vitamins. It must be a policy which gives us a firm and acceptable basis for action. There are, to be sure, administrative relationships with these problems. But we find that there is not now the productive capacity necessary to produce the riboflavin necessary for such enrichment.