The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-05-15
Education for the Kitchen.

The following extract taken from
the Popular Science is from the pen
of DIR. Youmans. 1t is worthy to be
read and followed by every mother
land young lady as well) in the
South. That kitchen literature, by
the by, the first one that should
and does engage our attention after
arising in the morning, then again
at noon and again at night-fall, is
left entirely TO ignorant, lazy,
thriftless negro women Is blotch
and reproach to the Wanted refine
ment and intelligence of our South
ern housewives. Eating and drink
ing certainly enter into one half the
enjoyment OF mortal life. The
proper preparation of food, sitting
aside its value for the sustenance of
life, certainly causes more happiness
and enjoyment to a refined taste,
than any other one thing in domes-
tic economy. But there is another
important item that cuts deep down
in our pockets and that item is
economy. How can we expect an
ignorant African to use economy
and good judgment in making the
most of a good thing. Their great
est aim seems to be to see how
much they can use and waste OF
the most valuable ingredients that
90 to make up good breakfast or
dinner. Without close supervis
ion they make botch of the rares
and most delicious viands, and by
their filthy habits bring reproach
upon the duties of the kitchen.
Young ladies you can remedy this
and, my word ford for it, the most
toothsome breakfast or dinner you
can prepare the more offers you will
receive from men worthy to be your
future husbands, besides the com
handing the universal respect, es
TEEN and praise of sensible men and
women. Read DR.. Youman's words
and this day begin the good work
redeemihg the kitchen from the re-
proach that ignorant, filthy women
have brought upon it;
"The next step must be to do
the same thing that the art of cook
cry and the friends OF genuine So
cial improvement may congratulate
themselves that the progress of ed
ucation is beginning to take effect
upon this important department of
domestic life. Cooking schools
are springing up in many places in
this country and England, and the
English are taking the lead in or
ganizing them as a part of their
national and common school sys-
TEN.
"Of the Importance, the impera-
tive necessity of this movement
there cannot be the slightest ques-
ton. Our kitchens, as is perfectly
notorious, are the fortified intrench-
ments of ignorance, prejudice, ira
tional habit, rule OF thumb and
mental vacuity: and the conse-
quence is that the Americans are liza
BILE to the reproach of suffering be-
yond any other people from waste
full, unpalatable, unhealthful and
monotonous cookery. Considering
our resources, and the Wanted ed
uNuSiOu anu ihNOAAi HCitNS VI AhiStA-
can women, this reproach is just.
Our kitchens are, in fact, almost
abandoned to the control of filthy,
lazy, stupid negroes, and raw SER
vile menials that pour in upon us
from various foreign countries.
And, what is worse. there is a gen
eral acquieseence in this state of
things, as if it were something fated,
and relief from it hopeless and I'm
possible. We profess to believe IN
the potency of education, and are
applying it to all other interests
and industries, excepting funda-
mental preparation and use of food |
TO sustain life, which involves more
of economy, enjoyments, spirits,
and the power of effective labor,
than any other subject that is stud
led in the schools. We abound in |
female seminaries, and in female
colleges and high SCHOOLS, supported |
by burdensome taxes, in which |
everything under heaven is studied |
except the practical art which is a
daily necessity in all the households |
of the land. DIR. II. c. Anderson,
Agricultural Editor of the Demo.
crat.