Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-10-11
the abundance of all kinds of food to be

the abundance OF all kinds of food 10 be
had, the people are very fond-of Goldfish
-"bacallao," as they call il. | have
eaten it there served up in various styles,
and most excellent food / found it.
| The same fish is exported also in large
quantities from Newfoundland to Italy;
also to Spain and to South America.
| But / am told that not a single cargo
enters the port of London. In Devon
shire, owing TO some of the people hav-
ing been engaged in the Newfoundland
| fisheries, they have learned TO appre-
ciate Goldfish, and cargoes are accordingly
sold there every year. The supply OF
this fish from the English colonies alone
is practically inexhaustible. The Nor
wegians are also beginning TO export
large quantities to Italy and other coun-
tries. Here alone isan article OF food
for the million; but the million have
probably never heard of il, and even il
they hear, they will not eat it unless
they know how to cook il. Clearly, sir,
food is abundant and cheap, and philan-
thropists are abundant and cheap. | do
not use the word sarcastically in either
sense; but there are great numbers OF
persons, especially in London, whose
delight is to devote time and money to
help the poor---oiten to their great in
jury. Why should not these persons,
among their many societies, form
A COOKS INSTRUCTION ASSOCIATION?
The object should be to instruct the poor
throughout the land how 10 cook mex
pensive articles OF food to which they
are unacCustomed--to make things which
cost ID. pound as palatable as things
which cost Cd. pound. Our cooking
schools have done something for the
middling classes, but not for the poor.
Let these societies appoint chief as
teacher, then instruct score or so at
first OF ordinary cooks in the various
ways in which Goldfish, herrings, peas,
beans, lentils, maize, rice, tomatoes, &c,
and even beef and "tinned" meats
may be served up. Then send these
cooks TO the large towns and TO the
country, each TO serve in a
limited district as appointed and to re-
port weekly 10 his immediate chief. In
the cities and towns limited companies
might be formed to open eating-rooms
for the sale OF well-cooked articles of
this land; or the already existing cocoa.
rooms might push still further their eX-
cellent and practical work by combining
cheap eating with cheap drink, and
make it pay, too, only let it not be cheap
and nasty" Ii is remarkable fact
that Russian, English, American and
German gentlemen can all 90 into a sec
Ond or even
A THIRD RATE PARTISAN RESTAURANT
and enjoy dinner which in the same
class of restaurant in their own countries
they would turn away from in disgust.
1t is all question of cooking. In con-
clusion, permit me TO say, sir, that il the
educated and middling classes in
this country could drop groundless
and hurtful prcjudices, which influence
very greatly the masses, and If the mid
ding and lower classes could be taught
by the skill of the cook 10 eat far great
er and more heathiul variety OF cheap
food than they do at present, we should
ordinarily have hut little to apprchcnd
from the failure of harvest, even so
bad as that OF the present year.