Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-21
ECONOMY IN FOOL
Edward Atkinson's Efforts at Ref
in the Cooking System.
HIS. STOVE AND DINNER Pl
Dynamite May Be Made to Do the Ted
Work Of the Engrayer.
wIPNG THE PEN ON THE POT
WRITTEN FOR THE DIsPArcH.l


The question of cooking reform was ia
up actively in England q few years ago,
large number of schools were establis
where the upper and middle classeS1
able to lean at the same time how to
cooked food more toothsome and more
gestible. The admirable results which
accrued to the health and well being Of
classes has drawn attention to the poss-
ity of extending its benefits to the labo.
section of the community.
A vigorous movement has been set on
in this country with 8 view of affording
poorer classes the means by which they
live better and at smaller cost on a N
less quantity of food than has her
fore been considered necessary for t,
proper sustenance. This movement
been placed on sound and scientific be
and is now being diligently prosecuted
Mr.. Edward Atkinson, the well-known
tistician and economist, of Boston.
method proposed by Mr.. Atkinson of proI
ing popular knowledge of the principle
good and economical cookery is to estab
schools where these principles can
taught, and kitchens where food can
cooked on large scale, and made avail
from its reduced cost for the people.
work is now rapidly progressing in m
cities, and among the latest to fall into
is New York, where a philanthropist
subscribed Sc, 900 for the establishment
kitchen on the Eastside where women
learn the art of economy of cooking.
Furthermore, Mr.. Atkinson has desig
q special stove, which he calls
"Aladdin," and o "workman's pail,
which food can be cooked according to
system which he has proved by long
pertinent and practical working to be
ductive of such salutary results. He S;
'It is not true that the Lord sent the
and the devil sent the cook; the true vers
of the case is that the Lord sent the
and the devil sent the stove;" add
'FWhat more internal place of dwelling
you find than a small kitchen containin
big stove working away under a str
draft in midsummer"
1t has been proved beyond question
by the use of these improved appliaT
complete and adequate nutrition can
supplied to the average working man
woman at a cost not exceeding 81 W
for the food material and the fuel to COO
with. The significance of such econom.
brought out strinkingly by the fact tina
the present day the mere cost of mater
for food, even in this land of huge abu
ance, absorbs one-half the income of N
than nine-tenths of the people. In
Aladdin stove so pounds of bread, N
and vegetables can be cooked in the n
perfect and nutritious manner "
two pints or two pounds, or little l.
of kerosene oil burned in an ordin
Rochester lamp. AS the cost of this st
is at present not less than S25, price VIII
practically excludes it from many s.
families as it was especially designed
benefit, Mr.. Atkinson proposes that din
rooms be built and stted up in each la
factory with range or stove large eno1
to cook for 100 people. Each man or won
who applies for the right to make use of
room may then bring two boxes of food
terial to be cooked and one box of coffee
cocoa. These boxes may be brought
wire frame, which can be set in the st,
on reaching the mill. All that is then nee
sary is to light the gas under the stove, {
at IL O'Clock hot appetizing and nutriti
dinner will be ready. A nominal cha
per head per month might be made to g
fair percentage on the investment.
The cost of the cooking pail, by means
which a workman can have his dinner b
good and nourishing, instead of cold q
uninviting, is ST, and, like the Aladt
stove, it is made by firm in BroOkln
Mass, which shares with Mr.. Atkinson
profits on all sales. The latter's share
these profits is devoted, by agreement,
building kitchens and to other charital
objects, the ultimate aim of which is
teach economy. 1t is certainly time Il
such lessons should be taught throughC
the land, when the fact is established Il
25 cents worth of food day is much mt
than sufficient for the heartiest appeti
and that the workingman who now spen
81 and 81 so a week for his food can ha
Just as much for 81, and have it, moreoV
in comfort and enjoyment.