The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-23
TO MAKE COOKING
A fine ART.
The NEW CRUSADE PREACHED BY
SOCIETY WOMEN IN SAN
FRANCISCO.
HAVE ENGAGED A LECTURER.
MRS EMMA P. EWING OF TILE
CHAUTAUQUA ScHooL-THE
CULINARY WAVE.

new crusade has begun in San Fran
cisco. 1t is preached at afternoon teas and
fashionable dinners, ladies discuss it in the
cars and the more ardent proselyters have
even been known to hold impromptu re-
vival meetings in the box of a theater
between the acts.
81 have talked to forty young ladies this
afternoon and am rather hoarse," said
Mrs. w. b. Harrington, one OF the prime
leaders in the movement, when she was
seen at her home on Sacramento street
yesterday at was not public meet
ing-just tea at a friends house; but the
girls wanted to hear about the cooking
school. You know we intend to elevate
cooking into one of the fine arts-make it
more skillful and more economical. 1t is
over a month since the California Scien-
tific Cooking School was incorporated, and
now we are beginning work in earnest.
We have engaged Mrs. Emma P. Ewing,
superintendent of the Chautauqua IN. Y }
Cooking School, and she will give her first
demonstration in Golden Gate Hall on the
8th of April"
Mrs. Horace Wilson, the secretary of the
new cooking school, then explained that
the organization hoped soon to have per-
manent headquarters with staff Of skill
full professors, able to teach every branch
OF the culinary art, from boiling potatoes
to the preparation of those complicated
creations that French names can alone
express. ''The schooi will be something
like the Boston and the New York cooking
schools" she said. ''Those students who
go through the prescribed course will be
given certificates of proficiency and sent
out into the world to cook, not as runners
of good material, but as artists"
cd
astically, ''think how much better that
would be for many girls than going into
stores or becoming dressmakers. A really
| skillful cook can make a good salary and
be blessing to humanity. But it is not
only the girls who have to earn their liv-
ings that we want to interest. The we'll
TODD women and the society women are
girl said to me, i should like to learn to-
day, but there is not room for me in our
| kitchen.
Then have an attachment made to it,
l answered. You ought to study cooking,
even if you are not required to do it, But
the girls are beginning to see for them
| selves how necessary the knowledge is, and
we expect that when Mrs. Ewing begins
her lectures they will turn out to be regular
culinary revival meetings"
| 1t seems that the great cooking wave
which has just reached San Francisco is
| sweeping round the world. 1t is supposed
to have begun in England, where at one
time the cooks were said to spoil more good
food than in any other country in the world,
but when the cooking wave sprang up the
very 'swagger" girls, who had never seen
the inside of kitchen in their lives, got
the craze to the despair of their own chefs
| Then the wave struck the East, which is
still permeated with it, and now, to Judge
from present indications, it looks as if the
ladies Of San Francisco were going to ex-
claim with one voice, ''Come, let US cook "
Mrs Harrington is the president of the
new organization. The following are the
lady patronesses:
Mrs. Sarah B. Cooper, Mrs Isidore Burns
Mrs. John Middleton, Mrs. John F. Swift, Mrs
Nelson, Mrs. Dr. Charlotte Brown, Mrs. Walter
C. Campbell, Mrs. Henry Halght, Mrs. F. H
Frank, Mrs. Frederick MacCrellish, Mrs. A. s
| Hallidie, Mrs. E. C. Cenget, Mrs Rosalie Kauf.
man, Miss Sarah D. Hamlin. Miss Anna P
Greer, Mrs. William H. Hardy Mrs. William
Gibbons, Mrs. John F. Merrill, Mrs. Horace
| Wilson, Mrs. T. Symmes, Mrs. William j. Dut
ton, Mrs. c. E; Green. Miss Jean Parker, Miss
A. E. Cleveland Mrs. Philip Weaver.