New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-08-08
AGAIN THE COOKING SCHOOL
UNEXPECTED INTEREST AROUSED oA
THE ARTICLE IN LAST Sun ,
DAYS TRIBUNE.


DAYS TRIBUNE.
ANXIOUS INQUIRIES ON THE VITAL POINTS DE
cUssED THEREIN COMPEL AN APPEAL TO
AUTHORITATIVE soURcEs-LErTER FROM
HER WHO PREsIDEs OVER THE DEs-
TIMES OF THE EXCLUSIVE BEL
vIDERE AT LARCHMoNT
HOME OF YAcHTsMEN.
ATHLETES AND
GouRMETs.
In publishing last Sunday a sketch OF the good
work laid out and partly accomplished by the
cooking schools OF New-England the writer had
no thought but to arouse passing interest among
Tribune readers with perhaps ultimate gain
for them In the sum OF practical knowledge. The
information therein conveyed. however. seems to
have been OF sufficient general utility to excite
desire for more the subjoined correspondence
will show and. not being dplomaed professor Of
detetics. it became necessary for the writer call
skilled technical talent to the rescue that the SEEK
ers after the light In dark places might not feel
that their interest had been excited only to be
neglected when the pressure of ordinary. everyday
news matter made space too precious to be de-
voted to so trinng matter the public health.
Tariffs may come and tariffs may co. money
standards may remain single become double.
politics. wars floods or fires may sweep the earth:
still the evermost important question occurs three
times daily in each household. and to such the fol-
lowing questions and answers are respectfully SUBJ
mitted:
"Larchmont. y. Y. August g. 1897.
THE NewYork Tribune.
Cooking Schools in last Sundays Tribune. and
feeling sure that the New Era schools OF which
than any with which i am familiar. venture to
ask for more explicit Information concerning the
n hli Won mo- ~ ma
'stupendous error of eating unnatural foods. and
you say that natural foods make natural
ditions. but you do tel me what these
called natural foods are or how they can be made
you say what are unnatural foods nor how they
Are the methods of the New Era schools
such that the thrifty housewife can apply them In
her own kitchen, and are the materials Of the
the members Of her family are likely 10 accept
them without long period OF rebellion? Every
intelligent woman who studies the real welfare Of
her household would gladly help to inaugura,e
a anew. new era where food shall mean ADEQUATE nSur,
the process of cooking shall be such as to enhance
instead OF lessen food values. But how is the thing
THE Belvdere Larchmont. n. "
The New Era Cooking School Ito whom the fol.
lowing letter Addressed 1t may here he said,
selected in preference to any other because
OF its eminence in the crusade for better and more
natural food and because it was most prominently
mentioned in the original article:
An article on Cooking Schools IN The tribune
Of last Sunday "a copy OF which acSompanles ms.
anticipated though more than the subject mer-
It's As the Enclosed letter seems to eptomi5e mo
nit it to you with the request that YOU VINO nave
stady Of the matters involved and are therefore
competent TO give more lucid ana comprehensEo
5o nese geeo%s an man thoughu viii
further enlighten the readers of The Tribune on
subject fraught with so deep an interest TO the
people at large"
New Era Cooking School, Worcester Mass Aug
Your letter of the 9Th inst. nclosng letter from
Emily G. Van Derlip with your request that we
pleasure the article in The sunday Tribune to which
citation Of the teachings of our school
We find in Mrs. Van DerIp's letter some very i'm.
portant as well as Sensp eod snd what is an
Thus far Science has never answered these ques:
| tons to be within the comprehension Ok
| However, our answer is that natural food Is
such as is properly cooked from carefully selected
food-products which in the process OF grown ex-
and properly compound and organize them in
natures laboratory suitable ana b NECESSARY 10
Unnat food Is that which Is made ad from
a result of mans attempt to improve upon nature.
for it contempates the separation or de-organza-
ton, OF naturally organized ana aien ,ay or
| and the uniting them in mans LABORATORY VI
| kitchen. . ~, ,or tho ,ur-
Such foods but limitations anu, lot tlc
poses for which food is intended. are not permss-
sibe For instance whole wheat ORGANIZES IN INC
enough more nearly in the correct proportions than
most other kinds Of food o. TO noufiSh evenly '"o
This means food material to properly build Inc me
teeth muscle. bone. nerves. brains, ana all thS
such food we call natural" for it tends 10
| normal conditions-harmony In the human sfuc'-
Now II you remove from the whole wheat such
Of its constituent properties as maxi @ :,,Dnat
| ura' food for its tends 10 unnatural conuI'
tons such as poor teeth nerves ann or heaith
| ful conditions cannot exist in the bodies Oh tho
persons who live on this kind of food ,.,.
of eating unnatural food is only eompreh,endedi
when you contemplate the physiG9f ,s found
in the building of the structure OF man with poor
and unnatural material The human 81 o Seftes
than the material entering into It's construction. -,
Now the object Of the Ne Sd ET tho real build
ers of men and women, for they select ana pre-,
the material food hO now 70 to Se. Combine such
food-products into an endless variety OF ~
and INF SRe m so ' hsr chi child food
properly contributes to the nourishment OF every
Ths Enthusiasm OF the more than 10000 pupils Of
school estes TO the S 81 o so MIS-
method and we 1o rfr as to to tns wh a Se thrifty
housewife can apply the new method WITHOUT
iohs ev be permissible to add that graduates in
! cookery from New-York, Boston ana LONDON
! schools of cookery have attended our sch"'i a'So
! Graduates OF Pratt Institute. OF Brooklyn. -.
eThere is nothing impractical In the new me,hou.
Cor nnehalf the cooking will do the work ana inc
ror when the method adopted. is most salts
! factorv-good health is sure to follow: ., 49,.
But as proper food is the greatest OF al sSpJs
| aIowahle more than an answer IN seherdi 'eii"S
| could he made TO the questions asked . -, -.
their addresses they will receive by mail treatise realise
n ,his subject together with over huidreo
Oh ,, ol menus rules for cooking, etc. Yours
! truly, MI" hnN -, -, ..,,, =
In the discussion Of foods, natural and 'un'
natural" which has ensued. ana Is likely 10 exc
tend as result Of the publication OF su"i'ar.