The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-23
WILEY ON GOOD MEALS.

WILEY ON GOOD MEALS.
American housewives, according to
Dr.. Harvey w Wiley, head of the
chemistry bureau of the department
OF agriculture, are not good cooks. He
says they are too willing to leave
cooking to the domestics, and have
yet to learn that the preparation of a
meal is an art, not drudgery. When
they understand this we not only shall
live more cheaply, but we shall be
greater nation. DIR. Wiley holds that
cooking in France and most of the
continental countries is much better
than here. In speaking of French
cooking he said recently:
A French meal has taste. The
cooks OF France understand how to
incorporate in the dishes they pre-
pare delicate gTadations of flavor
which we do not comprehend even
remotely. Marketing is subject
with which every French housewife
worthy OF the name is trained from
childhood ale women there know
how to buy. They know, for instance,
that an article of food is not neces-
sarily good because it costs a good
deal, thing that American women
apparently do not understand
French meals, therefore, in addi-
ton TO being excellent for the stom-
ach. do not rest heavily on the peck
etbook. A French woman will take
piece of cheap meat, dress it and
cook it perfectly and put it on the
table a dish fit for a king She under
stands hntr I'm crasn oct
good meals from only fair materials,
because she puts into her cooking that
thing which is more than money, the
fine art of cooking.
believe that as an economic
TO overlook the subject of cooking
Napoleon, believe it was, said that
an army travels on its stomach The
same is true of a nation An il1-fed
race is q weak race-weak mentally
and physically. Give us the best
cooks in the world and this country
vii, lor continue the greatest nation
on the globe
In the same connection Dr. Wiley
uttered a warning against the meat
boycott, which, he said, was danger
Gus to health at this time of year,
when the system needs something
stronger than vegetables in order to
keep the body up 10 its normal tenn
perature, Persons who are accus-
toned to meat will injnre their health
seriously If they leave it alone just
at the time when heating foods are
necessary tn stimulate the health OF
the body. DR.. Wiley explained that
he did not mean that one should eat
a great deal of meat He declared
that most people eat too much But
one should eat enough meat to sat
isfy the natural craving for it. The
government expert holds that meat
used temperately never hurt any one,
the vegetarians to the contrary not.
witnstanding.
Speaking of the cost OF living, DIR.
/ Wiley said that, in his opinion, much
OF it was due to public extravaganza.
One can eat almost as well and as
cheaply noW as he could ten years
ago If he is willing to look about him
The trouble is that in these times
when everybody has money, tie ex
pensive restaurants are well pat
Tonized and the cheaper ones are de
/ serted. People go there because they
/ can afford IL. and when the check
1 comes they kick because things are SC
4 high. AS matter of fact, they could
I go TO less pretentious restaurants and
/ save money.
4 "Of course, food manufacturers are
guilty of good deal of extortion Dc
/ yoI know how much a bushe1 d
wheat is worth when made into brt ak
i fast foods? Tcl dollars. Plain crack
! ed oats or corn meal would be more
/ wholesome. more nutritious and Z
great deal cheaper than any of the
{ new-fangled sawdust foods.
There is more or less swindlins
in canned goods, too The canned
goods manufacturers ought to be made
to fill up the cans. leaving a reason
able space, OF course. for swelling
and then pour water into the chinks
The way things are now the cans arr
often only three-duarters full wher
opened.
The high price of eggs is due tx
the fact that when eggs are cheap il
the spring the cold storage people g
out and bid the price up against th'
consuming public until It rises as higl
as twenty-five or thirty cents a doz
en- In the fall and winter they holt
the public up for thirty and fort.
cents a dozen Legislation nigh
stop this, or someone may discover
hen that lays as prolifcally in winte
as in spring ar : summer"