The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-08-14
GEORGIA HAS TWO CHILDREN WHO COOK
BETTER THAN FAMOUS BLACK MAMMIES'

Savannah, Ca, Aug. 13.-Georgia
has produced two wonderful culinary
artists boy, and a girl. Both have
just their mothers and their BLACK
Mammies'' to shame in their respec-
tive lines. The girl can cook anything
that comes along-from an egg to a
plum pudding. The lad has speciali-
zed on pastries. The kitchen in their
homes are always turned over to these
two when there is company to dinner.
Miss Matte Lou Branam, of Eat
enton, a school girl, is now the best
cook in the entire south. With no
other training than that obtained IN
der the supervision of her mother on a
Georgia farm, Miss Branam has learn
ed to produce so many delicate dishes
that one would hardly be able to
taste all of them in a month.
Last fall at the Putnam County
fair Miss Branam was awarded a
prize for the versa tility of her en-
ployment of the products OF a single
crop. More recently still the little
lady visited the state normal school
al Athens, where she showed her
elders how to make an almost end
less variety of dishes from corn and
its products. When Miss Branam had
completed her labors, 10 separate dish
es had made their appearance upon
the table and the girl had not nearly
exhausted the receipts IN her posses
sion.
Teaches the Teachers.
Miss Branam went into the county
cooking contest merely that her school
might be represented. Her success on
that occasion gave her immediate fame
in the state, whose people regard
cooking as one of the higher arts.
When the state normal school assem-
bled for the summer term Miss Bran
am was invited to appear before the
domestic science department and give
the teachers a lesson. The exhibition
attracted a large number of people
from many cities in Georgia, who
viewed with establishment the work
of the young girl. Domestic science
instructors were amazed.
Miss Branam's greatest ambition
now is to cook a meal for the presi
dent of the United States. She is
Southern to her finger tips, and so
believes that the next chief executive
will be Woodrow Wilson. AS Wilson
is more Of a Georgian than he is a
Virginian, having lived the earlier
years of his manhood and married his
wife here, Miss Branam hopes to con-
vince him that he made mistake in
ever seeking a home in any other
cline than this. She is now engaged
book form in anticipation of the du-
ties that may devolye upon her.
Miss Branam is fourteen years old
She has just graduated from the
Eatonton high school, and is now pre-
pairing to take a college course. The
girl says she picked up her knowledge
by helping her mother in her arduous
household duties, and that she did
not herself know how much she had
learned until she undertook to dem
onstrate.
Boy Marvel.
Miss Branam's closest competitor
for culinary honors is Monroe Moon
the youngest son of John T. Moon
mayor of Macon. The boy is only
twelve years old, but he Is a cook Of
unusual ability. His specially is des-
serts. He is regarded as the best cake
cook in Macon. Whenever there is
company for dinner his mother al
ways turns the preparation of the pas.
tries over to the boy.
The boy has never had a day: