The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-01-15
PORK AND BEANS
NOT FOR BOSTON
Food Authority Says No Special Bill
of Fare Exists for Certain
Communities.
[By Burton X. Standish, Written for
the United Press.]

i BY Burton K Standish, Written for
the United Press.]
WASHINGTON, Jan. 15.-Pork and
beans are not the main features of the
New Englander's diet. No more are
corn meal and pork the pieces de re-
sistence of southerner's bill Of fare.
No less authority than DR.. C. F. Lang
worthy, nutrition expert for the de-
partment of agriculture, vouches for
this statement.
Moreover, in a recent publication,
DR.. Langworthy asserts that the Ameri-
can public, without regard to section,
are weli-fed, and have wider bill of
fare than such examples of alleged re-
gional diets as mentioned asoye might
indicate. He throws a new light upon
the subject of the high cost of living,
in the declaration that the waste of
food products is largely responsible
for the excessive costs under which
the American housewives labor.
1T has been found that the waste in
the average American home ranges
from nothing to as high as twenty per-
cent of the food purchased" de-
clares DR.. Langworthy. "a fair average
would be about ten per cent"
Tie department nutrition expert
contends that as a general rule the
American people do not suffer from
under-nutrition. In some cases which
have come to the attention Of the de-
partment, families we're living on
very limited diet, as regards the va
riety and amount of food eaten, but
such people, it is declared. we're living
below what has been termed the pow
erty line
DR.. Langworthy has figures to show
that American families are burdened
by the high cost of living largely from
the fact that they seek too wide va
riety in foods. without giving suffi-
cient attention to the need of nourish,
ing materials. For instance, says DR..
Langworthy, many workingmen's fam
lilies who are in comfortable circum-
stances, expend too large proportion
of their incomes for such food as
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Such foods could have been omit
ted from the diet without materially
changing its nutritiye value, while the
cost of the daily food would have been
considerably lowered" said the expert.
COR other articles which would have
helped make the diet attractive could
have been supplied at a greatly lower
cost
"An opportunity may be found for
lessening the expense in many families
by cutting down the waste, especially
In such foods as meat, butter and 9TH
ers, which are expensive In the
representative family, the animal God
wasted was found to contain about
three per cent of the total of protein
and two per cent of the total energy
contained in the food purchased In
the vegetable food purchased about
one per cent of the total protein and
two per cent of the total energy was
wasted"
Economical living, the doctor finds
Econsists of careful buying, good cook
ing, and careful serving to suit the
individual appetites of the family, sc
that little is left on the plates to be
thrown away. Another factor in keep
ing the cost down, says the doctor, IL
the careful use of all material lef
over In the kitchen or on the tabl.
after the family has been served
While this plan requires slightly more
time, DR.. Langworthy declares it Is
the only course by which housekeepers
may Systematically save.
| The doctor also advises that cheaE