The New York herald., 1922-04-16
e LES oF Foop. COMPARING rHE YEARS

and only occasionally lncludlng eggs
amounts to a dietary revolution. In
the same quiet way eliminations of
expensive dishes, now considered a
necessity may come about. That is
how Prof Chaddock thinks the change
will come about.
There have been notable changes,
too. in the way bread, the traditional
staff of life, comes on the table. Not
so long ago this item of food was so
expensive, Nobody can have forgotten
when a respectable family felt that it
was not keeping up to caste If several
kinds of hot bread, biscuits, popovers
and what not did not appear on the
board at every meal. Not so now and
bread furnishes a good example OF
the evolution Of food. 1t Is baked in
factory; it is much cheaper than
home baked bread, because in q fac
tory less expensive materials enter
into its production. And instead Of
loading up a bread box with various
kinds Of bread well to do families now
| are content with rolls for breakfast
and a loaf or two. with dinner rolls
only when company is being enter
tanned.
In the cost of other baked goods
there las been a marked decrease
from the time when all these things,
cake, pie. puddings, &C.. had to be
manufactured at home. BY taking
the pastry department out of the home
and turning 1t over to the factory
there Is usually considerable saving.
In tie process at such a place the cost
OF production has been reduced by the
| substitution of condensed or evapo-
rated milk for fresh milk and of vege-
table fats for the more expensive
butter.
Cheese Better Liked
In Europe Than America
Other examples like these showing
an almost constant growth of economy
In little things, a growth that Is so
gradual that to many housekeepers
1t is imperceptible. yet which shows
that some changes are being effected
that may remove from US whatever
stigma attaches to the title of the most
extravagant nation in the world.
These changes would not prove ac-
ceptable If they interfered with Amer
leans wish for everything of the best
They want the best and are willing to
work to pay for the best. That desire
should involve no criticism, but it is
also true that the most expensive
foodstuffs may not be the best" for
healthy citizenship or the increase of
citizens.
A change in diet customs that may
be noted here without incongruity to
the main subject is the growing use
of cheese in American homes. Cheese
is wholesome and 'flling." dietitians
say, and these qualities of II have long
been appreciated at higher value in
Europe than in the United States. Like
nuts, the value of which has only
been considered in a casual way,
cheese is just coming into its own. AS
for nuts as food, they are sure to
count for a great deal in the evolution
of our diet which seems to be on the
way.
| without fear that our people are to
become suddenly vegetarians. it is not
able ethat vegetables have come to
play a larger part in the American
| table since the war. Our soldiers
brought back from France juster
idea of the pleasure to the diner of
we'll prepared vegetables than they
had ever known when they ate the
succulent things as they used to be
prepared in some sections of our land.
1t Is a strange statement, but in 1t il
germ of truth that only within a
decade have green vegetables been
| poplflar in America.