The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1957-02-22

Of cooks and hosts and to whom committed the
gracious duty preparing the board of hospitality the
first not the only duty to provide food food paaabe
plentiful and various food pleasing alike
and aroma.
The pleasure and satisfaction guests strong consid
erations for the guests quite
guest be the judge of the kinds and quantities
food eas the host has only to offer fair field for the
exercise of the diners judgment
guest must count caores that dismal computation;
most activity let him his dull work privately
and silently remember that it an upon conscience
and not subject for public discussion host the
cook refrain from the impossible business of examining the
slderue like pharmacist carefully compoundng doc
tors prescription. #
Doubtless place dieticiann hospitals and
sanitarium other institutions which must afford and
troll the whole dietary regimen of inmates Just there
place physician the dentist the chiropod and the
ter of training table But there human joy in being invited
the table decan; there abounding delight in being
summoned to the board of good cook
The counter of caories not normally healthy person
He is in invalid He takes food sick man
takes medicine weak takes tonic He does well, OF
follow the indicated him by competent
medical authority But he does obtrude his weakness
upon fellow diners as though it were strength He oends
imposed by of his limitations like rumphany
procamng on any and all occasions .hat ne ahiu taxes Two
Good for him. doubt but hardly way of e to be
talked OF and recommended generally
Among the humanies of man, is ancient
sharing of ones bread and salt Even among savages we
omit the admittedly exceptional activities of cannbathee
feast and as the poet says civilized cannot
cooks There gesture indicative of the spirit of
human brotherhood for which long than invitation to sit
together whether to dinner
ual urging to draw up chair and take pot luck
hospitality which has sweetened human
relationships through all the centuries cannot survive the cen
many gather not to take food in
enjoy themselves proper caories
that day will when meals all will be prepared,
and each will find full susenance taseess pellet
swallowed day Well that day comes, it will be sad
day for mankind, day of incalculable loss
The things which men in common which admit
grade variation by Of race education civilization,
scientific enlightenment three birth death and the taking
food drink The spirit all three plane
far above animal experience is the third of these
Leated The taking food is animal feeding;
it is social function of high significance thing to be
done without greed and also without cod scien
tific precision
No normal and healthy individual will deny that good din
with pleasant companions very enjoyable experience
And few will quarrel with the statement that carefully planned
menu worked out by decan is seldom the basis of jovia
dinner party SIS life dear be purchased
at the cost of calculated viamins and caories?'
Maybe the scientific people would passable hosts they
didn't dsma and consistently to such things beets
broccoli Maybe there might hospitality
the host whose knife sometimes allowed penetrate
juicy joint instead of being exclusively concerned with liver
scientific meaoaf Maybe there might be joy in vtaminc
programme that knew other vegetables than spinach and bare
green doed like handful of buckshot Maybe And
again. maybe not
business discussing easily grow sodd
certainly nothing admirable in droolng the delights Of
the table But is quite possible be sodd in being eversh
y concerned with precise qualities and of food in
being feyerishy concerned with wholesale supplies uccu
The greedy reeoader depcabe than the
tous precsian with his table of cores Both sheer mater
ass Neither has appreciation of food in its social aspects Nay
the suffer has the better of it, he is more likely to have
fragment of human joy and ovialy in his performance than
the calculator with his quareigious exactude observance
at dinner good enough" said Doctor Johnson "bu it
not sucha dinner would ask to- One wonders
what the Doctor would have said of dinner prepared mod
detician There would have been live in fade
nssna nnrui