AFTER THE WAR

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 304, 12 May 1941, Page 2

AFTER THE WAR

NEW RULES FOR EATING BIG MEALS OUT OF FASHION There seems little doubt that eating is going out of fashioni for good —eating on the grand scale anyway —and that heavy meals will not come back again after the war. Mr Churchill thinks so. With shrewd insight on the running of homes, he told Mr George Hicks, Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Works and Buildings, that ho considered too many houses ha ■ been built round the kitchen in the past. Architects,, now busy planning new homes for afteir the war, think so too. They are now trying to design the perfect kitchenMiss Ledeboer, secretary of the 1940 Committee of Investigations on Rot-Development after the, war, said to me : "There's no doubt that present alterations in feeding will have a big effect on kitchen planning. "Traces" of Cooking-. "One of the chief difficulties in every household isi the fact that whatever is cooking im the kitchen Is 'noticeable' all over the house. "Our idea is to make a kitchen inconspicuous though completely efficient. It's not enough to have all the latest labour-saving devices. "If a woman has to bring the ironing board into the living room it means her kitchen is bad:ly designed "Space and airiness will count for a lot in future kitchens. They will be more than rooms in which to do the washing up and steam a pudding. . "Women nowadays have less and less time to spend cooking sues puddings and joints. I think Ave shall organise our homes more cn the American lines—more salads and vegetables and, small tasty made-up dishes, needing littie cooking."