SECRET HOBBY

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 933, 28 March 1930, Page 11

SECRET HOBBY

Cookery Lessons on The Quiet

“My dear, this omelet is rutbui * disaster! Did you make the fatal mistake of putting milk in it?” This is the type of remark that ma. be heard in any London household in ■which the men folk have been taking secret lessons in cookery. Cooking is, at the moment, a fash ionable hobby for men. In Battersea men are attending a special course arranged for husbands, and at various cookery schools in London some of the most enthusiastic pupils are men The superintendent of one of these schools told a newspaperman recently that she enjoyed teaching men to cook. “They like cookery because they regard it. not as something which has to be done, but simply as a hobby," she said. “That is why they get on so well. Bachelors like to give little dinners which they have cooked themselves, and husbands like to feel independent of their wives. “Some of my pupils have their lessons secretly, and say nothing to their wives until they can show the lightness of their touch in pastry or a I suuffle.” Among well-known men. Major Hugh Pollard, the .small-arms expert, i anil author of “The Sportsman’s Cookery Book,” makes cooking one of his | hobbies. [ “I consider myself quite a good i cook.” he said to a “Daily Chronicle’ representative. “I first began to cook just after the war. I have always shot a good deal, and I found that servants did j not know how to cook game. So 1 j set to work to teach them. I have done a good deal of emergency cooki \ug while camping, and I have always refused to be ordered out of my kii chen. “Then I wrote my cookery book, which was the result of personal and quite practical experience.”