A Social Reform from the Kitchen.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 378, 19 June 1889, Page 3

A Social Reform from the Kitchen.

It is a well ascertained fact that, with respect to about 90 per cent, of the community, the price paid for food comes to one-half the income or more. After this food is bought how much of it is wasted in bad cooking? How much human force is wasted in consequence of bad cooking? How much does dyspepsia or indigestion, caused by bad cooking, impair the working capacity of the people of the United States and diminish their product ? Can five cents' worth per day be saved ? Is not that a very insufficient measure of the difference between a poor, wasteful cook and a good, economical one ? If five cents a day can be saved on food and fuel, while at the same time that which is bought and cooked may be converted into more nutritious and appetising food, the difference in each community of 6,000 people would be $109,500 a year, or about i) per cent, of the total product of the typical community, which we have assumed to be $1,200,000 a year in gross, — April "Forum."