“THE KITCHEN FRONT”

Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 July 1940, Page 8

“THE KITCHEN FRONT”

FOOD CAMPAIGN IN ENGLAND. j Lord Woolton. the Minister of Food., j launching a national food campaign at j the Queen's Hall. London, recently, called on the women of England to > mobilise themselves on the kitchen • front.” . . “I want them to go into training, he said, "for the days which may come when the whole staying power of the 1 nation will depend on their being able 1 to keep up the energy and the spirits . of industrial workers by feeding them i sufficiently when supplies are difficult, 1 when things they have been accusr ' tomed to eat and use in cooking are no longer available. "Enough food is stored to make Hit- 1 ler, if he were a sensible and levelheaded man, begin to wonder. Wc have to see that in the emergency which may come it can be distributed properly, even though the normal channels : may be destroyed.” Explaining that for this they would have to call on the ingenuity of the British housewife, Lord Woolton said: “We have realised that women will find it easier to try new ideas if they - can do it in parties and laugh at one another’s failures. “We’re not going to be highbrow; , wc are not going to teach people how to make expensive fancy cakes. If we | succeed we shall have a great regiment of women getting the utmost food value out of everything that goes into the kitchen, able to adapt their cooking to such things as are available and still keep their families in good health. “I hope the men will help by encouraging the women and not laughing at them. Kitchen food eaten fresh from the pan and the dish is just about the tastiest food anyone ever gets." Lord Woolton said that the country had had so much to choose from that people had grown a little careless of food. Now they must take care of it and he gave these words of advice to the small consumer: If you each waste a slice of bread a day it needs 30 shiploads of wheat a year to make up the wastage. Be careful with sugar; we are consuming more than we ought. In wartime it should be one spoonful of tea for each person and none for the pot. It is a patriotic duty to use potatoes properly.