Idle Thought
‘] WIDDLING, my radio knob. idly from Aunt Daisy to a Home Science talk to perhaps Helen Cox’s Fun With Food, I am impressed by the modern housewife’s limitless opportunities for culinary education. Why, then, do we continue to earn censure from overseas visitors and from that bane of wives, the husband with overseas experience? Are.»we in fact. any better at housewifery than,our mothers and mothers-in-law before us? Oris tadio, educationally speaking,.an overrated mediumdo we listen to talks on food as we listen. to. the morning serial, to. escape from the perplexities of our everyday
life into a world where the experts preside with Olympian calm over their trays of leavened scones and sunkissed, not Ethiopian, meringue? My own theory is that only the efficient have time to sit down to these pep-talks on food with the calm necessary to receive lasting benefit from them. The rest of us are too busy pecking the burned bits off our saucepans and wishing we could think of something besides
sausages.
M.
B.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 651, 21 December 1951, Page 12
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171Idle Thought New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 651, 21 December 1951, Page 12
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