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Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 120, 17 November 1937, Page 18

warranted.. It was common sense and natural to reduce the birth-rate in lean years, and in this more hopeful and plentiful time an increase will probably show." "And now for a word or two about our cooking! Some of us who have given our lives to home-making and the comfort of our families feel just a little hurt over the recent, accusations about our cooking and serving of meals. Like everything else, even the style of cooking is undergoing change, and if the present and next generation are not super cooks it will not be for want of specialised instruction and guidance now. We of the older generation have done our best with the material at our disposal, and the lack of assistance and much to be done, but as the stress of average life has increased greatly during the last halfcentury we believe that our cooking has not hindered but helped. Our men look fairly well conditioned, and if instead of car riding home, more men would walk (the time would not be wasted), the food prepared would usually satisfy. If tourists rightly complain of the.quality of the food supplied here, the reason is often found, not in the lack Of skill of the cook, but in the exportation of the highestgrade foodstuffs, e.g., meats, dairy produce, fruit, etc.. leaving for home consumption, for the most part, only the inferior grades of foodstuffs. The authorities who govern our food supplies should remember that charity begins at home and secure'for our own people the finest of our products at reasonable'cost. We cannot 'make bread from stones or figs from thistles' or a good custard without eggs." j