BETTER COOKING IN ENGLAND

Evening Star, Issue 22882, 14 February 1938, Page 7

BETTER COOKING IN ENGLAND

A NEW CAMPAIGN Government experts here have now taken official cognizance of a song, and as a result they are going out to aid romance, writes the London correspondent of the ‘Christian Science Monitor.’ The song—harping',pn the theme of a score of other songs throughout the years—is that popular ditty of some while hack, ‘ Darling, if you could only cook. ’ Realizing that many a happy story gets a bit burned around the edges, along with the joint, through untutored manipulation of the Kitchen stove, the board of _ education has announced a nation-wide campagn to improve the standard of cooking here. In the view of the board an improved standard of cooking is a corollary of the national physical fitness campaign. As n start to the board’s campaign, teaching of domestic subjects in schools and technical institutes is to bo investigated and overhauled. The board has also appointed a departmental committee “ to consider the

aims of . instruction in' domestic subjects in public elementary schools ‘and the results, which this instruction should be expected to achieve.” Mrs Eveline M. Lowe, chairman of the London County Council Education Committee, is to preside. Various education organisations have been asked to nominate members.

The committee is to _ investigate present .methods of domestic teaching, accommodataion and equipment available, training of'teachers, and arrangements for the .provision of materials “ and for the disposal of the articles produced.”/ ■ All this is to have special. reference to cooking. And at the same time the board of education is demanding that local. authorities make plana for an advance in domestic training. Special , reference is made to " the need. for further . facilities - for young women, both before and after marriage, to .obtain guidance. and practical instruction in Household management, more particularly iu household cookery. ” Housewives here welcome the reforms, So do householders.