WORLD TOUR BY COOKING

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 12751, 6 January 1936, Page 3

WORLD TOUR BY COOKING

MILL GIRL’S FIVE YEARS’ SIGHT-SEEING

WORKED ON NEW ZEALAND FARMS.

LONDON, Nov. 23

Would you like to work your way round the world? If so learn to be a good cook, says Miss M. Duty, the Manchester mill-worker, who walked out of the factory one day with a map ol the world, in, steerage ticket and LIS in her pocket and spent five years sight-seeing, states an overseas correspondent. “It doesn’t do you a hit of good to have professing! or business training,” she said this week, when she arrived hack in London from ht-ir adventures. “All the countries are pouring out young people for business and professional work faster than they can lie absorbed, but nowhere is there a. sufficiency of good cooks.” NUMEROUS FRIENDS. Miss Luty stayed in each place until she bad scon all that there was to -see and then she moved on to the next. She has friends in half the cities of the world. She began at .Halifax, where she spent several months, and then cooked way right across Canada in time for the harvesting in the grain-grow-ing district near the R-oc-ky Mountains. There she cooked for 1G harvesters three times a day, following them for miles, in a “cook-ear,” as they worked out their contract for half a dozen farmers. “Brooks’’ was her uniform for this job. THEN TO NEW ZEALAND From hero she made visits in a dogtea mto visit trap-lines, with lho temperature at 40 degrees below zero. Then, 1 rom the edge of the Arctic, •"he went -surf-bathing at Honolulu. After that New Zealand Maoris, Australian. .sheep stations, African tomtoms. In between -she stopped at all the famous ports of call to see the sights.

She cooked every imaginable kind of iood, from rainbow trout to breadfruit. And the joke is, she will tell you that she “just bates cooking.”