Women Are Better Cooks

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19100, 22 August 1936, Page 10

Women Are Better Cooks

ARE women to-day the good, skilled cooks our grandmothers used to be? A lively debate took place in London not long ago between Mr. St. John Ervine and Mrs. Mary Hnmttfoii on the subject of women cooks, aud the former's views that "When a man marries a wife he wants someone who can present a good meal and not an expert tin-opener." Mrs. Hamilton maintained that to-day women are better cooks than they have ever been. Unquestionably it must be admitted that the rise of the woman chef is a vital topic at fashionable dinner tables.

What higher honour for a woman chef than to be employed by the King? The King it is believed will retain his woman cook at one of Ins residences. His sister, the Princess Royal, employs a Yorkshire woman, Mrs. Shaw, to cook for her both in her home at Harewood and in London at 32 Green street. The Duchess of York also has a woman cook.

Another far-famed woman in culinary art. is Mrs. Sully, who has been responsible for so many years for the rare dishes, beautifully served at Lord and Lady Roscbcry's banquets. Other town houses where women chefs reign supremo are Lord Howard de Walden's, Seaford House, also that famous centre of hospitality, Londonderry House. Lady Ludlow 's home at Bath House has a unique reputation for the dishes prepared by Miss Owen, who has now retired, but still maintains her interest by travelling to different countries in Europe to study euisine.