NOVEL ADVENTURE

Waikato Independent, Volume XXXVI, Issue 3421, 18 February 1936, Page 2

NOVEL ADVENTURE

“COOKED” HER WAY ROUND THE WORLD. Would you like to work your way round the world ? If so, learn to be a good cook, says Miss M. Luty, a Manchester millworker. A recent message from London says that Miss Luty walked out of the factory one day with a map of the world, a steerage ticket and £ls in her pocket and spent five years sightseeing. “It doesn’t do you a bit of good to have professional or business training,” Miss Luty said, when she arrived back in London from her adventures. “All countries are pouring out young people for professional and business work faster than they can be absorbed. But nowhere is there a sufficiency of good cooks.”

Miss Luty stayed in each place until she had seen all there was to be seen and then 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 her way right across Canada in time for the harvesting in the grain-growing district near the Rocky Mountains. There she cooked for 16 harvesters three times a day, following them for miles in a “cook car” as they worked out their contract with half a dozen farmers.

The money she earned on the prairies she used to see “Jack London’s country,” and spent a month at Fort McMurray on the Peace River. From there she made trips in a dog team to visit trap lines, with the temperature at 40deg. below zero.

Then, from the adge of the Arctic, she went surf-bathing at Honolulu. After that New Zealand, Australian sheep stations, African tom-toms. In between she stopped at all the famous ports of call to see the sights. She cooked every imaginable kind of food, from rainbow trout to bread fruit. And the joke is, she will tell you that she “just hates cooking.”