Agencies For The Sale Of Cooked Foods Without Profit

Author : United States; Council of Nat Economics
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ISBN 13 : 9781330611456
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (114 download)

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Download or read book Agencies for the Sale of Cooked Foods Without Profit (Classic Reprint) written by United States; Council of Nat Economics and published by . This book was released on 2015-09-27 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Agencies for the Sale of Cooked Foods Without Profit The survey here reported was decided upon by the Woman's Committee of the Council of National Defense in the spring of 1918, and the plan for it was developed by an advisory committee of persons known throughout the country for their understanding of the economics of nutrition. At the time when it was undertaken, no one could foresee how food conditions might develop in the United States, and an intelligent policy for national preparedness demanded the collection of reliable information regarding the practical methods and economic results of group or community cooking wherever it had been tried. Although the outcome of the war has now changed the international food situation and there seems less danger of an acute shortage in this country, food conditions are still far from normal. We may yet be called on to share a large proportion of our supplies with less fortunate nations, and prices are still so high that the adequate feeding of many families remains a serious problem. Questions of domestic labor are also becoming more rather than less complicated, both in homes which depend on servants and where the woman who formerly kept house for her own family is now employed outside. Moreover, the general interest in all these questions is much greater than formerly, while reliable information is very scarce. It has, therefore, seemed wise to publish this report, though the original purpose in making it no longer holds. It is realized fully that the material here presented does not cover the whole subject of the preparation of food outside of the home. Such a complete survey would have involved investigations beyond the functions and means of the Woman's Committee. No effort has been made to include restaurants, even those on a cooperative or community basis, except when they are closely connected with enterprises which sell cooked food to be consumed elsewhere. Commercial canning factories, bakeshops, delicatessen shops, etc., have also been disregarded together with community canning kitchens, cooperative exchanges for home-cooked foods, etc.. though the advisory committee is probably unanimous in the belief that if properly controlled as to sanitation and price, some of these offer great promise of relief in this country. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.