“There are but a few things on which health, and happiness depend more
than on the manner in which food is cooked.
You may make houses enchantingly beautiful, hang them with pictures, have them clean and airy and convenient; but if the stomach is fed with sour bread and burnt meats, it will raise such rebellions that the eyes will see no beauty anywhere.
The abundance of splendid material we have in America is in great contrast with the style of cooking most prevalent in our country. “
How true this is today…
Of course Catherine Beecher goes on to discuss green biscuits and sour bread but for us today we could use the prevalence of packaged mixes and the abscense of cooking great meals from scratch.
“In order that the duties of the Cook may be properly performed, and that he may be able to reproduce esteemed dishes with certainty, all terms of indecision should be banished from his art.
Excellence in the art of cookery, as in all other things, is only attainable by practice and experience.”
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