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Fashions: The Kitchen

The Idea: A free school for private cooks.

The Motive: To teach fancy dishes to U. S. private cooks and to teach U. S. dishes to tyro foreigners. Also to improve U. S. housewives. Also to build goodwill for the New York Herald-Tribune.

The Story: In Manhattan last week there terminated a four weeks' free cooking course conducted by the New York Herald-Tribune. Cooks attended this course—private cooks from Manhattan, private cooks from out-of-own,*private cooks fresh from Germany & Hungary whose new mis-resses had ruled that they needed further drill. Housewives too attended—housewives of all grades, good ones who wished to excel, doubtful...

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