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Section 14—Teaching Health Principles
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Good cooks are few. Many, many mothers need to take lessons
in cooking, that they may set before the family well-prepared, neatly
served food.
Before children take lessons on the organ or the piano they
should be given lessons in cooking. The work of learning to cook
need not exclude music, but to learn music is of less importance than
to learn how to prepare food that is wholesome and appetizing.
Cooking Schools
Connected with our sanitariums and schools there should be
cooking schools, where instruction is given on the proper preparation
of food. In all our schools there should be those who are fitted to
educate the students, both men and women, in the art of cooking.
Women specially should learn how to cook.
It is a sin to place poorly prepared food on the table, because the
matter of eating concerns the well-being of the entire system. The
Lord desires His people to appreciate the necessity of having food
prepared in such a way that it will not make sour stomachs and in
consequence sour tempers. Let us remember that there is practical
religion in a loaf of good bread.
A Talent of the Highest Value
Let not the work of cooking be looked upon as a sort of slavery.
What would become of those in our world if all who are engaged in
cooking should give up their work with the flimsy excuse that it is
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not sufficiently dignified? Cooking may be regarded as less desirable
than some other lines of work, but in reality it is a science above
all other sciences. Thus God regards the preparation of healthful
food. He places a high estimate on those who do faithful service in
preparing wholesome, palatable food.
The one who understands the art of properly preparing food,
and who uses this knowledge, is worthy of higher commendation
than those engaged in any other line of work. This talent should
be regarded as equal in value to ten talents; for its right use has
much to do with keeping the human organism in health. Because so