Chapter 6—Cooking Schools
Counsels to Parents, Teachers, and Students, 127;
Do not neglect to teach your children how to prepare wholesome
food. In giving them these lessons in physiology and in good cook-
ing, you are teaching them the first steps in some of the most useful
branches of education, and inculcating principles which are needful
elements in their religious life.
Counsels to Parents, Teachers, and Students, 288-289;
Had there been agricultural and manufacturing establishments con-
nected with our schools, and had competent teachers been employed to
educate the youth in the different branches of study and labor, devoting
a portion of each day to mental improvement and a portion to physical
labor, there would now be a more elevated class of youth to come upon
the stage of action, to have influence in moulding society. Many of the
youth graduated from such institutions would come forth with stability
of character. They would have perseverance, fortitude, and courage to
surmount obstacles, and such principles that they would not be swayed
by a wrong influence, however popular.
There should have been experienced teachers to give lessons to
young ladies in the cooking department.... There are very many girls
who are married and have families who have but little practical knowl-
edge of the duties devolving upon a wife and mother. They can read,
and play upon an instrument of music; but they cannot cook. They
cannot make good bread, which is very essential to the health of the
family.
Counsels to Parents, Teachers, and Students, 312-313;
In all our schools there should be those who are fitted to teach
cooking. Classes for instruction in this subject should be held. Those
who are receiving a training for service suffer a great loss when they
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