Good cooking is one of the fundamental principles of good health. Everyday a large percentage of food gets spoiled in the kitchen, before it reaches the table. What an infinite blessing it would be to all the people if that spoiling of the food in the kitchen could be stopped! How much of comfort, good health, and happiness that would imply. How great the economy which it would work. The cook who " knows how " is the economical cook. And the food that is properly prepared for the table is the food which in the end costs less and goes further than any other. The high cost of living would have no terrors for the good cook who liked the simple and nutritious dishes.