M. Escoffler, the great chef, says men are better cooks than women because they watch trifles with thoroughness and insist upon having all needed ingredients, while women manage with whatever they have at hand.
The average woman has always had to make due with what was handy and has not had the management of the purse strings. She has not cooked for profit, but from duty. When men cook, they are either in camp or do it for a lark to concoct some chafing dish dainty they had at a club, or they are professional cooks.
Give women of like intelligence the same incentive and the same training and supplies to do with and then see in time what kind of cooks women will become.
50 years ago, 1957
• The James R. Hoffa trial jury heard a cloak-and-dagger story today of a $2,000 wad of bills being passed to an informant on a busy Washington traffic circle in exchange for Senate Rackets Committee data on Teamsters Union President Dave Beck.
• The Maine State Library will receive $103,250 in federal funds this year to improve “rural” library service. The state now operates two bookmobiles – one in Lincoln, Waldo and Knox counties and the other along the northern Maine coast near Machias. The federal money will make it possible to add at least one and probably two more bookmobiles.
25 years ago, 1982
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Rising swiftly on a column of white smoke and orange flame, space shuttle Columbia sliced into the heavens yesterday on a seven-day mission that inaugurates America’s manned military operations in space and ends NASA’s 21-year-old all-civilian rule.
• Launch: 11 a.m. EDT, June 27, from pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center. Orbit: 113 times at an altitude of 190 miles, highest yet for Columbia. Mission length: 7 days, 1 hour, 13 minutes. Landing: Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., on Sunday, July 4. Cost: Total cost of the shuttle program to date, more than $10.67 billion.
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