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Counsels on Diet and Foods
Encourage Development of Individual Talent
376. It is the Lord’s design that in every place men and women
shall be encouraged to develop their talents by preparing healthful
foods from the natural products of their own section of the country.
If they look to God, exercising their skill and ingenuity under the
guidance of His Spirit, they will learn how to prepare natural products
into healthful foods. Thus they will be able to teach the poor how to
provide themselves with foods that will take the place of flesh meat.
Those thus helped can in turn instruct others. Such a work will yet
be done with consecrated zeal and energy. If it had been done before,
there would today be many more people in the truth, and many more
who could give instruction. Let us learn what our duty is, and then do
it. We are not to be dependent and helpless, waiting for others to do
the work that God has committed to us.—
Testimonies for the Church
7:133, 1902
A Call for Cooking Schools
377. 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 young men and women, in the art of cooking.
Women especially should learn how to cook.—
Manuscript 95, 1901
378. Good service can be done by teaching the people how to
prepare healthful food. This line of work is as essential as any that
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can be taken up. More cooking schools should be established, and
some should labor from house to house, giving instruction in the art of
cooking wholesome foods.—
The Review and Herald, June 6, 1912
[
See “Cooking Schools” in Section XXV
]
Health Reform and Good Cooking
379. One reason why many have become discouraged in practicing
health reform is that they have not learned how to cook so that proper
food, simply prepared, would supply the place of the diet to which
they have been accustomed. They become disgusted with the poorly
prepared dishes, and next we hear them say that they have tried the
health reform, and cannot live in that way. Many attempt to follow
out meager instructions in health reform, and make such sad work