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...report concludes "that the quality of the food as served could be greatly improved by better preparation and more careful choice of menus, and that the rate could be considerably reduced without lowering the quality of the food...
...amount of food thrown away is negligible. But the Food Committee found wanton waste all too common in the Halls. Incompetent cooking causes one dish after another, especially vegetables, to be returned to the kitchen un-tasted. There is no expert, full-time dietitian in charge of the menus. These are the main leaks in the pipeline from the market, where the Committee found that Harvard buys good food, to the gullets of House members. As a result, much of the food is unappetizing, and the board rates are so high that if the Halls had no guaranteed patronage, they...
...late Melvil Dewey was a daring man. He invented the library system of decimal classification, crusaded for the metric system of weights & measures, sponsored simplified spelling used on the menus (pe sup, hucklberi pi) of the fashionable Lake Placid Club, which he founded. If Melvil Dewey had been alive last week, he would have chuckled over his daring granddaughter Katharine...
...food cooked by the Adams Kitchen; the Dunster Kitchen; and the Kirkland Kitchen, which serves the other Houses, is purchased by Westcott. He goes over the menus of the stewards of the three establishments, making certain that they contain sufficient Vitamin A and protein, and then contacts the wholesale dealers. If the lima beans, which might have been served in Adams House, cost too much, he substitutes another cheaper vegetable...
...Food was scarce and hard to get. The average German was nearly always hungry, if he lived on his rations. If he went to a restaurant, he found it crowded and stifling, the shuttered windows keeping out the fresh air. Pork, veal and beef seldom appeared on the menus, but there was plenty of venison, wild pig and wildfowl. Shot on estates and in forests, they would not provide an inexhaustible food supply. These dishes were expensive, but the diner had to take them or else get nothing...