Bubbly on Your Budget: Live Luxuriously with What You Have by Marjorie Hillis

Author:Marjorie Hillis [Hillis, Marjorie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781452102351
Publisher: Chronicle Books LLC
Published: 2011-08-25T18:30:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIX

YOU HAVE TO EAT

THERE ARE a lot of things that you can just toss out of your life like so much dead wood, when you come to a barren stretch, but food isn’t one of them. Three times a day you’ve got to eat—or, at any rate, you ought to eat, all people with fancy food schedules to the contrary. There may be those who can get along on peanuts and dates eaten at odd hours, but it is our inexpert opinion that they are queer ducks who like what it does to their ego more than they dislike what it does to their health. Anyway, we are all for three square meals a day, and there are few things from which we, and most of the people we know, get more fun.

Not so long ago, too much enthusiasm about food was looked down on. Sophisticated but maidless matrons went in for meetings instead of menus, and you heard a lot of elegantly snooty talk about the lowly kitchen minded. (We hate to think what came out of their kitchens, and the thought of their husbands sets us to brooding.) Now, however, food has become highbrow, the best people are gourmets, and it has dawned upon the majority of intelligent women that their minds should be able to take in the kitchen, along with a lot of other things.

Too much fuss is made over the drudgery of getting three meals a day—a fairly simple process that has been mastered by all sorts of brains the world over for a good many years. We aren’t suggesting that you serve the meals of peasant Russia (though you might get an idea from them), or that, if you’re maidless, getting meals won’t take time. But you can plan them so that they won’t take too much time, and if you put a little imagination into them, getting them shouldn’t be dull. Creating anything, from a symphony to a soufflé, interests anyone with a spark inside.

One of the pleasantest things in life is having a reputation as an outstanding person, and whether you do your standing out as a prima donna or a cook makes less difference in your personal satisfaction than you may think. If you’ve got to be the cook anyway, it’s a little short of stupid to stew because you can’t be the prima donna.

It is therefore our hard-boiled advice, if you come to a stretch when you have to get all the meals and get them as inexpensively as possible besides, to make this little chore your hobby and do it with an air. Nothing can be duller (both in the getting and in the eating) than uninteresting food on a drab table. But there is such a vogue for simple, yet interesting, food today that corned-beef hash and coleslaw, served with chic, can seem like something copied from the smartest house. (It may be just that, in fact.) It can also, served unattractively, seem like pretty poor pickings.

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