381. The proper cooking of food is a most important accomplishment. Especially where meat is not made a principal article of food is good cooking an essential requirement. Something must be prepared to take the place of meat, and these substitutes for meat must be well prepared, so that meat will not be desired.—Letter 60a, 1896 (CD 256.1) MC VC

382. It is the positive duty of physicians to educate, educate, educate, by pen and voice, all who have the responsibility of preparing food for the table.—Letter 73a, 1896 (CD 256.2) MC VC

383. We need persons who will educate themselves to cook healthfully. Many know how to cook meats and vegetables in different forms, who yet do not understand how to prepare simple and appetizing dishes.—The Youth’s Instructor, May 31, 1894 (CD 256.3) MC VC

[Tasteless Dishes—324, 327]
[Camp Meeting Demonstrations—763]
[The Need for Meat Substitute Pointed out in 1884—720]
[Skillful Arrangement of Bounties, An Aid in Health Reform—710]
[Tact and Discernment Required in Work of Giving Instruction in Meatless Cookery—816] (CD 256) MC VC

Poor Cooking a Cause of Disease VC

384. For want of knowledge and skill in regard to cooking, many a wife and mother daily sets before her family ill-prepared food, which is steadily and surely impairing the digestive organs, and making a poor quality of blood; the result is, frequent attacks of inflammatory disease, and sometimes death.... (CD 256.4) MC VC

We can have a variety of good, wholesome food, cooked in a healthful manner, so that it will be palatable to all. It is of vital importance to know how to cook. Poor cooking produces disease and bad tempers; the system becomes deranged, and heavenly things cannot be discerned. There is more religion in good cooking than you have any idea of. When I have been away from home sometimes, I have known that the bread upon the table, as well as most of the other food, would hurt me; but I would be obliged to eat a little in order to sustain life. It is a sin in the sight of Heaven to have such food.—Christian Temperance and Bible Hygiene, 156-158, 1890 (CD 256.5) MC VC