Cooking School

Healthy Living Series@Health and Salvation- Truth for Today Ministries

Preparation of wholesome meals are important

God regards the preparation of healthful food. He places a high estimate on those who do faithful service in preparing wholesome, palatable food. The one who understands the art of properly preparing food, and who uses this knowledge, is worthy of higher commendation than those engaged in any other line of work. This talent should be regarded as equal in value to ten talents; for its right use has much to do with keeping the human organism in health. Because so inseparably connected with life and health, it is the most valuable of all gifts.

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Give respect where respect is due! I prize my seamstress, I value my

typist; but my cook, who knows well how to prepare the food to sustain life and nourish brain, bone, and muscle, fills the most important place among the helpers in my family. —

Testimonies for the Church 2:370, 1870 CD 251.3

Bread making is a courtship requirement There are very many girls who have married

and have families, who have but little practical knowledge of the duties devolving upon a wife and mother. They can read, and play upon an instrument of music; but they cannot cook. They cannot make good bread, which is very essential to the health of the family.... To cook well, to present healthful food upon the table in an inviting manner, requires intelligence and experience. The one who prepares the food that is to be placed in our stomachs, to be converted into blood to nourish the system, occupies a most important and elevated position. The position of copyist, dressmaker, or music teacher cannot equal in importance that of the cook. — Testimonies for the Church 3:156 - 158, 1873 CD 252.4

Every woman’s duty to be a skillful cook

Our sisters often do not know how to cook. To such I would say, I would go to the very best cook that could be found in the country, and remain there, if necessary, for weeks, until I had become mistress of the art, — an intelligent, skillful cook. I would pursue this course if I were forty years old. It is your duty to know how to cook, and it is your duty to teach your daughters to cook. When you are teaching them the art of cookery, you are building around them a barrier that will preserve them from the folly and vice which they may otherwise be tempted to engage in. — Testimonies for the Church 2:370, 1870 CD 252.5

Taught to be keepers at Home Tit 2:3 The aged women likewise, that they

be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things;

Tit 2:4 That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,

Tit 2:5 To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.

There is nothing wrong with Health ReformThere are only poor cooking Many who adopt the health reform complain that

it does not agree with them; but after sitting at their tables I’ve come to the conclusion that it is not the health reform that is at fault, but the poorly prepared food. I appeal to men and women to whom God has given intelligence: Learn how to cook. I make no mistake when I say “men,” for they, as well as women, need to understand the simple, healthful preparation of food. Their business often takes them where they cannot obtain wholesome food. They may be called to remain days and even weeks in families that are entirely ignorant in this respect. Then, if they have the knowledge, they can use it to good purpose. — [Christian Temperance and Bible Hygiene, 56, 57] Counsels on Health, 155, 1890 CD 253.2

A needful call for cooking schoolsthe heath deformity is as a result of poor cooking

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.— Ms 95, 1901 CD 254.3

We lost the Earth by AppetiteWe must regain the people by Appetite There is a way of combining and preparing food that will make it both

wholesome and nourishing. Those in charge of the cooking in our sanitariums should understand how to do this. The matter should be treated from a Bible standpoint. There is such a thing as robbing the body of nutrition. The preparation of the food in the best manner possible is to become a science.—They must have ... the best quality of all sorts of healthful food. Those who have been in the habit of indulging the appetite with every luxury, if they come to the retreat and find at their first meal a meager diet, the impression is made at once on their minds that the reports which they have heard concerning the Adventists living so poor and starving themselves to death, is true. One meal of short rations will do more to the discredit of the institution than all the influences in other directions that can be made to counteract it. If we ever expect to meet the people where they are and bring them up to a sensible health reform diet, we must not begin by setting before them a radical diet. There must be placed upon the table nicely cooked dishes, and an abundance of good, palatable food, else those who think so much of what they eat will think they will surely starve to death. We want to have good dishes nicely prepared.— Lt 61, 1886 CD 289.2

We promote Nutrition and not Starvation. Cooking schools are to be held. The

people are to be taught how to prepare wholesome food. They are to be shown the need of discarding unhealthful foods. But we should never advocate a starvation diet. It is possible to have a wholesome, nutritious diet without the use of tea, coffee, and flesh food. The work of teaching the people how to prepare meals that is at once wholesome and appetizing, is of the utmost importance. —

Testimonies for the Church 9:112, 1909 CD 469.2

1 Corinthians 10:31- So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

Would you like to learn how to make a Lentil Pot Roast?

Would you like to learn how to make a Shepard's Pie without Dairy?

Would you like to learn how to make Whole Wheat Bread with a Pak choi cook up?

Would you like to learn how to make your own milk and cookies dairy free?

References

WebMd.com Livefood.com Various Testimonies of Mrs. Ellen G. White.