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Show Victory Cooking School In Provo Today, 2 p.m. j County Housewives To Hear Famous Home Economist At Free Victory Cooking School At Provo Today, 2 P. M. County housewives probably haven't thought of themselves in the role of soldiers, but they are a part nf Uncle Sam's army just the same. Take it from Julia Lee Wright, Safeway's famous home economics authority, who will conduct the state - accredited, free Victory Cooking school at Provo high school auditorium today at 2 p. m., cooking has become as important as cannons and the war is being fought in the kitchens of Ameri- - can homes, as well as on the battlefields bat-tlefields of Europe and Asia. None of us can match the sacrifices sacri-fices of American fighting men abroad, but upon the American housewife, says Mrs. Wright, depends de-pends the vigor of the American War Victory Drive .at home . . . ; upon her ability to cook nutritiously, nutri-tiously, to prepare healthful, tasty meals that retain precious food values, depend the health and morale of men and women who are behind the men behind the guns. Noted for her ability to drama- tize nutrition, to translate techni- cal, scientific terms into practical information that the housewife can understand and apply in her own kitchen, Mrs. Wright will ap- pear in the Provo high auditorium 5 today at 2 p. m., under the joint sponsorship of the Utah State Nu- trition council, a unit of the State I Council for Defense, and the Utah State Press association. Her services are being made available to Utah nutrition councils coun-cils by Safeway stores as a part of their contribution to the upbuilding up-building of American health for a vigorous war effort. Julia Lee Wright learned to cook j as a matter of necessity. As a little lit-tle girl on the homestead of a cut-over cut-over forest land of Olympic Peninsula Penin-sula in the state of Washington, she learned how to do things that most girls of her age had merely read about. She and her mother canned the chickens they raised and the fish they caught. They put up vegetables they had planted and preserved wild fruit gathered from the mountainside. Like Utah's pio- neer women, the young Julia and her mother did everything not as f a lark, but because they had to in order to survive! While attending the University of Washington in 1923, Julia met (Continued on page ten) . COOKING SCHOOL IN PROVO TODAY (Continued from page one) and married the present news editor of the San Francisco Examiner. Exam-iner. After her marriage she entered en-tered the home economics field in Spokane, later conducting cooking schools for various Pacific coast newspapers. Out of this vast storehouse of practical knowledge comes her wide understanding of housewives' house-wives' problems. She has conducted conduct-ed hundreds of cooking schools throughout the western states, met people, gathered new ideas always al-ways in quest of knowledge. Those attending the Provo school will learn from Mrs. Wright such new ideas as how to adjust recipes for our altitude, cooking vegetables by color, cooking in less time, how to conserve vitamins, how to get more nutrition for your food dollar. Mrs. Wright will be accompanied accompan-ied by Miss Bernice Broomfield, her assistant in the homemakers' bureau, a former Bountiful, Utah, girl who is rapidly attaining prominence prom-inence in the home economics field under Mrs. Wright's tutelage. |