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Show WHERE CORNBREAD PERSISTS Used by Thousands of Well-to-Do People Peo-ple In 8outh In Cities and Towns as Well as In Country. In response to Clinnip Clurk'a advice ad-vice that there should be n greater use of corn as food, the epicure of tho New York Sun makes this sago observation concerning cornbread : "It was wrjl thought of In this country as human food, CO, 40, perhaps SO years ago. But In nn unfortunate day even poor folks began to neglect corn. Dressed tip as hominy It still had n certain popularity; parents were willing that their children should eat It thus. Treated with baking powder, salt, plenty of rich cream and butter, It was still made Into u hot bread some were not ashamed to cat." This serves chiefly In this part of the country to show bow little the South and Southerners uro computed as n part of the country, and how little lit-tle they know In New York and other supposed enlightened centers of what constitutes good eating, says the Nashville Nash-ville (Tcnn.) Banner. It Is nssuredly not necessary to use the past tense when corn as human food Is spoken of In the South. Corn-bread Corn-bread Is used preferably by thousands of well-to-do people of the South, In the cities and towns, as well us lu the rural districts. Hob Taylor used to say one essential essen-tial difference between the South and North Is "hot biscuit and cold light-bread." light-bread." The negro cooks In the South made hot bread for each meal practicable, prac-ticable, while the thrifty housewives of the North had "baking days," when enough bread was baked for n week. That was where the difference mainly lay. |