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Show 10th Anniversary Of I. (U. Stores Articles on food and cooking in newspapers and magazines, along with extensive food advertising, have revolutionized the nation's eating habits within the past generation, gen-eration, according to J. Frank Grimes, founder-president of Independent Inde-pendent Grocers' alliance, largest group of independent grocers in America, with which the Jefferson Jeffer-son Mercantile company of Milford is affiliated. Speaking to members of the alliance, al-liance, this week celebrating the tenth anniversary of its founding, Mr. Grimes said: "Thanks to the tremendous influence in-fluence of the cooking pages and the special stories on menus, diet and kindred subjects, we are today the best nourished and healthiest nation on earth. "No longer are we a nation of meat-and-potato eaters. Constantly Con-stantly informed by the press. each year has seen better and' better balanced meals on our tables, according to a survey we have completed among our fi,500 members in all parts of the coun-j try." Vitamins, proteins, starches.! carbohydrates just so many words a short while back all get their due consideration from the house-! wife today, the grocers reported, j Some of this information, largely large-ly in the case of younger women, comes from home economics courses cours-es in school, but the majority of it , comes from the pases of newspapers news-papers and periodicals, Mr. Grimes i declared. Publication of a new or different menu is quickly reflected in sales of the needed ingredients in the community, said the grocers. I lany of the women appear at the i stores carrying the published ' articles in their purses. . "The result of this remarkable ; public interest in the subject and 1 the comprehensive service of the ' newspapers is a nutritional balance that only the wealthy could afford a few years back. Thanks to the ' printing press, it is available to ' every family today." i |
