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...American Gas Association, whose meeting at Atlantic City last week was in accidental coincidence with that of the dieticians, is interested in cooking. Delegates heard that pie and angel cake are the two most popular U. S. dishes. Boston baked beans and corn pone have yielded to delicacies. Missourians like Spanish dishes. In New York pie and cake are most popular, in New Jersey nothing in particular...
...bread into the current. As the loaves float down to him, Huck fishes them in, takes out the plugs, shakes dabs of quicksilver out of the insides and eats them. "It was 'baker's bread'-what the quality eat; none of your low-down corn-pone." Huck is joined by Tom and Joe and together they speculate on how Bill Turner, drowned the summer before, was found by loaded loaves. Tom says its not so much the bread that found the body, or the quicksilver either, but some incantations that were said over them...
...divine, the result hardly justifies such a high origin. So far the revelations from above have merely led him to discover hundreds of commercial compounds made from the lowly potato, the peanut, and the clay of the South. The prayer of the South to have the monotony of corn pone and "side of hawg" replaced by more palatable dishes is being answered through the black magic of Dr. Carver; and if that is not divine it is at least commendable...
...team of oxen. These stones are said to have historic associations with the founding of the college, having been used in the mill in which was ground the corn eaten by the first president of Yale. The historian further informs us that he who has never tasted "pone" bread made from the corn-meal ground in the old-fashioned water mills has missed the greatest of body-building foods, the food upon which throve the husky pioneer of colonial days. By the ancient method was retained all the valuable ingredients that made the flour nourishing, and that are carefully removed...
...vitamins. The connection between these two facts could not be more obvious. We no longer wonder why such deference was shown to a careful of old stones; for these stones are to be set up in the heart of the college to grind the corn that will make the "pone" which will make Yale athletes grow strong again...