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 "To be a good cook means the knowledge of all fruits, herbs, balms, and spices, and of all that is healing and sweet in groves and savory in meats. It means carefulness, inventiveness, watchfulness, willingness, and readiness of appliances. It means the economy of your great-grandmothers and the science of modern chemistry; it means much tasting and no wasting; it means English thoroughness, French art, and American hospitality; it means, in fine, that you are to be perfectly and always ladies (loaf givers), and that you are to see that every to-day has something nice to eat."