Foods and Household Management: A Textbook of the Household Arts

"Foods and Household Management: A Textbook of the Household Arts" by Helen Kinne is a complete guide to running a household and mastering culinary skills, written for early 20th-century readers. The manual explains how to handle food, covering how it's made, ways to cook it, and keeping it clean. It also tackles how to manage money and buy things for the home. Designed for both students and homemakers, the book starts by pointing out the challenges modern housekeepers have with food compared to the past. It talks about "food problems," highlighting the need to know how to choose, prepare, and keep food safe, all while being smart about money, especially with changing times and lots of different foods available. The first parts of the book stress knowing about food, what's in it, and how that helps in planning meals and using household resources wisely.