NATIONAL FOOD ECONOMY LEACH:M.—The National Food Economy League has earned
a wide reputation for its useful publi- cations, particularly for its little Handbook for Housewives, and it has now issued a reprint of the pamphlet War-Time Recipes (Offices of the League, 2 Woodstock Street, Oxford Street, W. 1, 6d.), which has been compiled principally for households whore servants are employed. The booklet represents an attempt to collect only those recipes " that are strictly workable and that also meet, as far as possible, present conditions and needs. Thus no recipes are included which are not economical in the sense that they save food rather than money." Some idea of the excellent work done by the League may be gained from the facts that about three-quarters of a million of its various publications have been sold ; that over two thousand demonstration lectures have been given in London and the Provinces ; and that practically every county and nearly all the principal towns in England have been reached, while much work has been done in Wales and some in Ireland. (Scotland has its own organization.) In its practical demonstrations, which are accompanied by explanatory talks, the League hopes to include advice as to the cooking of the various wild foods of the United Kingdom, and of some of the cheaper foods of foreign countries at present little, if at all, known here. In addition to its other activities, the League has now opened an Information Bureau at 168a New Bond Street, which is intended to act as a clearing-house of all information in matters of food-saving. A member of tho League will be in attendance daily, not only to give all possible help to inquirers, but also to receive information and practical hints in food economy that may be helpful in its work.
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