The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.3, page 464, Sept.1894, U. of Illinois Press

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The BOOKER T. WASHINGTON Papers the Council can act on your case. In the meantime you can turn over the Boarding department work to Mr. Diggs,2 and the Commis' sary to Mr. l. N. Calloway. In my mind you are plainly neglecting the work for which you were hired. The idea in getting you was to secure a specialist in the preparation and serving of the food, and one who would give special and personal attention to this work. You are neglecting your duty in these respects: You do not spend enough time in the kitchen to see that the food is properly cooked and served. For example, Saturday morning you did not go into the kitchen at all before the food had been served. Sunday at dinner, the same thing was true. On both of these occasions I was in the kitchen. These are but samples of the neglect. You do not see regularly that the food is rightly apportioned among the tables, and that the dishes and the food present the proper appearance before going into the dining room. All this, as weld as other important matters, is left to irresponsible persons. The kitchen and the room adjoining it are almost never clean. Both this morning arid Saturday there was no, attempt made to clean the room joining the kitchen before the meal began. Old brooms, dirty dish-rags, and many other things are left thrown about without regard to system or cleanliness. The cooks themselves usually present an untidy appearance. An examination shows that the school is losing much every day because of the fact that the meal is not well sifted—a large proportion of it now goes into the slop because of the fact that no one is giving personal attention to the sifting of the meal; and you know you have been spoken to more than once in regard to the same kind of waste in connection with the greens. ~ repeat that your position demands some one who will make an intelligent and thorough study of the preparation and serving of foods, study how to get much out of little, how to vary the preparation of the same kind of food from day to day, so that students will not fee] that they have the same thing all the time. This can only be done by a study of books, papers and other sources of information. The position demands some one who will plan ahead, and fee] a personal responsibility for the whole food question. 464