This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 Excerpt: ... no. 64, p. 601. Bread and meat together comprised 60 per cent of the food consumed by these families; potatoes, coffee, and tea were other staples. Syrups, cheap preserves, and jellies were used to substitute for butter on bread; though fruits were little purchased, apples, pears, and grapes were most popular.1 Among ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 Excerpt: ... no. 64, p. 601. Bread and meat together comprised 60 per cent of the food consumed by these families; potatoes, coffee, and tea were other staples. Syrups, cheap preserves, and jellies were used to substitute for butter on bread; though fruits were little purchased, apples, pears, and grapes were most popular.1 Among the poor generally the menu is characterized by the superlative importance of bread.2 That the Italians of Chicago were not properly nourished was long suspected, because they were considered fit for the lighter forms of manual labor only, because they avoided the hospitals on the ground that they starved in these institutions, and because rickets was very prevalent among their children. The conclusions of the Bureau of Labor were that "it is probable that there are exceedingly few Italians in the city of Chicago who do not spend enough money upon their food to buy sufficient nutriment to keep their bodies in good condition, providing only the money is judiciously spent, and the food properly prepared. Except in rare cases, the Italians certainly eat enough." The fault with their diet is that there is an excess of fuel in the forms of wheat flour, pork, lard, and second-rate green vegetables. Beans, eggs, chicken, and cheese are sparingly indulged in. The large consumption of beer curtails the expenditure for more wholesome foods; the "Italian laborer frequently takes for his lunch only bread and peppers." The cooking is indefensibly uneconomical, and aggravates the malnutrition. Even the children are denied a milk diet and are fed the same unwholesome stuff that is eaten by their elders. Thus, the fault among these Italians is not lack of means to buy food, but unwise expenditure--the consumption of too much fuel and too l...
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