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It was devoted to poetry, good fiction, and everything concerning home life from beef to biscuits, and from rugs to roses. "I saw it on a newsstand," said Eileen.
"I was at lunch with some girls who had a copy and they were talking about some articles by somebody named something--Meredith, I think it was--Jane Meredith, maybe she's a Californian, and she is advocating the queer idea that we go back to nature by trying modern cooking on the food the aborigines ate.
If we find it good then she recommends that we specialize on the growing of these native vegetables for home use and for export--as a new industry." "I see," said Linda.
"Out-Burbanking Burbank, as it were." "No, not that," said Eileen.
"She is not proposing to evolve new forms. She is proposing to show us how to make delicious dishes for luncheon or dinner from wild things now going to waste.
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