"In the first thirteen years of the food was cheap and plentiful, ... and the development of and which had come about in the latter part of the nineteenth century permitted a great variety of fare. But, in spite of this plenty, inquiry showed that for the most part the lower-paid workers were then considerably under-nourished, the better-paid just sufficiently nourished and the upper classes over-nourished. Though low wages explained to a great extent the under-nourishment, lack of knowledge of what to buy and how to cook it was, as it still is, responsible for some of the malnutrition both of the rich and of the poor."
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Constance Peel
(née Constance Dorothy Evelyn Baliff; published as Mrs. C. S. Peel and Dorothy Constance Peel; 27 April 1868 – 7 August 1934) was an English journalist, editor, women's rights activist, novelist, memoirist, and author of non-fiction books on inexpensive methods of and . In 1919 she was appointed (OBE).
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