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“The product was used as an extender in meat loaves,
hamburgers, soups, hot breads, and desserts.” Address: 1.
Consultant dietitian; 2. Prof. of Home Economics and
Supervisor of Food Services, Teachers College, Columbia
Univ., New York City.
83. Buck, Pearl S. 1951. God’s men. New York, NY: The
John Day Co. 375 p. 22 cm.
• Summary: In this fictional work (novel), one of the main
characters (Clem) is based on Clifford Clinton, founder of
the Meals for Millions Foundation. Clem was raised in
China, his father was a missionary, and he had a deep
lifelong interest in helping to relieve human hunger and
starvation. See p. 83, 92, 151, etc.
Pearl Sydenstricker Buck (1892-1973) was the third
American writer (and the first American woman) to win the
Nobel Prize in Literature; she won in 1938 for The Good
Earth.
Her parents, Southern Presbyterian missionaries,
traveled to China soon after their marriage on July 8, 1880.
Pearl was born in West Virginia but raised in China; she
grew up bilingual. In 1911, she left China to attend
Randolph-Macon Woman’s College in Virginia, graduating
(Phi Beta Kappa) in 1914. In 1914, Pearl returned to China.
She married an agricultural economist missionary, John
Lossing Buck, on May 13, 1917. From 1920 to 1933, Pearl
and John made their home in Nanking (Nanjing), on the
campus of Nanjing University, where both had teaching
positions. From 1914 to 1933, she served as a Presbyterian
missionary.
84. Meals for Millions Foundation. 1951. The 3¢ challenge
to world hunger: A 5-year progress report. Los Angeles,
California: Meals for Millions Foundation. 1 vol. (various
pagings totaling 75 pages). 29 cm. *
• Summary: A report in the files of the Meals for Millions
Foundation, Los Angeles. Includes many early reports of the
benefits to malnourished people of consuming MPF.
“Although MFM concentrated upon overseas relief
needs, American Indians in New Mexico, Arizona, Utah,
and California, blizzard victims in South Dakota, Tennessee
school children, migrant workers and indigents in
California, and Los Angeles County tuberculosis patients
were among the Americans who benefitted from MPF
fortified meals during the first five years of the
Foundation’s activities” (Roberts 1967, p. 55-57). Address:
Los Angeles, California.
85. Nasich, Pinchas. 1952. [Letter about vegetarianism in
Israel and the Meals for Millions organization in Los
Angeles]. Vegetarian News Digest (Los Angeles) 2(7):19.
Winter.
• Summary: “There are about 8,000 vegetarians in Israel
and their number is steadily increasing. On the 17th of
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October the Vegetarians of Israel had a meeting in
Jerusalem. There is already a vegetarian settlement in
Mishmar Hashivah. The founding of a new vegetarian
village has begun, also a Vegetarian Home for Children;
also every effort will be made to open vegetarian restaurants
in Jerusalem, Tel-Aviv and Haifa.
“Dear editor, could you kindly induce Meals for
Millions, the Los Angeles organization which produces the
most famous Multi-Purpose Foods, to do their best to sell
their MPF in Israel? There is a great protein scarcity here,
and we vegetarians would like very much to enjoy this food
which is now almost unobtainable in Israel.” Address:
Rishon, LeZion, Israel.
86. Changing Times: The Kiplinger Magazine.1952. Meals
for the hungry, 3 cents each. 6(10):28. Oct.
• Summary: “When you see pictures of miserable little
waifs in Korea, or of the bare-boned hungry in India, you
get a little twinge. You wish there were something you
could do to help, something you could afford.
“There is, indeed–thanks to the efforts of a nonprofit
organization called Meals for Millions, which has devised a
wonderful and inexpensive way for you to provide a person
with a meal. Three cents buys a packet of Multi-Purpose
Food–MPF–a dry soybean meal product that has been
enriched with vitamins. It provides all the nutritive and bulk
requirements of a full meal (excluding vitamin C, which is
unstable when cooked).
“MPF can be cooked with water in 10 minutes and
eaten plain, or added as a nutritious food stretcher to stews,
soup, meat loaf, and other dishes.
“More than 20 million meals have been distributed
throughout the world since Meals for Millions was set up
six years ago by Clifford E. Clinton, Los Angeles restaurant
man, as a ‘practical challenge to world hunger.’
“The address of Meals for Millions Foundation, Inc., is
648 Broadway, Los Angeles 14, California.”
87. Allen, Ida Bailey. 1952. Solving the cost of high eating:
A cookbook to live by. New York, NY: Farrar, Straus &
Young, Inc. viii + 545 p. Index. 22 cm.
• Summary: Chapter 10, “Good bread is good food,”
discusses enriched white bread, and Cornell Bread
(developed by Dr. Clive McCay of Cornell Univ., New
York; it contains soy flour and no adulterating chemicals, p.
94), and gives recipes for: Soy yeast bread (with soy flour,
p. 99-100). Soy muffins (p. 100). Also: Gravy thickened
with soy flour (p. 352).
Chapter 31, titled “Legumes, nuts and brewers’ yeast”
contains a section on “Soybeans” (p. 386-92) with the
following contents: Introduction. Plain-cooked soybeans
(boiled, or pressure cooked if possible). Soybean entrees
(from home-cooked soybeans): Baked soybeans, Savory
soybeans, Baked vegetables stuffed with soybeans, green