The Key West Citizen

COLLEGE NOTES
By CYNTHIA PEARLMAN
(Special Tallahassee Correspondent of The Citizen)

TALLAHASSEE, Dec. 28.

Cooking for 1,750 students at Florida State College is no small job.

Here at the state college which has the largest kitchen in Florida, and one of the largest in the entire South, food is bought by the crate, hundred weight, or gallon.

The entire kitchen, electrically equipped since 1932, is three stories high and approximately 128x65 feet. Its floor space would cover half an acre.

A typical breakfast at this mammoth eating place includes: 250 dozen biscuits, 24 pounds of coffee, 15 crates of grapefruit, and about 200 pounds of bacon.

Special diets are furnished at slight extra charge to overweight or underweight students, or other needing medical diet service, who obtain a diet prescription from the college physician.

It takes about 100 pounds of sugar, 90 pounds of butter, and 165 gallons of milk daily, among other quantities of food to keep the college girls in calories.

Dish-washing requires the full time of 13 men who wash around 20,000 pieces of china a day, 14,500 pieces of silverware, and 4500 pieces of glassware. It takes two and a half hours for one meal's dish-washing.

The college does all its own baking and makes its own ice cream.

Milk comes from the college dairy. From 100 to 150 loaves of bread are used a day and when cookies are served 3200 must be provided for a meal.

The college maintains a store-room below the kitchen where food is kept in large quantities. Gallon cans of fruit and vegetables are stored here.

The state college kitchen and dining hall also provides a training school for student dietitians.

This college has the distinction of being the first educational institution in the South and one of three in the entire country offering student dietetic training in administrative food work.

The college dining hall's main floor is 202x50 feet. The dining hall is of Gothic type architecture and is lighted by handsome Gothic lantern type fixtures.