Baton Rouge tri-weekly gazette & comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1865-18??, 1866-06-07
yGAsTRoNoMY X.

feHcH SCHooi, may EedSouaDiJ NC
regarded as one of the carts pre-
| servative." akin to the fine arts.
Mons. Blot, who turned up in New
York. city, about a year ago and es.
tablished SO successfully school for
teaching the art of cooking, is now
| in Boston giving series Of illustrated
lectures on the art. His bills OF fare
consisting Of potages, relsges, entrees,
entrewets, desserts, etc, or, at least,
his various modes Of preparing these
dishes, are portrayed to his audience
with that degree of skill and savoa'
faire, whichrender his lectures highly
entertaining and instructive, and are
creating the same sensation among
his disciples in Yankeedoodledom as
they did last year among the Goth
antics of Fifth-Avenuedledom.
Mons. Blot is engaged in a good
cause and deserves the success which
seems, to attend his philanthropic ef-
forts. He is essaying to impress
upon the minds of his pupils and
mankind in general the wholesome
truth that good living, by which he
means properly prepared food, is a
matter of very important consideration
to all who prize good health, corpo-
real development and general comfort
as blessings worthy to be coveted and
sought after. In fine, Mr.. Blot, is
one those sagacious philosophers who
entertains the principle and seeks to
inculcate it in others, that by taking
care of the stomach the stomach will
take care of the person. BY this he
would pander not to the horse leech
cravings of that animal tribe of
commands whose morbid appetites
seem increasingly to cry out "give,
givew but to the more delicate
gustatory organs of that more mod
est tribe-the gouqnaettes-- who do
not "bolt their food and chew it af-
terwards," or live, as it were, merely
for the sake of eating.
The st. Louis Republican in an
article upon the subject Of cookery,
let's fall some clever hints, which we
copy, as follows:
A frst-rate cook is rare benefac-
tor of the human species. Healthy
digestion is indispensable, alike to
health bodily and health mental
But healthy digestion is impossible
for stomach deranged and oppressed
by i'll cooked viands. An axle coated
with sand and gravel cannot be ex-
pected to turn as easily as one lubri-
Gated with oil. We have said moth
ing about the pleasures Of the palate,
which are of some Importance, and
all the more so for the probability
that the most nourishing food is such
as we eat with the most relish.
We Americans enjoy the reputa-
ton of possessing the best materials
for gratifying the palate and building
up the human frame, while we have
the unenviable distinction of making
the worst use of them. We believe,
however, that domestic experience
shows that we have some very good
cooking in this country But for
the preparation of food in manner
which combines the desiderata of ex-
cellence and economy, French cooks,
who are deservedly styled artists in
their profession, are doubtless unri-
vailed. They have given the fame
to France of very satisfactorily sup
plying the defect Of having only one
religion by the invention Of fifty diff
ferent soups. They can teach our
housewives much which they ought
to know of the culinary art. And it
is, therefore, with satisfaction that we
find distinguished professor Of this
art, Mons. Blot is, by course of ex-
perimental lectures, giving such of
our countrywomen as desire to be in
structed in manner of such utility
the opportunities ofprofting by his
ample experience, knowledge and
skill. He has visited New York and
Boston; and his visits are much
needed, and would be as welcome, in
the Western as in the Eastern cities.
With such manipulations and pro-
cesses as Professor Blot teaches, and