Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-08-18
of an English Epicure

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scious of want in their national calin-
airy resources. Years ago, when | was
slipping my vermoth one day in cafe
on the Boulevards, a lean Yankee sat by
my side at little table discussing
mutton-chop. After he had carefully
picked the whole of the available mate
rial off the bone, he held up the remnant
with his fork, and observed to me with the
charming familiarity Of his iatherland,
II take it that this is the only thing that
your country raises which my country
can't lick Without wholly indorsing
the negative portion of this striking
apophthegm, am fully prepared to ac-
quiesce in its positive statement.
An American cannot produce a NUT
ton-chop. But if the great continent is
weak in meat it makes up for its deticien-
cy by it's richness in vegetables. No
where in the world and my gastronomi-
cal experiences have been many and vari
ed-have l found such excellent fruits,
pulses, tubers, or salad greens as in the
! Northwestern States and Canada. Our
ordinary English garden stuf-peas,
beans, cabbage, caulihower, asparagus,
sea kale, lettuce, and celery-grows far
more abundantly and lusciously there
than in Europe. The peas and asparagus
especially, are beyond all praise tender,
| melting, succulent and gigantic withal.
Tomatoes load the table at every meal;
either sliced, cold and dressed like a
salad, or stewed as only New England
/ and Canadian cooks can stew them.
. Then, in addition to these familiar old
l friends, better here than in their Eastern
5 homes, number OF new luxuries await
: the inquiring palate. Indian corn forms
| in itself memorable epoch in the cpl
s cures life. It is picked SCREEN" that is
to say, young and tender-for the color
is a pale yellow-and after being boiled
: or roasted, is eaten with copious supply
a Of that delicious butter that goes without
t the saying in America. Delicate minded
n people cut off the grains from the 'scob'
with knife, which wastes half the con
e tents and spoils all the flavor: but ordi
Y nary bodies hold the cob boldly in one
# hand GARNER folks going even to thu
J. length OF two, gnaw off the succulen
n grain as dog gnaws bone.
IS Not graceful performance, certainly
IS but very effectual: and as to the gustator.
|, result, think green corn may fairly b.
e elevated on to the same lofty pedestal o
J. vegetable excellence with asparagus anc
/ top artichokes. The egg-fruit, too, yield
d another new sensation-a deep, purple
|. skinned, melon shaped object sliced uhicl
e and nicely fried in bread-crumbs. Swee
; potatoes, vans and similar Southern pro
If ducts, brought up by rail from the Caro-
b, liDas, swell the list. In short, while th
e Americans have all our vegetables il
greater perfection than ever can be at
tanned at home, they have great man
other delicious species to which we ar
total strangers. Moreover, by cunningl
r combining and ringing the changes o
10 all their vegetables, the cooks produc
re several excellent mixtures such as s {
re cotash, melange of Indian corn an
is beans, admirably adapted for the final
of breakfast.
IN Furthermore, being prone to follow tn
I'd customs of France in all good things, the
Of always observe the laudable practice {
i'd serving vegetables on separate plate,
ot that each convive may be seen surrounde
Irs with a semi-circle of little dishes, COZ
,er tanning great melting peas, stringle
50 haricot beans, suave tomatoes, or snow
NO broccoli. In this way neither does Il
on gravy spoil the de,icacy of the vegetable
no nor do such stronger iavors as that OF t
ne mato drown and overpower the specif
we sapidity of the meat. Our English Gu
wn tom of leading slices from the joir
IL. sauces, vegetables, and condiments on
single plate is decidedly a grosser sur1
val from earlier ages which the spread
lv Darwinism and the couss of 'scontempor
: ry evolution" ought speedily to swe'