The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1880-11-11
INTERNATIONAL FOOD EXHIBI-
TION.

hhC 4Aaily 10 at
present the scene of an exhibition of an
entirely novel character, to which the
wide but not too comprehensive name of
International Food Exhibition has been
given by its promoter, Mr.. John Black.
1t is display of the multitudinous food
products of Europe, America, aud Aus
tralia, and has been designed mainly with
view OF bringing under the notice of the
English public many varieties of preserv.
ed meat, fish, vegetables, and fruit, to-
gether with the best methods of prepar-
ing them for the table. In addition to
this there is large collection of culinary
and domestic apparatus of the most ap-
proved and ingenious kinds. There are
altogether 300 exhibitors, whose stalls
fill the whole body of the hall, and as
these are not only interesting in them
selves but are arranged, for the most
part, with much taste, a striking and
picturesque effect is obtained. In timed
products the London Times says that
America naturally takes the lead. The
exhibition teens with her preserved
meats, fish, fruits, and vegetables
Australia is poorly represented, having
nothing to show but her familiar beef
and mnfton tins, but thin unfortunato
circumstance is accounted for by the
fact that this exhibition was thought of
OILY few months ago, and that Austral-
ian producers consequently have had no
time to put in an appearance. England
excels in the mechanical depar tment,
which forms, perhaps, the most interest
ing and instructive part of the exhibition.
The Continental 'exhibits," for the same
reason as the Australian ones, are poor.
They are only thirty in number, consist
chiefly of wines, sardipes, and preserved
fruits. In walking through the exhibi-
ton one is struck by the infinity of uses
to which gas is applied. 1t acts as the
motive power in most of the machines,
and it seems entirely to have superseded
coal in the more complicated cooking
stoves and ranges. One remarkable ap
paratus is the "Crown" heater. BY turn
ing tap of cold water into a compare
lively small cylinder, which is so arrang-
ed inside as to present large heating
surface, one obtains continuous stream
of boiling water. The timed meat is not
without rival in the London market
The variety of timed products is amaz-
ing. One firm exhibits as many as 200
sorts, the great majority of which are
entirely unknown to the ordinary English
housewife. Some ingenuity, of course,
has been displayed in obtaining this var
iety, which embraces such bizarre pre-
parations as ''curried kangaroo" and
''roast thrush;" but most of the tins are
such as would commend themselves to
the English palate. The exhibition was
fomality inaugurated by luncheon, to
which about fifty or sixty gentlemen in
terested in the food question were invit.
ed. The menu was entirely composed of
preserved provisions, and, with the e1-
ception of some of the vegetables, which
seemed lacking In flavor, and the timed
beef, which apparently no gravies, how
ever cunningly devised, can efectually
disguise, was q remarkable success. The
''turtle' was from Jamaica. The other
soups were very good; so were the fish,
the corned beef, the fowl, and the peas.
As for the fruit, it was delicious; it even
seemed to have improved in flavor by
being potted. The pine apple could not
have been excelled, the fact being that
that fruit Is preserve after it attains a
degree of ripeness and lusciousness which
would render it unfit for expectation.