Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1884-11-12
Paris Beats the World

San Eoglishman thinks Lucullus
suns with Iucullus when he dimes ex-
c.usivelv with himself and has enough
hol!ed meat set before him to feed
Swiss regiment. BE calls 1t living, A
Frepchman imagines, with dozen lit
tie dishes of dainty food served up In
t;szz'ing rapidity, that only the French
know now to live. while the American,
with plenty of money, demands style
and is willing TO pay Cor If mixed, half
EneIish and half French. At least that
is NV experience" said an American
tourist who has spent several years ID
Europe and has dined at nearly every
principal hoteI on the continent to
reporter,
81 remember" " he continued, "several
years ago dined at Palals Royal res
taurant in Pans for an experiment. L
wanted TO see how cheaply one could
live and live decently, as l had heard
80 tnuch about it. The restaurant was
crowded, but l was waited on with dis
patch. Soup, fish, meat, course OF
vegetables. dessert and a bottle OF VINE
comprised my meal. / paid TOR 1t
tyenty-three cents. 1t was really as
topisbipg. Tne meat and fish were
fresh and the vegetables very good.
The vine I confess was not the best,
out still of good quality. i made up
NV mud to try regular twenty-five
cent dinner when | returned to New
Yolk and notice the difference. / did
so. / went 70 a BOwery r stauranJ
wbsrs meals were advertised for %
cents. | was waited on after a while.
TIE SOUP was scarcely more than warm
water. the meat WAS simply eGecrable,
and what vegetables were served were
not eatable at all. No wine was given,
hut instead weak substitute for coffee.
OF course there is no comparison TO be
made, In France a man With extremely
moderate means can live in a style that
would be arstocratic to an American in
like circumstance
Then yoU mean To say that for re-
spectacle. cheap living Paris beats the
world ?"
YES, I do. But with cheap living it
eLds. for there Is very little difference
when II comes TO first class hotels and
fashionable restaurants. They sll
charge enormously, and serve different
IN. In England everything is boiled
mutton o. roast beef.
90 The English eat so much meat,
isn't II tar superior TO American
meats =
No. American beef Is Just as good
and because / am an American | think
Il 4 little better. My conclusion is that
among the wealthy classes the Ameri-
cans are better livers than the French
or English, simply because they do not
eat TOO much meat or burden the table
with a thousand little dyspeptlc dishes,
but pursue a moderate, medium course
which Is conducive to health and long
evIty."
BY gar. ze Americaine is ze next to
Ze F-enchman when zey eat" said the
c6CJ cook Of the Astor House, who has
been in America fourteen years, plying
his vacation as head cook IN the large
ho'els. He thinks the Americans
understand how to eat in more enjoys-
ble and better style than the English.
He complained that the English were
too fond of meats and needed more
delicscies TO Offset these heavy dishes.
The Americans, he asserted, were more
cosmopolitan in their apI cities (he e1-
planned that he meant by the cosmo-
politan appetite a wise selection from
the menu) and came nearer being
F'reuchmen than any other nationality
in similarity of eating. He put France
aheai Of the United States in cooking
and serving up.
Mr. F4raud thInKs that the Ameri-
cans know how to eat better than Eng
Iishmen. HIS reason for this opinion is
that every prominent motel throughout
the Un,teG States has French cooks,
,.uu has therefore educated the people
IN a measure to the standard of the
French taste and style.
Mr.. R4nhofer, chCf, has been IN
America twenty-eight years. He says
the English live better than the Ameri-
cans, aud cheaper. Their meats are
much better Than ours, he asserts. He
says the French cooks the English en-
ploy have nothing specially to do but
20 supeiintend a special big dinner now
and then, while here the chef, French
or no French, has personally to be
present and superlntend the cuisine de-
partmept every day. He says high
living costs as much In France and
England as in the United States that
IN extremely cheap and reasonable
eating France cannot be surpassed.