The Opelousas courier., 1886-07-31
AMERICAN LIVING.
Contest Between This
Country and Europe. .
Superiority of our Food. Products Both
in Quality and Variety.

One of the commonest and best effects
of foreign travel upon u people IS tt
make them aware of the exceptional
blessedness of their own lot as citizem
of this happy land, and bring them home
more contented than when they left.
In going across the ocean on a Hamburg
steamer, in company with many native,
born Germans going over to revisit the
vaterIand, it wa wonderful to hear them
declare, with united voice, that much az
they loved the old country, they preferred
the new world as a residence. All were
coming back after a few months absence.
The profusion of fruits, vegetables,
and provisions generally enjoyed with us
can never be appreciated fully until after
a heightened %sojourn in foreign lands.
Only think of the void that would be
made in our larders by the absence OF
Just two of our summer vegetables, viz,
corn and tomatoes, and yet this is virtu,
ally the case in Europe. Summer vege-
tables / call them, although by the pro.
cesses of drying and canning they are
now become almost equally plentiful and
indispensable in winter. 1t seemed Sc
strange to be asked by an intelligent lady
in London for a description of Indian
corn as a vegetable, and be requested to
give some idea of how it tasted. At the
same lady's table it was remarked as o
fact not to be disputed that Ito eat fruit
in London was like eating gold"
Sweet-potatoes are also exceedingly rare
and high-priced in England, while in
Germany they are neger seen. In the
latter country green peas are brought to
table, indeed, but generally spoiled by
having carrots chopped up and cooked
with them into a mess that is mawkishly
sweet, and frequently mushy.
With us it is not unusual, in the eoun.
Ty, to see from seven to nine vegetable:
Upon the dinner table at once (all raised
N ones own garden), which to a Euro
beam would seem an uncomfortable extrav
tgance.
The variety of our breads and break
last cakes must be equally amazing tt
foreigners, for cold rolls or brodchen, FIRE.
auently stale at that, come upon the ia
Die from years end TO years end in soil
;ary state, and no n ever seems t
hink change among the things desira
Die or attainable. Truth to tell, tn
German brodchen are excellent an
wholesome; so exceptionally well bake
hat a house-keeper brought a specime
Ill the way acnsypthe ocean to show he
,ook how beautifully Drowned was tn
rust, and how thoroughly done tn
Humb. And yet she despairs of eve
eeing the precise duplicate on u sid
If the ocean. The knowing say this
because of the difference between oil
,toyes and the German brick ovens, til
after being capable of a regular eve
!, leat, the results of which are unattaina
Die by any other heating apparatus.
: While all over the German Empi
f. hey have the like good bread, yet eac
: .ity seems to have its special form of rol
g In Dresden it is much smaller than
Berlin, and, if possible, better, roun'
!, With a division through the middle. Tt
+ 2re-eminence in the manufacture of bref
3 eems given, 10y universal consent,
ii Vienna, therefore to that city it must
conceded; but in all of the good resta
ANTS Of any large German city their ro'
If white bread are faultless to t
Q strangers palate.
r Going from Berlin to London in tN
le Laws, the inferior displays upon t
& sakers, counters there were actually pal
N .nl, through force of contrast. For
re rery basis Of health and good livi
Gems to rest on good bread, and it "
wident that this the poor Londoners q
a lot have. Their loaves looked dal
RS aeavy and coarse, compared to the +
s, lainty brodchen left behind, and
o. ight produced a real sense of discomfo
e But oh, the horrors of the Germ
d slack bread, apportioned to servants a
IL de lower classes generally, which Il
ed actually eat spread with lardl
W The poorest people in America m
leeds be at the point Of starvation,
ed submitting to the rigors of an arctic "
;er, before they could touch Q morsel
~: mch fare.
all We are told that the French peas
counts himself happy if ne a t
meat once a week, and the Italian b
n a fully basks in the sunshine while fed
nd pn a similar meagre diet. While
Try happy people, rich and poor, emplo,
zen ind employed, have flesh in the pot d.
yer accompanied BY vegetables in profu
lies in short, SO varied q bill Of fare
srs. the enumeration of its items is imp
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