The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-08-08
A NATIVE BRAZILIAN DELlcAcY
Rash venturing Beyond the Bounds Of
Civilized Cookery.

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Rash venturing Beyond the Bound. Of
Civilized Cookery.
From the New York Tribune.
"Irl have cold roast chicken, IL you can
give me a leg,' said one Of a party of
three young fellows who fell into the
chairs about a small table at a down town
restaurant ON one of those scorching hot
days of July that broke the record at the
signal service bureau and put to shame
the memory of the oldest inhabitant.
'The same here" Rrasped the second.
'I'm too limp even to read the bill OF
fare"
"One thing to eat seems about as good
as another" growled the third, Grossly,
as he mopped the back of his neck and
moved his chair a little, SO a. to get d.
| rectly under the big revolving fans that
threw the hot air in by warm wares all
| about the room. "Give me what theo other
| fellow ordered, SO long as it's cold"
The darkey who waited on them seemed
! about TO speak, but checked himself and
| approached the hole In the partition be.
| hind which the o presided. He gave
his three orders In n low tone OF voice, as
| IL the furnace-like blast from the range
| which came out Of that hole choked him.
But in a second the cooks angry voice
WhS AtCAth u
chicken! l told you to say there were no
more legs. What's everybody wanting
legs for to-day? Tell 'em there's nothing
but breast and wings left"
"Gemmen say they won't have the
white meat his weather." replied the dar.
key, 'they say IL makes 'em thirsty, and
| they've drunk all they carry straight,
| already, trying to keep COOL"
~ can't help that" snapped the cook.
~ can't cut more than two legs oil one
| chicken. Ask them do they al the
earth. DO they think fowls is cent
pedes?"
The indignant reply of the cook made
| the three men laugh, in spite OF he heat
talking of ce~ntipedes," aid one, IRE
| minds me of "a dish / once eat i'm Brazil.
went way up the Amazon one winter
among the wretched Indians there, buy
ing up raw rubber. Several OF us left thu
oat n day and made our way into tht
dense forest to see IL w could shoe any
~toucans. We got lost in short order and
wandered about for a day and a night be
fore we found the little creek in which
our boat lay, and We were only brought
back then by some Indians whom we met
carrying rubber to the river to sell. We
met them just as they were about TO CAM
for the night, n as they promised Il
show US the way out of the forest w
| camped with them.
ave had some timed beef left ant
some whisky, but as l had lived on tinnet
beef and fresh fish for some time and wa,
nightly tired of them both, l was look
ing about for a change of diet and wal
glad to see that the Indians had some M
tive food with them. This consisted o.
some sort of grayish-white paste, thai
looked like n mixture OF snet and 'grits.
/ asked them what IL was, but l could no
understand what they said and our inter
prefer had gone of for water. 1t did no
taste at all bad and the flavor was unlik,
anything ! had ever eaten, SO ! had swal
lowed a bit Of IL about as big a your fis
before he interpreter returned and tolt
me hat the dish was made OF some sor
Of dried root, p~ulverized and mixed will
the crushed bodies Of white ants.
IL did not eat any more"