The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-08-02
1IsHEs OF EUROPE.
The Cookery and Wines of Italy,
France and Spain.
!. TIVE LAND OF MAcARoNi.
49,. i Used-Itaiian Cooking In
s-..s.h Food Prepared with
r...,. snd Rancid Olive Juice.
,sas nME. W. Sherwood.

# ccuvrsrht. 1891, b y y w. Sherwood.
1s,-s,,,s how Knight retain all the pre-
- - - h~srr thing 81 dsiicste style ieI
go ~ - nsms Of - man. Whe1nef &c Il
Konsn. ,,..a = ruix honey with strong Fall
Alnoi.n ass,sasrsrs5y The Lucrine muscle 10
eE1s.s fhss. ne rsIsu mnrex Inc BEST oysters
beSNr go - fsrceau promontory. clayfsh
eozae ,tola me soft Tsrentum pluTnes
tfon - - ~ 5rosd eseallops- Let no one pre-.
bsfsesl - - rYexase 70 himself the science of
sn,,.ssIsr ssless The nice doctrine Of taste.
las - ssrsep away q parcel OF fishes from
spoa 1870 stall ignorant OF what sauce is
moi <esr from Umbria which has been fed
- srofns OF the scarlet oak bless the
49, - 6sEss.--sasisx Of Horace, Fourth Satire
s,.Issn cookery i excellent at its best
~. SINE drift of talent, due sense of
.-arortion. which showed itself in all
.Ss;r arf. which built st. Marco and the
Duono. the Ducal palace. the Rialto and
- churches Of Palladio. comes out in
sbrsr cookery. Their cooks are Michael
lnrelo and Leonardo da Ninci in an
humber sphere
they mingle cheese in cookery with
s,ess effect: nothing can be better than
sh,;r eznlifower, covered with Parmesan
$500 and baked. Macarona in all its
<,.~s ii of course. admirable They have
rstered the use of sweet oil, which in
ar cookery never tastes oily il is simply
I lxubent richness.
The great dish. wild boar, treated with
! srWs and sour sauce, with pine cones. Is
q .rcellent dish. Wild boar is a lean
pork with game flavor. All sorts of birds.
expecially beccafico, are well cooked, they
1ose no Juice or flavor over the fire.
They make q dozen preparations of
Indian meal, which are very good for
breakfast. One little round cake like a
mufdn tastes almost like cocoanut; this is
fried in oil, and is most delicious.
The frittala is another well-known dish,
and i composed of liver bacon and birds,
Al pinned on long stick or iron pin.
In IN Italian palace. if you have the
eood LACK TO be asked. the dinner is hand
some. in twelve courses, and served in the
Russian manner. and if national dishes
are offered they are disguised as inelegant
But at an ordinary farm house in the hills
near Florence. or at the ordinary hotels.
there wiz be good soup, trout fresh from
the brooks. fresh butter, macaroni with
cheese. o fat capon and delicious omelet,
enriched with morsels of kidney or fat
bacon. frittala, a bunch of grapes, a
bottle Of pogiosecco or the sweet Italian
Straw vine.
Bat the Italians are very frugal and
would consider the luxurious overflow
Of American munificent hospitality as
vulgar.
At parties in Rome, Naples and Flor
ence 1t is not considered proper to offer
much refreshment. At Mr.. Story's de-
lxhtful receptions American hospitality
rsigned at afternoon tea, as it did at all
houses where the hostess was American,
bat at the houses of the princes nothing
was offered but weak wine and water and
little cakes.
Many travellers have urged that the
! cookery of the common Italian dinner is
100 much favored with garlic, but in a
winter spent in travelling through Italy /
did not find it so. / once remember a
leg Of lamb with beans which had slight
taste as of onions. but that is all They
have learned, as the French have. that the
onion is to cookery what accent is TO
speech. 1t should not be ''trop pro-
nonncee. " The lamb and pistachio nuts
b delicious
nts give you in an Italian country
hcas Tor breakfast lat II o'clockl sort of
thick soup, very savory, probably made of
chickens with an herb-like okra, then one
dish OF meat smothered In beans or toma-
toes, then huge dish of macaroni. with
cheese, or with morsels of ham through it,
Then white eurd with powdered CHINA
mon, sugar and wine, a bottle of Fino
Sanfe. cup of coffee or chocolate, and
bread Of phenomenal whiteness and light
ness.
Alas for the poor people! They live
on the chestnuts. the frogs, or nothing.
The porter al the door Of some great
house is seen eating dish of frogs
which are, however, SO well cooked
that they send up an appetizing fra
GRANGE more like a stew of crabs than
anything else. One sees, sometimes. a
massive ancient house towering IN in
medieval grandeur, with shafts OF marble
and columns of porphyrv, lonely, desoIate
and beautiful, infinitely impressive, inf
nisely grand. Some member of a once
ninstrious family lives within these ruined
walls, on almost nothing. He would have
70 XII his pet falcon to give you dinner.
while around his fime-honored house clus-
YER his tenants. shaking with malaria, male.
unhappy, starved people. 1t is not a cheer
III sight. but II happens in Southern Italy
bai the prosperous Italians will give YOU
A*sil-cooked meal and an immense GUAM
~ q oon-bons, the most exquisite can
alea ruit; their cosafetfi is wonderful their
CAKES and ices, their eandied fruit, their
tatn fruit, are beyond all others.
Ihey crown every feast with 4 Paradise
~ spun sugar.
hut they despise and fear FIRE. For
elshers are apt 70 lind the old Italian
psaaees dreary and very cold. A recent
traveller writes from Florence: ii have
eesh within the walls of five Italian houses
evening parties; at three of them, music
ana no conversation; ali except one held
eesd rooms, the floors black. irnper-
'ee'ay covered With drugget and no IRE:
sVAssfsation 10 me, a. least. very dull: the
,op'es' music, personal slanaer--for re-
"e'"us government and literature were
se"ef Aiy excluded from polite society
III oii1s one house. and that of which the
Nas German. was tea handed
49, s'lasafaes not even cup of water
vas passed. We learn from The novels Of
marion crawford thar the Italians do not
Often ear ih each others houses
Victor Emmanuel. the - -al..
We mighty hunter, had ,,,5,h,,. ..,.'1
ute. He used TO dine slana -
hour for the state ainner tn s.le
IN 9 ~, "a n nan, leaning on its jeweled hit
or1ers, the king sat al the hess - - VIZ. WI
sna TAXED with his guests while ~ 80 sa1.e
sp.endia dinner was served. ''e fe>'4iy
hoyal oanqueis are said to he dan IT,
rssehSs 81 : m2n 50 much above 80
o'aers has depressing effect. TIE 60, ~.
49, console himself with the glar;>,ss