Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-06-26
THE FOOD OF GENIUS.
Bessie Bramble Expects Great
Things of German Cook
ing at the Fair.
WHAT PHILOSOPHERS EAT,
And the Musical Capabilities of Lager
Beer and Sauerkraut
EFFECT OF BEEF on ENGLISHhEN.
Our Women Will Not Endure the Drudgery
of the Faderland.
SUGGESTIONS FOR A PITTSBURG SHOW
WHAT PHILOSOPHERS EAT,
EFFECT OF BEEF ON ENGLISHNEN.
Our Women Will Not Endure the Drudgery
of the Faderland.
SUGGESTIONS FOR A PITTSBURG SHOW
WRITTEN FOR THE DISPATCH. !

Worlds Columbian Exposition next year
10 most women, will be a full furnished
German kitchen, and an exhibition of the
method of housekeeping and cooking in
Germany. The women, held in subsection
and under the protection of pompous young
Emperor Wilhelm, are world famous as
housekeepers and good cooks-in what is
jeeringly called, in this country, 'the Dutch
stvle." Boiled meat and sauerkraut, and
liverwurst and rye bread are not largely ap.
preciated by American taste, but it may be
shown at the Exposition that these, and
other German dishes NAV be prepared in
such delightful and appetizing fashion that
the health and strength to be found in their
consumption NAV recommend them to the
people of this country.
Americans, we are told, are too fond of
rich food. They are too extravagant in their
tastes They have yet to learn that in
economy there is wealth. They have yet to
discover the virtues of sauerkraut and
smoked sausages, and black bread and lager
beer.
As presented in picture this German
kitchen is great contrast to these ideal
American kitchen. 1t presents features
that have gone out of fashion in this coun-
try to a large extent. Some of these may be
seen, however, in old-time glory in the
ascetic homes of economy, where too, .may
be sampled the German cooking SO largely
praised.
Food That Appeals to Stern Stomachs.
The slabs of boiled meat, the great dishes
OF sour cabbage the huge ginger cakes,
these appeal to the stomachs of sterner
stuff than those of English descent. That
such diet tends to righteousness seems es-
tablished by results No Law and Order
Society Is needed to enforce morality and
tobriety in economy, though each member
OF the community receives quart of wine
every day. 1t may be that such stimulus
is needed to secure the proper digestion of
German cooking, or to make glad the heart
OF man that he has worried it down.
After all is said, however "the proof of
the pudding Is in the eating, and it may
be that when the national dishes of Ger
many are served up at Chicago there will
be wholesale conversion to their excel
lence and economy in the American mind.
Is il may even be shown scientifically that the
profound thinking powers of German phil
osophers, the sturdy good sense of the ma
lority of the German people and the stay
ing powers of its grand army may be due to
the diet and cookery of the country. 1t
NAV be that upon such cooking are Frede-
ricks and Goethes grown. No more pro-
found thinkers are to be found than those of
Germany; no more advanced scholars
men of science than those of Will
helms empire; no deeper-dyed in or
thodnxy than the theologians of Luther's
country; no more gifted with genius than
the great masters of music who found in
ham and sausages and rye bread and beer
their daily food
The Food for the Musician.
Handel, Havdn, Mozart, Mendelssohn
rose to lame upon German cookery. Kant
Hegel, Liebnitz and Comte grew up on
Clutch" living Encke, Liebig, Niebuhr,
Humboldt were brought up on fare distin-
guished in this country by sauerkraut and
pretzels. horner, INLAND, Schiller. Goethe
made great names in the world upon diet
that the French regard with horror, as
coarse and akin to barbarism.
What relation there is between German
cookery and genius has not yet received the
attention of science, but doubtless in Chi
cagO the effect upon the human mind of sour
cabbage, Rhine wine, book beer and all
that go with them will be plainly shown in
the finest form. Locke's great essay on the
Human Understanding" gave no informa-
tion as to the proper diet for the cultivation
and production Of brains, but a study of
German cookery NAV bring out some great
truths upon this point. Handel, the i'm
mortal composer of 1.-The Messiah" loved
ham and beer-what is the connection be-
tween them and genius? Mozart and Men,
delssohn had kindred tastes This German
cookery subject widens the more it is con-
sidered. The virtue Of sausages as che stay
OF heroes was demonstrated in the French
and German War, where Napoleon I'LL and
the French with their finer tastes and more
elaborate cookery went under.
MANY Creeds but Only One Gravy
1t is the reproach of America, from q
Frenchman's standpoint that we have any
number of creeds and sects, but only one
gravy. This gravy subject should be investi-
gated How the Germans rank as to gravy is
nos generally known, but down deep in the
protundity of the subject of cookery NAV be
found the reason that America has not as
vet given to the world Shakespeare, a
Goethe, an Adam Smith, a Humboldt, an
Isaac Newton, a Schopenhauer or an Au-
Custe Comte. The Worlds Fair will
doubtless let light into this matter.
With a knowledge of the food upon
which great men grow, definition of
genius NAV be found, and a formula for
great minds laid out. A knowledge of the
TODD and management of plants enables a
gardener to do great things, and even what
seems miracles to those devoid of knowl-
edge. Milton says, ''SmiIes are the food of
love Would it not benefit the world to
know the food upon which the virtues of
mankind are founded? Somebody has said
that 'The man who drinks beer thinks
beer" This would seem to indicate that
the sublime masterpieces of Mozart, Men
delssohn, Beethoven ct al were the outcome
OF beer, and that the talents of Bismarck
and Wagner and the other German big guns
had au underlying foundation of beer and
limburger and "krout"
Popular Jokes About Nationality.
The bullheadedness and braggadocio of
the British is set down 10 roast beef and ale
and plum pudding; the aggressiveness and
pugnaclty OF the Irish to "pittaties and
salt, and Irish whisky" the ''softness" of
the Scotch, to oatmeal and Scotch whisky.
All these points NAV come up as the result
of the exhibit OF German cooking at Chi
cago W hat amazing possibilities and per-
picking questions may come of it only high |
heaven knows!
However, the German kitchen will be |
sight The ceiling is cross-beamed in hard |
wood. Around the walls are inscriptions |
in German which would strain our powers |
OF translation. A triple window fills up one |
end with wide ledge upon which rests an |
imposing pot of flowers. No curtains, no |
shades, no shutters obscure the lIght-only |
a pleated lambrequin at the top takes of the |
baroness. Immense carved dressers. or
cupboards, take up one side, ap-
parentIy filled with china ware
and silver of every description
and kind. High upon the wall is shelf