The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-05-12
TWO GREAT KITCHENS.
,,rRE THE FOOD Is COOKED IN
THr MOST FAoIOUs REsTAu-
RANTS N AMERICA.

IL
- careful Yankee Housewife.
I,.,nonico's Charming Old smoke
.-tued Cook Room "a Very busy
\ place.
FROM the New York Herald.
- story Of a kitchen. but it will
III go many other folks besides house
il will sound like a fairy tale here
.,.rs. reminding one Of the wonder
81 -+.-rs that immortal cooks accom-
IL ss5 for favored princes Of the Ara
IL Nisnts-with the difference that this
IS true There are few. if any,
MAGICAL business places in the land
r-a wonderful kitchens of the Wald-
and Delmonico's. two OF the most
.7gs restaurants in America. Here
rsrv wonders are done daily in the
s,rouchalant manner imaginable, quite
matter Of course-ass indeed. they
How do all these hundred or more
/ IL tiers get their. complicated orders at
n iei TO promptly in one kitchen without
| Il king us wait unduly or getting things
81 xei up?'
This question is heard a dozen times
II around the tables of the Waldorf res
Il RI
II l. they do. but as a fact the feat
"A oves not a hard one when you go down
"A airs and see how il is done. But grant
"a u that from the patrons standpoint
H is difficult enough to understand; for
II ough 500 pers ons may be dining at once,
Il having given complicated orders, and
Tough every one or two or three or four
I'd av have ordered differently, yet each
ttmpIeteness and care as If the entire kit
rken were placed at its particular serv-
ID and all the other parties were of sec
ondary Importance. Many have wonder
ed at this, but the thing is easy enough,
as we shall see by visit TO the kitchen.
Nov, the kitchen of the Waldorf Is one
OF the most interesting places in New
Xbrk city IL is a good deal of a paradox
ia while it seems at first glance a verita-
ia temple OF disorder with It's innumera-
bIe cooks, dishWashers and attendants, its
m yriad WATERS rushing 1rantically from
Cd unter 10 counter, grabbing dishes appar-
u tly hit or miss. its incOmprehensible
81 bel of shouted orders, and its amazing
assortment of savory odors unsaVorily
"a mbincd with the smell of boiling dish
Nis, IL IS in fact marvel of order
IL system.
It would be a revelation. too, to those
Estrustful ladies who are prone to shake
"A er heads knowingly, and say that 1t Is
Vel for the appetite that we don't see
EhNhlAS VI WHAT We eat al nOtelS.
The fact of the matter Is that these
h tehens are among the cieanest spots /
yer saw in my life. No New England
Inware is brighter than its copper mans
Do kettles: no spotless New England
housewife is more scrupulOus in dress and
laws than those linen aDroned French
epoks' and in no private kitchen was ever
Bod prepared and cooked and served
Hith more eXacting scrupulousness and
eater attention 10 Clearly and delicate
Getail.
T,eapfta tho eN,+roroe hoo. e a. -,
~ cocktail could be better appetizer than
3rief anteorapdial visit to this remark
Imagine We Yankee housewives, a kitch-
with forty-twO cooksi No ordinary
4poks are these. either, for the least skill
al OF them draws salary of s75 a month
And from that wages increase to 500 a
HonlA me salary of the chef. Imagine a
kltchen divided into eight departments
zen under its own lesser chef, and in adj
Il ton TO these numerous cooks innumera-
i otler persons-men who spend lives
pairing potatoes, dish washers. silver
dhers, butter workers, tea and coffee
akers and the like.
A more vivid idea of the magnitude of
hJcnen IS got from the fact that it
@)slS N-,bO month for wages alone and
rs does not include the pastry cooks
pdftment or the wine cellar, or the pur-
passing department, or the refrigerating
pdftment or the stOrerooms, or the
N1lttrs. 1t does not even include the chefs
Altogether the Waldorf pays $4,000 a
o1th IN wages simply to those who have
10 WIN securing, preparing and serv-
the 1000 and wines that are ordered
ON ITS rooms and restaurant
oegln the story of it at the beginning
preparations for each days food sup
,. are begun to be made the morning
Az these new supplies are ordered at .
CIock IN the afternoon from agents of
various butchers, grocers, fish deal
d ana q otner tradesmen, who come to the
- Tor the purpose
ne provisions begin to come in at
"a , eCoIs me me next morning: Dozens Of
osuus dfiNe to the door, and the supplies
carried INTO the Easement There they
~ inspected Every fowl and piece Of
- - carefully weighed and examined
VI Every lot OF groceries sampled The
dihlhers are critical to the last degrees
5oSe n{percrltical in matters of poultry
,i iigdt-and every article that is not
- very freshest and finest is returned.
Wo or three failures TO SUNNY tbe very
,ScINe 70 erect the erasure of a trades
H. a. name from the hotel list, and this
- o. punishment is nightly effective
Pr me Patronage of the waldorf is so
oilSSluerable that, as can be imagined
adeshleh make great efforts rather than
III III RISK of losing it,
Inc days supplies of all kinds of food
80 80 red before the sun is fairly IN
ne manager goes to market in person to
ea 81 SPECIAL delicacies and dainties out
a me 1000 is then prepared by skilful
<, |tLs. Inc joints are washed and cut and
tov'31 Inc steaks are trimmed The
<0 0"iS are cleaned and made ready for
pa9elns and broiling. The vegetables are
Hre made ready. "isnes
,le go sIOcerles are sent into the grocery
= III - llent-which, by the way, contains
: edter variety of goods than the larg-
H., - sI9cery houses in the country. as Is
EareIu by fhe fact that dav
@-els passes that one or two of the big
MI 40 not send around to ask for
~ eIii supply of some rare grocery that
r. p ~ uo not Keep in stock to enable them
v..SSNor some special customer.
f. tieH Lle meats and fowl are preDare,i
- are sent into the cool meat rooms''
i W. I6e orators, which, when we'll filed
LILY most appetizing places to en-
IT, Here the meats are stored in GUAM
ana sent to the retail stores in
a Htlchen as wanted 1t is from the re-
4 looks 80 'ioh Is ihdoe TO the
n5 5 i4G9ch Tor preparations Now let us
W. ne kitchen proper, say at Z O'Clock.
r, ulnner IS just we'll under way.
49, % a hlgh-ceiled basement room of
dimensions. Along one side is a
%nG W ovens and broilers reaching from
=, -" ~ 10 END of the room and presided ove-
i h -oo!ttsy-twto white-aproned cooks Along
M Vthef side are arranged dish-washerS
4 IN ~ helpers and men who prepare vege-
-, clean silver, make and serve tea
~ -oHee and the like