The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-08-02
strange vIANDs FOR MAN.
...,on of Geography on What Is
Good 10 Eat"
rron the New York Press,

Good TO LAT.
ran the New York Press.
s,,,r-footed beasts Of the earth, and
e.,s+s and creeping things. and
" - Inc air. And heard a voice say
% me- Arise, Peter slay and eat"
Acts xi. c, Z.
pa,B-s who dine at Delmonleo's ana the
.-.-,,-f don't get all the good things to
n The world. and though they may
-. Earned 70 like snails and otner
dishes. there are stranger dishes
-, .bIrh they eat not OF, when are
So ,s-af great delicacics IN Tar on latlds;
So Indians of the Amazon are iohd OF
INC -.---5--xev. Do not start with disgust;
Ty-s'.--rsr the vision OF St Peter. IraNel-
e--'-Lo have eaten Of roast monkey say
f5at it is DELICIOUS. 49,. .,.rf..- mat an
o--iran who had eaten Of the dish. he
az az .5sr the flesh was tender as tnat o.
s@-,,,-g chicken, and had a oelicacy OF
- such as he had never tasted peIore'
49, Indians also are fond OF boa con-
--.-otor steaks, broiled on the SoaIs, Du1
- sssh Is rather coarse, though not uil-
uSS.sbIe Thousands Of travellers IN
s.-tb America have eaten roast lgualio
81 unless a mans prejudice aHecls MS
- % he cannot help but pronounce Il de-
lions The iguano is big lizard ana not
L.stry TO look at, but roasted II is a zen,
sscy which few VINO nave lasleu "Ouiu
.o+- IKE 10 eat again.
M fbe Siege Of Cartagena the beleaguer-
ii,babitants ate of cats and dogs which
1-sre sold dressed in the markets; Inc
49, we're tough and stringy though not
e.5arv-ise unpleasant. Perhaps II the dogS
- - nj heen half starved themselves they
ronid have been better eating. The cats
,ss1sd nearly like rabbits, and made good
steWs 18th, - ,7t,. q tho
,,o1ntain goat. The kids are sold by the
!so-sends in Ajaccio, and make deli
cious ragout. They are served with goat
milk cheese heavy with sugar.
In New York thirty years ago VINO woul6
have thought of ordering dish OF snalls
Now. in the season there Is a larg s, 1e-
nand here for them. The ike or dlsllke
n certain articles of food when 1t is not
TaIigious is a matter purely of prejudice
horn Of custom and environment: InacK-
erav brought up on the miserable little
copDerv oysters of Ostend, declared al
tAd he had eaten a Saddlerock that ne
'felt as if he had swallowed a live baby.
Not many years ago most people Would
have shuddered at the idea OF eating a
roast rib of horse, yet the siege OF Pafls
demonstrated the value of horSenesh as an
article of food, and 1t is now sold extern
sively in this country and Europe.
The Romans used to have roast peacock
in a prominent place at all their feasts.
Twice that men remember roast peacock
has been served in this country. Once at
a dinner given by Mrs. Coventry Wardell
years and years ago and once at lunch
con given by Commodore Gerry on board
his yacht Electra at Newport. Few people,
II any who ate Of Mrs. Coventry Warden s
peacock are alive to tell how 1t tasted, put
there are many who remember the commo-
dOre's peacock. 1t was remarkably tough.
The commodore had obtained the bird
from a friend who has several OF them
cleaning about his lawns near Newport,
and" whisper 1t not In the streets of Aske-
on'-it might have been that the peacock
offered up for the sacrifice was patriarch
Of the flock! When the bird of Juno ap-
peared on the wardroom table and the
genial voice of the commodore was heard
saying, Step below, gentlemen, and par
take of the plain and simple fare OF the
Electra" the peacock stood there with its
gorgeous tail spread and it's iridescent
neck and head properly disposed at the
other end of its body. 1t was stuffed with
truffies and other good things. The real
meat of the peacock tasted like that of a
venerable turkey.
There used to be club in New York,
perhaps 1t stu exists, called the Ichtho-
phagus Club. 1t was composed of men
Ike that enthusiastic fisherman Robert
Roosevelt and that great dealer in fish
Eugene G. Blackford. The club once a
year used to have dinners at which all
kinds of strange sea food were served, the
courses generally beginning with a "puree
OF sharks fms" Its object was to teach
the people that there were more things in
the sea fit to be eaten than was dreamed
OF in the ordinary cooks philosophy. Per-
haps the experiments of the club were a
little too radical, for, though at these ban
quets good health waited upon appetite,
Indigestion some times followed both
The son Of Joachim Murat, the King of
Naples, while living in exile in florida.
used to experiment in the availability of
strange creatures for food purposes and
mas left record of his experiments. The
sspahiards nave dish Of which they are
fond, which can be bought at any OF the
Spanlsh restaurants about the end of
Maiden lane. IT is cuttlefsh, and to an
american it is anything but pleasant. But
the spanish might retort that many
americans are fond of Limburger cheese.