The herald., 1897-12-24
GASTRONOMIC DAlNTlES
TEMPTINoLY DIsPLAYED IN THE
SHOPS
Brown, Black and Other Bear Meat.
Rare Fruits and Vegetables.
Other Christmas Cheer

The most fastidious epicure can find no
fault with the array of choice gastro-
nomic bait displayed in the various meat
and fish markets, game and poultry
stalls, green grocers and other haunts
of delectable edibles at this particular
catholic taste. each longing may be sat
isfied.
In the way of meats there Is pork from
the piglet a foot long to mammoth
structure of the porcine family weigh
ing $50 pounds, and Catalina Wild boar
which tips the scales at 625 pounds.
Beeves large, small and medium; lamb,
ram, sheep or mutton" as the first al
manac printed after the flood made the
funny waiter say.
Then last, but by no means least of
the meats, there is bear. In fact there
are no less than three beors in differ
ent shops in the city from which steaks,
etc., will be sold today and tomorrow,
at the modest stipend Of 80 cents for
each pound. One of these bears is a
cub of the black variety and it has been
gambolling about in the Businesses of
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. the town or the
mountains was not clearly explained
until yesterday or the day before when
it was massacred and delivered here for
eating purposes.
Another bear. this one cinnamon and
much larger. is hanging by its hind feet
with an expression Of ennui on it's face,
and no wonder 1t is claimed that this
bear is also from Tehachapi. To his
back Is attached a large piece of paper
with legend to the effect that after be-
ing wounded he killed three men and
eight hounds, and incidentally the name
of the local hunter that finally killed the
dangerous beast is given with each
pound of meat. And yet, there are those
who say and others who believe that
this poor bruin was one Of number in
little collection of wild CD animals
near East Side park, and that while one
able-bodied man held the doomed ami
NAL. another dealt the fatal blow with
an ak upon the back of the head. But
of course that wouldn't make the meat
any less toothsome.
Besides turkeys, geese, chickens and
ducks of all ages and conditions Of serv-
itude, there are curlew, snipe, quail
plover. kildees. and other varieties OF
fowl and game. little neck clans, oys-
ters adapted to any sized mouth, and
fish from tom cod to salmon. Vege-
tables there are. in season and out. June
artichokes and winter caulifiower, lus.
cious celery and crisp lettuce, to say
nothing Of those refined and aesthetic
pocket editions of the cabbage sprouts.
In fruits. besides the perennial orange
lemon, grape fruit, banana and pineap-
pie, there are special dispensations OF
pale blond strawberries from Gardena
and more brilliantly colored berries
from somewhere else. alligator pears,
Missouri apples, Cornichon and Malaga
grapes, pomegranates.. persimmons
queer winter canteloupes, white Adriatic
figs and peaches.
Every one of the shops is decorated
with holly, bright tinsel and paper
greens Of various sorts, and in some OF
them are very elaborate devices, clever
ly executed. In all the wares are dis
played to the best advantage and the
housekeeper or caterer who cannot con-
coct an elaborate menu for tomorrow's :
dinner is only he whose purse is emaciat-
ed, and even then there Is enough that
is within reach as to price for q very
toothsome Christmas feast.