The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-10-15
Lobster Bisque.
A CHEF FROM INDIA.

He Is Mr.. J. Ranji Smile and Is
Creating Sensation with His
Curries.
New York. Oct. 13.-From the fsrthest |
end of India comes J. Ranji Smile, the first
India chef America has ever seen. Those !
who know him Familiarity, call him Joe,
VINO says: If the women of America will
but eat the food ! prepare. they Will be |
more beautiful than they as yet imagine. |
The eye wiz grow lustrous, the complex |
ion will be yet so lovely and the figure
like unto those of our beautiful India wo-
men,
Joe" came to New York few weeks
ago, since which time he has been serving
all sorts of de5ectabie dishes in Sherry
great Fifth avenue establishment. The
fancy for curries which is the founda-
ton for all India dishes, seems to have
taken possession of every one who has
eaten of them You take seat at one Of
the dainty tables, look over the India
menu with a sort of fear and trembling
of what's to come, with a delightful I'M
certainty pervading your soul 1t costs a
lot of money. too, but then you are there
and in for the expense.
Soon Joe" arrives, Immediately ar
rayed in a heavy white linen India cos
tune, with a gorgeous turban of white
all outlined in gold braid, with a broad
smile which shows all his cleaning teeth
and with the little seductive manner that
pleases the pubic so much, he lays be-
fore you a silver dish. AS he removes the
cover you feel that life is not all a weary
dream and you become less sceptical on
India dishes in general. Joe makes
cunning little circle on your plate with
deftncss of long practice of the wh!test,
flakiest curried rice, in the center of
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time he is telling you IN his gentle sort of
way that his one hope is this may be only
the first of many dinners he is to serve to
you. Instead OF one dish you may have
an entire India menue running as follows:
Kalooh Sherry
Murghi Rain
Muskee Sindh
Curry of Chicken Madras
Indian Bhagi Topur, Bombay Duck
Lettuce Ceylon
Khurbooja Handari
Coffee KarabSee
To Improve the Looks of Our Women
This, ]. Rail explains, is the typical
dinner as to the number of courses that
ladies in the better stations of life would
have in India. "Oh, your great trouble in
this country" he continues, lis the hurried
cooking. l almost feel like fainting as 1
go to some of your great resorts, look into
YOUR kltCneDS ana see the way the lOOu Is
prepared. This gives the dyspepsia, which
all my friends here whom I have served
say they 90 not experience when eating of
my curries. So many ladies are fearful of
my preparations, thinking that everything,
must be very hot and peppery. This is
not so of India cooking. All things must
be so nicely even, and such care as to
smoothness, that it will be of so pleasant
a taste they can but ask for more
TT is a mistake to boil curries." he con-
tnues "Tney should simmer gently and
not lose their flavor In India and China
curres are often served in separate dishes
Now, do not boil the rice. Cleanse it,
using three times as much water in boiling
as there is rice and never stir it, and then
it all comes out like so many separate
snowfiakes."
Joe" says some of these days he is go
ing to make tour through the West and
South after he finishes his good missionary
work in the East, and then there viii be
no more "of that which you call dyspep-
STA floating about in this beautiful coun-
try" Just now he is in a great state of
excitement over the prospective arrival
of ten India cooks, whom he will guide
through an elaborate service in the beauti-
fully equipped India room that Sherry has
about planned cut.
"JOe's" Curries, silver and Turbans.
Joe" makes all his own curry powders
and pastes and makes them they suit
the palates of different nationalities. Just
how he does this it is difficult to say,
he follows no special rules, except the
spontaneous inspiration of his own head.
Some day. when Joe has time. he will
print a little book. telling the American
women what is good for them to eat, how
| they must prepare il and serve II, and
who knows what delightful effect this may
! have on the masculine temperament. The
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| rule, with curries. which form such
background of India cooking, is that they
| are always in too much of a rush, and
they curry everything alike; for to curry
| a chicken the same as a piece of fish or
| a piece of beef, trouble is bound to arise,
and, in disgust. the cook lays it on 20 the
curry.
Joe has all his own silver dishes and
utensils. his own separate place in the
| great kitchen, where he is absolute mon
| arch of all he surveys. and the French
| chef may strictly mind his own affairs,
| for he isn't Sin It," On state occasions
| ie you want things particularly up TO date
| he will array himself in his gorgeous best
| costume, consisting of long black satin
lined coat, a cross between the Prince Al
| bert and a dress coat, magnificent en-
| broidered, white sash, pointed slippers,
| white trousers and light blue silk tur-
| ban, on which the Mahara iah of Coochbe-
| har has pinned handsome design in rec
| IGNITION of Ranji's services to him.
| I was so much impressed with these tur-
/ bans, and they looked so becoming upon
| one very pretty young woman's head. that
| / asked him If he would not make me one.
1t takes five yards of silk, twined and
| twisted into such firm shape that it looks
| as though a yard would cover the whole
| outline, and the cost is about SIS, as this
| material must be of the finest quality.
| Joe" has made several turbans for prom
| inent people on the stage, usually placing
a sweeping feather to one side, TO give
! 1t the necessary jaunty touch. He never