Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-11-16
4 SYMPOSIUM ON GRAVY
Senator Pettus' Warning Dis
 cussed by Experts.
VALUE OF MEAT JUICES EULoaIzED

VALUE OI MbA | uO4Oh0 1O1V01EhO 1 Leading Dietitians Say Gravies and
 With the Alabama Statesmen That
 They Shorten Lffe-One Shows How
 Battles Have Been Won 0n Gravy.
 Senator Edmund W. Pettus of Ala bama says we Americans are going to smash because we eat gravy with our meat. M. Martin, Oscar, Louis, Sherry and other culinary authorities of New York reply to him with the laugh of patronizing dissent, says the New York World. They say he knows not where of he speaks. Listen to Senator Pettus:
 "In this day gravy is called sauce, I know. It's a French word that means gravy, and if it had not been given a French name by the English speaking races dare say not so much of it would be eaten. It is shortening the life of the race, just like so many other French abominations are, and the sooner we banish it from our diet the better will be the health of the genera ton of young men and women coming on to take our places"
 Senator Pettus has got his terms mixed" said Dr. John H. Girdner of New York. Gravy corresponds to the French word 'potage' and signifies the juice, fat, etc.. of the meat, which are brought out while it is cooking. Sauce is derived from the Latin 'salsa,' which means salt pickles and now signifies mixture made of substances entirely foreign to the meat itself and to be served with it as an appetizer. Gravy is part of the meat in liquid form and can be no more harmful than the meat 1t came from"
 "The contention of Senator Pettus is incredible" said Oscar Tcherky, the only Oscar, maitre dhotel at the Wal dorf-Astoria. Does the honorable gen. tleman want us to go back to the days of the cave dwellers and simply burn our meat or eat 1t raw? Good meat Is made better by proper sauce. The gravy you cannot help eating because it is the juice of the meat. A sauce may be good or bad. A fine bearnaise or hollandaise or any other good sauce adds zest to the appetite and power to the digestion. Shortening the life of our race? That is beyond belief. You will find no better race of men any where than the New Workers. and they eat good sauces and gravies wherever they find them"
 1T will ask Senator Pettus one Ques- tion," exclaimed MT. Ballard, chef at Martins. Does he know of any sol dier in all the history of mankind who marches farther or faster or fights bet ter than the soldier of France7 And what, above everything else, does he eat? Soup? Yes. And what is soup? Potage-the juice of the meat, with veg etables and savory herbs added; in other words, gravy. For generations the French warrior has been nourished on good sauces.
 '"The honorable senator permits him self to call sauces French abomina- tions.' What better proof could you find that he has never tasted verita- ble French sauce? Is he fond of fillet of sole? It is good dish--neurishing savory, satisfying. But let him try f1llet of sole la Normandie. There is a dish for which, in perfection, gour- met would give one year of his life. Let the honorable gentleman come here and try my fillet of sole and the sauce I shall give him. I am willing to cook for him free for the rest of my life. But If he is mistaken, let him say so.
 "No, no. Sauce is to dishes what clothing is to man. Civilized humanity cannot do without the one or the other" :"
 Louis Sherry read the declaration of Senator Pettus.
 ''You can kill q man with bad sauce," he declared, flor, on the other hand, you can make defeated candidate feel that life is worth living by giving him a proper sauce. New Workers are fond of good sauces and good gravies. They have fine appetites and strong diges- tions. They think faster and see straighter than those primitive persons who eat neither sauces nor gravies, and they outlive them too."
 '.The art of cooking" said M. Pascal Grand, chef at Sherry's, marks one of the chief differences between man and the brute. The animal devours his kill raw, with no sauce but hunger. Man has imagination, soul. Therefore he cooks. So long as we eat meat we must eat the gravy that is the juice of the meat But good sauce-ah! there is that which tempts the appetite, aids the digestion, re-enforces the strength of men. Shortens life! Oh, what aw- ful sauces poor Senator Pettus must have encountered. in Alabama" .