Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1903-11-20
A SYMPOSIUM ON GRAVY
Senator Pettus' Warning Dis
cussed by Experts.
VALUE OF MEAT JUICES EULOGIzED
Leading Dietitians Say Gravies and
Sauces Are All Right and Disagree
With the Alabama Statesman That
They shorten Life-One shows How
Battles Have Been Won on Gravy.

With the Alabama Statesman That
They shorten Life-One shows How
Battles Have Been Won on Gravy.
Senator Edmund w. Pettus of Ala
bama says we Americans are going to
smash because we eat gravy with our
meat. NJ. Martin, Oscar, Louis. Sherry
and other culinary authorities Of New
York reply to him with the laugh Of
World. They say he knows not where
of he speaks. Listen to Senator Pettus:
"In this day gravy Is called sauce, l
know. It's French word that means
gravy, and il 1t had not been given a
French name by the English speaking
races | dare say not so much Of it
would be eaten. 1t Is shortening the
life Of the race. just like 80 many other
French denominations are, and the
sooner we Danish 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 II. 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 a
mixture made of substances entirely
foreign to the meat itself and to be
served with 1t as an appetizer. Gravy
is part of the meat In liquid form
and can be no more harmful than the
meat it came from"
"Tbe contention of Senator Pettus is
Incredible" said Oscar Tcherky, the
only Oscar, maitre d'hotel 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
1t 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"
II will ask Senator Pettus one ques-
tion." exclaimed Mr.. Ballard, chef at
Martins. docs he know of any SOL
der in all the history of mankind who
marches farther or faster or fights bet
ter than the soldier Of France? 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.
1.-THE honorable senator permits him.
self to call sauces French abomina-
TONS What better proof could you
find that he has never tasted a verita-
BILE French saucer Is he fond of fillet
of sole? 1t is good dish-nourishing.
savory, satisfying. But let him try
fillet Of sole la Normandie. There is
dish for which. in perfection. q gour-
met would give one year of his life.
Let the honorable gentleman come here
and try my fillet Of sole and the sauce
shall give him. l am willing to cook
for him free for the rest of my life.
But ii he Is mistaken, let him say 30.
mo, 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 man with bad sauce"
he declared, for. 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.
tons. They think faster and see
straighter than those primitive persons
who eat neither sauces nor gravies, and
they outlive them too"
1.-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 a good sauce-ah! there
Is that which tempts the appetite. aids
the digestion, re-enforces the strength
of men. Shortens life! Oh, what aw-
full sauces poor Senator Pettus must
have encountered in A In ho ~,