Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-03
neutrality-suspicious.
APPLES WITH HrcH1NGs ON
THEIR SKINS.
Fowls Worth So to So Apiece-Rus-
sian Caviare Hard to Get
Expensive Eggs.
From the New York Sun.

From the New York Sum- 2
There is growing up here in New York
cult in the art of good eating. There is
large and growing group of New Workers
who are not convinced by glitter and daz-
Zling table equipment that the dinner they
are eating Is a good dinner. AS to the price,
that does not figure In their calculations.
1t never did, for that matter; but now II Is
coming to be more and more insisted upon
that the price shall be felt in the food 1t
self rather than in the food accessories.
But for all the finer touches in the matter
of food we still are going abroad. OF
course there are the standard American
things, such as canvasback ducks and ter
rapin. These are always in demand anu
always expensive.
1t will take from Sc to IS to buy a pair
of canvasback ducks, and only two persons
can be served from a single duck. ana as
for the terrapin, they still hold their own
at from $50 to $50, and even. now and then'
$120 a dozen.
Yet the greater part of all Of these sup
plies for the most expensive dishes con-
sumed by the art feeders or New 1ork
come from abroad. The foreign steamers
particularly the steamers of the French
line bring great quantities of very nigh
priced articles of food to the city every
week. And very few of these articles ever
get by New York.
CLUBS GoL L1Ou SudIc.
The clubs get the lions. share Of all the
finer and most expensive articles. but the
hgh-priced restaurants have steady, ana,
within the past four or five years, rapidly
growing demand for these products. Inc
importation of poulardes du Mans canards
de Rouen and the most expensive European
fruits has grown steadily OF late ana mas
become no inconsiderable item in New
York's bill of fare.
l,, q LIE
Mans, is a bird which. like the Strasburg
goose spends the last three or four months
Of her life in box which barely permits
her to move. Her only consolation during
this season of retirement is that she has
Iimitless quantities of all the varieties or
food she likes best and which are most cal
culated to make her flesh white and tender
and saturated with fat. Six dollars apiece
is about what the poulardes cost, and some
of them weigh almost as much as small
turkey.
The Rouen ducks are also extremely pop
uar here in New York, and are being I'M
ported in rapidly increasing numbers They
are particularly fat and tender. and they
cost just about the same as the poulardes,
sometimes running up as high as 81 for a
particularly fine one.
English Pheasants.
From both France and England come
pheasants In large quantities. The i'm
ported pheasants, properly served with
truffies. will cost about $40.
1--WE don't import plover eggs any more,
said a cafe proprietor. IT'S against the
law-has been for some time back. But we
used to get a great may OF them, and we
sold them for from sixty cents to dollar
apiece. You could easily eat a dozen of
them. and that is just what a gentleman
| in my place did one time | am sure he did
not realize what he was doing until he got
his bill of s12 for plovers' eggs. He paid
the bill without a murmur, but he seemed
rather absent-minded and dispirited after
ward"
OF the absurdly expensive foreign fruit
! that is consumed here in New York none is
| more popular than the Calville apples.
They are grown in Normandy and near
Turenne also. and sell here in New York
for 70 cents to 81 apiece Even in France.
at certain seasons of the year, they bring
40 and 40 cents apiece, while a Monte Carlo
they not infrequently touch 81 apiece.
They are grown with infinite care and
pains against garden walls, each apple
being treated a work of art. Indeed 1t
is work of art, for each apple bears a
picture on its thin. delicate skin that is
etched out by the rays of the sun. You
may have any picture you like on your Cal
vile apple If you notify the grower in adj
vance. The picture is made by putting It's
sue paper over the growing apple In the
tissue paper the pictorial design is cut out,
and the sun does the rest.
There has of late been a great demand
for Belgian asparagus. and a great deal of
1t is brought In. 1t sells at from 81 to So a
bunch. In the fish line, sole from France
comes In a great deal. sole costs about
AS for Russian caviare, genuine Russian
caviare 1t is very difficult to get. 1t costs
S. pound.
French quail quite different bird from
our American quail. are imported in consid-
cradle numbers. They sell at from s1.25 to
$3.50 apiece.