The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1905-05-25
Apples ut One Dollar Each.
New York Sun.

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York cult in the art of good eating,
There is "a large and growing grouI
of New Workers who are not con.
vinced by the glittering 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 it is becoming
more and more insisted upon that the
price shall be felt in the food itself
rather than in the food accessories.
But for all the finer touches in the
matter Of food we are going abroad.
OF course there are the standard
American things, such as canvasback
ducks and terrapin. These are always
In demand and expensive.
1t will take from IS to So to buy q
pair of canvasback ducks, and only
two persons can be served from a sin.
gle duck. And as for the terrapin,
they still hold their own at from 5G
to $50 and even now and then Sl20 q
dozen.
Yet the greater part Of those supplies
for the most expensive dishes con
sumed by the art feeders of New York
come from abroad. The foreign
steamers, particularly the Frencf
line, bring great quantities of very
high priced articles of food to the
city every week. And very few Of
these articles ever get by New York,
The clubs get the lions share Of al
the finer and most expensive articles
but the high priced restaurants have
steady, and, in the past four years,
rapidly growing demand for these
products The importation of poul
ardes du Mans, canards de rouen anC
the most expensive European fruits
has grown steadily of late and has be
come no inconsiderable item in New
York'a bill Of fare.
A poularde du Mans, or fat hen o
lie Mans, is bird, which, like tn
Strausberg goose, spends the las
three or four months Of her life in
box which barely permits her to move
Her only consolation during this sea
son of retirement is that she has lin
itless quantities of all the varieties o
food she likes hest and which ar
most calculated to make her flesI
W ite and tender and saturated wit
fat. Six dollars apiece is about wha
the poulads cost, and some Of then
weigh almost as much as a small tur
key.
The Rouen ducks are also extreme
ly popular here in New York and ar
being imported in rapidly increasin
numbers They are particularly ia
and tender and they cost just abou
the same rs the poulards, sometime
running up as high as 81 for par
ticularly fine one.
From both France and Englan
come pheasants in large quantities
The imported pheasant, properl
served with truiiles, will cost abou
$40.
"We don't import plover eggs an
more, ~ said j. b. Martin of the CAT
Martin. otis against the law--ha
been for some time back. But W
used to get great many of them, an
we sold them for from 60 cents to
dollar apiece.
"You could easily eat dozen Q
them, and that is just what gentle
man done in my place one time.
am sure he did not realize what he wa
doing until he got his bill of sl2 70
plover's eggs. He paid the bill with
out murmer, but he seemed rathe
absent minded and dispirited after
ward. "
OF the absurdly expensive foreigl
fruits that are consumed in New Yorl
none is more popular than the Cavill
apples. They are grown in Normand
near Turennealso, and sell here il
New York for 75 cents to 81 apiece
Even in France at certain seasons o
the year, they bring 40 and 40 cent
apiece, while at Monte Carlo they no
infrequently touch 81 apiece.
They are grown with infinite car
and pains against garden walls, eacl
apple being treated as a work of art
for each apple bears picture in it
thin, delicate skin that Is etched on
by the rays of the sun.
You may have any picture you wan
on your Caville apple If you motif,
the grower In advance. The picture /
made by putting tissue paper owe
the growing apple. In the tissue pape
the pictorial design Is cut out, anC
the sun does the rest.
The Calvilles are greenish appl
in tint and are remarkably juicy anC
delicate in flavor. The Dutches
pears, also from France, are imported
In great numbers, and they, too, sci
at rs cents piece.
There has of late been great de
mand for Belgian asparagus, and l
great deal of it is brought in. L
sells at from 81 to SS bunch.
In the fish line, sole from Franc,
comes in a great deal. A sole cost
about -, aud restaurant portion
is sold for sl.50. As for Russian
caviar, 1t Is very difficult to get II
costs IS a pound French quail
quite different bird from our Ameri
can quail, are imported in consider
able numbers. They sell at from 81. 2;
to Sl.5O apiece.