Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1906-09-08
A VARIETY OF DISHES
Col. Davis Tells of Some Absurd Kind. ..
Food.

A man who, according To WI.
Eat. processes to have eaten more o;.fl.
ent kinds of foods in more diflerar-
foreign chimes than any other man fy,r..
today, or than any other man thar .,+-
lived in any other time, is Col Navr1. ,T'
Davis of London. '''"'
was dining once with Jauano..
family in Toxic" says the coIansr
when queer covered dish was hronrl
TO the table. The servant removed H.
cover, disclosing live fish wriggliu@ AMI
Hopping inside the dish.
Ihey then proceeded to kill il hcf.ro
my eyes, and offer me a portion To emf
dld SO, TOO. 1t was of pecuHal.
taste, but not unpleasant.
Next to Japan, China offers the orao+
est array of marvellous dishes. Eony
forty or fifty years old, which have heer
buried for these periods in clay mr.,
held to be the greatest delicacies in th,
empire. The longer the egg is inferred
the finer it is supposed to be. The On
nese egg that is sent to the table is
almost black and its flavor reminds one
of an overripe egg that has been hard
boiled and then served.
Il have eaten many dsagreeohlo
things in China-merely for the expe.
rlence, OF course. Among these were
sea slugs, sort of oyster, and fattpnod
puppy. The most disagreeable, how
ever, was bit of cold pigs liver
wrapped around a prune. There was
no escape for me from eating this
though l tried ~ avoid it. My neighbor
at the table picked up the liver and the
prune with his chOpsticks and held them
before my lips. | could do nothing but
open my mouth and allow. the combina-
ton to be inserted, because it is conSjd-
cred a signal honor in the Celestial kim.
dom to have a fellow lest offer yon q
dainty mOrsel in the aforesaid man
ner.
THE fattened puppy tasted something
like n baked sucking pig. The puppy is
fed on rice and milk for several month,
before it is killed to be eaten. and tAe
flesh is tender and quite palataDle.
In Africa-the Transvaal-I have
lived on trek cattle, hedgehogs and other
things. They tasted peculiar.
Il have often eaten fried serpent IN
Africa. This did not appeal TO me, how
ever. 1t tasted something like an eel Of
an inferior. oily sort.
''Roumania is the only country whore
l have tried bear. The meat of the AM
NAL from which / had a steak was much
like the stringy flesh of an OK OF qups-
tionabe age. l believe the best bear
meat is that from small species which
inhabits Cashmere and which feeds
mostly on wild fruit.
Turkish restaurants were more ac-
ceptable than a person would be led to
believe. One of their most noted dishes
is Il joint of lamb boiled to shreds and
the small pieces eaten with the fingers.
"Horse1esh | have eaten in South
Africa, to return to that country again.
1t was ut Ladysmith tins was served. be
cause there was nothing else. The flesh
of the horse is unsatisfactory. as it is
sweet and tough. Our men at Lady
smith became tired of it.
There is one wild beast / have not
partaken of, and that is lions flesh.
have never heard of this being eaten, bur
/ should imagine from the nature of the
beast the flesh would be dry and stringy,
coupled with rank taste. The lion is
lacking in fat. | shot several in India,
but their bodies were nothing but hard
muscle. 1t is the same with the buck
you kill in India and Africa. The am
mails are destitute of fat.
Il think Monte Carlo is the most eX-
pensive place in the world TO dine One
cannot get any kind of a respectable
meal there for less than SO or $40 For
every glass of old brandy there you viii
be asked to pay $3.50. In Paris there IS
some cOgnac bottled before the battle of
Waterloo which commands 50 Il thimbe-
ful "