The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-02-19

Now pies have become suoJe''
of international inquiry.
Educators have come here from
England to study American schools
\ London tailor came over once 10
see why all American army officers
had such square shoulders, and chi
panen have come halfway round the
world TO see firemen slide down poles
of American brass, but never before
had an ambassador been here to
studv American cooking until Albert.
chef to the Crown Princess Cecile
of Germany, arrived aboard the
steamship named after his royal mis-
tress saws the New York Post.
He has come with special instruc-
+ions to learn all there is to be
learned about American dishes, and
how to make them. How, for in
stance. to get that delicate brown and
crispv fakiness of the upper crust
on apple pie, which is so different
from the linoleum foundation OF
Dutch apple cake.
On the way across the royal cher
was the guest of the ships chief
cook. and to make the best of his
time he tried his hand at sea-cook-
cry. AS a preliminary to his first
lessons in pound cake and snow pud-
ding ashore he went into the galley
and fixed up a Nordsee Steinbutt NIT
Oderkrebsen done to turn in Ter
lassene Butter; also Hammelnuss und
Kalbsmidder NIT Tafelpilzen. He's
still aboard ship, over in Hoboken,
eating things like that for this plen-
ipotentiary of the pans has never
been abroad before and is in no hurry
to begin on his special mission.
The emperor frequently runs over
to Potsdam for Kaffeeklatsch with
his daughter-in-law, and if he hap
mems to come on Alberts day out
there's nothing for Albert to do but
stay at home and attend to the COOK
ing.
He Likes America So Far.
Yes" said Albert, who was found
pensively bordering a noodle in the
old gold and blue apartments of the
cook, Il have come to study your
cooking. This is a great country,
a wonderful country. | hope that
the best of relations will always eX-
list between America and Germany
Il have seen your tall buildings.
They are wonderful. | cannot help
thinking that such a mission as mine
will help to promote friendly inter-I
national intercourse. For doesn't all
the world eat? Suppose everybody
in the world should stop eating for
a year, or six months? The progress
of civilization would be put way
back. So you can see the Importance
of my mission from the broad, world
wide point of view"
will you see our PRESIDENT was
inquired.
II have as yet made no formal
plans to see my emperor's great
friend" replied Herr Albert. But
can you tell me (here he closed the
door to the palatial galley and low
cred his voice to whisper), can
YOU tell me what secret foods your
president eats. If | could tell my
emperor that | would be decorated
But unless the German ambassa-
dor or some other interested person
looks out for Albert he won't learn
anything about American cooking at
all. He is going to begin his Ameri-
can education at the Hotel st. Regis.
Inquiry there this morning revealed
the fact that he was expected and
would be welcome. He will be the
special guest of Barraliere, the chef.
To- your correspondent was granted
an audience with Barraliere, but not
without considerable formality.
''Have you a card?' asked one of
Barralieres personal retinue.
The card was placed on an en-
graved silver tray, and the attendant
disappeared swiftly, but without
noise, through the doors of precious
woods into the marble kitchen.
Another Kitchen King.
Some delay was necessary, because
the king had just called his coun-
Gil, but after dismissing the chiefs of
division and his court favOrite the
Prince of Sauces, Barraliere, let it
be known that he would see the
stranger. He sat upon a marble dais,
in his own apartments, at the further
end of the kitchen.
The frieze about the throne-rOom
was four and twenty blackbirds in
mosaic, and Barralieres cap, as
snowy as a napkin, was none of your
little, skinny, tight affairs, such as
griddle-cake cooks who fry their bat
ter in show-windows wear, but so
full on top that it bulged out at the
four corners like the pictures of a
coronet in the dictionary.
But Barraliere is a traitor to the
United States. He has seeded from
the union and set up principally
of his own in his kitchen, for he con-