Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-21
FOR THANKSGIVING TABLES
Fare from All the World for United
States to Feed On.
APPETIzING WINTER VEGETABLES
Turkeys from Rhode Island, Fruit
from Africa, Caviare from RUS
sIa-Food Novelties OF
the season.

Thanksgiving dinners I'm the United states
might be classified in four divisions, vary
ing In elaboration, elegance and bountiful-
ness. Some managers of fashionable res
t]aurants mention $40 a plate as a con-
sentative estimate of the cost of a dinner,
admitting genially that the $40 limit should
be elastic II the host happens TO have a
pretty taste in wines and knows the subtle
diversitics that Turk in rare vir a
From the $40 a plate to the 6O-cent table
d'hote Of French or Italian parentage is a
step. a long step, but it is a journey taken
by many.
The Thanksgiving dinner OF the home
has i'm many Instances but little relation
ship with the picture that the word of four
letters brings to the visualizing memory.
II il an elaborate function, the members
OF the family added to by many guests,
the menu vying with that Of the Fifth
avenue hotels OF New York in magnificence.
Every country in the world is called upon
to add its quota of supplies. It may begin
with a hors d'oeuvre from Siberia and end
with fruit from Africa The decorations of
orchids may have come from the jungles
Of South America and cost not only nun
dreds Of dollars, but lives as well.
If one is not invited to such a dinner and
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haps no purse to hold the money IL it
should surprisingly come, there are Saliva
ton Army feeds; in fact the city at this
season is fairly freckled with doors hos
pitably opened. exhaling the most delicious
fragrance in the world-that OF Drowned
cuticle on the back Of a certain bird.
Real Home Dinner.
Last, but by no means least. is the real
home dinner-not the one enormously so
named. Here there is a table fairly groan-
ing with good things. There are no hand
painted menus or name cards to designate
the rank Of guests. The food is OF the kind
grandmother made, and the three or per-
haps four generations who sit about the
board attest the fact that Notwithstanding
the fact that the word Thanksgiving has
come to mean little else for some than an
excuse for magnificance there are a few
Of the faithful left who prefer the noble
bird and the pumpkin pie to the dishes
whose real characters are concealed by
French nomeclature and dressing.
Turkeys ready for the Thanksgiving
table are already heaped high. Notwith-
standing the flip given the Rhode Island
trade by White House favor, it is stated
by some of the knowing that every year
'hO @NSN III uIdIheL BelS less ana less
of these precious birds. Boston taking
the greater part of a crop which does not
seem to be augmented as time moves on.
TIL Rhode Island turkeys when they
do come arrive minus head and claws and
the elimination is paid for by the addI-
ton Of ? or 3 cents a pound. From 20 to
80 cents a pound is asked in the markets
for these birds.
Like many other good old-fashioned Gus
toms, the passing OF the turkey as the
piece de resistance is noted. Chickens and
ducks and game OF all kinds run a close
second. The guinea hens are very popular
this year and may be had for $1.5O a brace,
while even squad, fat and 40 cents apiece.
are selected by some housewives.
Two Kinds of Pumpkins.
There are practically only two varieties
of the far famed pumpkin-pronounced
punkin, please, when you attach it to pie.
One of these is the jack-o'-lantern kind,
oval and tinted color of an Italian sunset;