The San Francisco call., 1909-03-29
NEWS THE FOUR COUNTIES BORDERING ON SAN FRANCISCO BAY
PROVES FIT FOOD
FOR BEST OF MEN
Delicious Offering of the Earth
Earthly Required to Make
Any Feast Complete

II it be fairly smooth OF surface ana
of good size-not too. large-and COM
paratively round. or. better. a little
obIong. and comes TO you at breakfast
perfectly baked. after thorough rlnSlng
OF it's skin. accept II gratefully anu
handle IL properly. with view OF IuiI
enjoyment Of its delicacies- II eXhalsS
a eomminglinS OF the fragrance or us
delicious interior with that OF the love
ly brown OF it's coating. 1t IS very
much Of the earth earthly, this fragrant
invitation TO the breaking Of the fast.
this close appeal to appetite. this hum
BILE but deliciously harmonizing inti-
mate of the soil
Its odor is subtly engrossing. delicate
and all pervading. with. perhaps. the
merest suspicion OF a slightly narcotic
property. II IL happens to be too hot
for the unprotected hands. take nap
kin TO IL and break IL open as deli
cately as possible, as nearly into halves
as possible. The knife2 Heavens, no.
What has this most grateful produe-
tion of a most benefcent nature ever
done to you that you should turn such
a weapon against IT; that you shopAxH
apply TO its smiling skin and fair my
terror anything so deadening as steel"
Profane this splendid gift OF the new
world to all the peoples OF the earth
by cutting it? Never, A fork may be
used in guiding to the point of de-
lighted realization after due anticipa-
tion and the hands have made the
preparation complete. A gentle pres
sure of either hand and the two hemi-
spheres raise their almost snowy
whiteness to be discharged upon the
hot plate.
Or you may choose to eat II right
out of the skin and partake OF the lat
ter as we'll; in that event your taste
is good II the butter be golden and
sweet and salt be chosen. then these
two complete the preparation OF this
appetizing portion OF a feast. Pizzaro
and his people may have first tasted at
Quito of the faraway ancestor OF this
boon to all humanity. but the product
down in South America may have been
only the sweeter. but less delicate
cousin of this. Adventures and bUcca-
neers like Drake and Hawkins may
have carried it to Europe from Vir-
ginia.
You admit the fact of the statue to
Drake at Offenburg. in Baden. TO honor
him as the punitive father OF its in
PRODUCTION to Europe and you may have
read that the courtly Raleigh hrst
planted it in England and Ireland at
his Devonshire and Munster estates and
exhibited it as a curiosity to Elizab beth.
But they could imagine nothing of the
future glOFieS OF the plant and it's fruit.
that in the centuries TO come IL
should stand often between starvation
and the millions OF the Emerald Isle.
Here in its perfection we call il
"meaIy" and fine of flavor, which is
merely a halfhearted tribute TO the
delights to CESSATION OF this master
production OF the world OF tubers. IL
matters not what meat may be its COM
panion. IL viii be found in delicious
harmony with il.
rose may in fact. smell Just as
sweet by any other name, but this DO
tatO has a thousand names and yet ex-
cells the rose. Hence. perhaps IL has
been called the Early Rose. An abo-
riginal tribe OF our country called il
Nashannock, and down in some OF the
eastern states that was the name long
applied to the most delightful of its
family. The red man baked IT in the
ashes OF very hot fire in the earth.
and when he ate it thanked the great
Manitou for the gift Call IL Burbank
or White Star. say IL Is home grown
or shipped at SIPS per bushel or so
cents. but as there ascends from it the
incense OF the impalpable steam Of its
richness and YOU inhaIe the fragrance.
whatever be the name or the price. the
mouth tingles to the sensation OF it
Cincinnati Enquirer