Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1911-09-02
.lESTS BY EP|CURt
German Makes Many Joke:
About American Cooking.
Criticises Our Sweet Tooth and De
ciares Our Roasts Are Tasteiess
TELLS of Chickens as Big
as Storks.

New York--Ernst Won Wolgozen
who came to New York last winter &c
study social conditions. is man OF
letters and In his own country ranks
higher In a literary sense than many
OF his countrymen who visit the Unit
ed States 1t was to be expected
therefore. that he would carry hoine
valuable impressions of life here. tut
he seems to have been impressed
chiefly by the crudities OF the cuisine
To him American cooking is SO gro
tesque and naive gastromonic sys
TEN that his ridcule of 1t lies in the
least serious fields OF burlesque Az
conclusion to all he observed here
he thinks Americans want everything
SO sweet that frequent visit to the
dentist Is inevitable, From the col
fee In the morning until the late sup
per he finds that Americans mus
have their sweet tooth satisfied OF
they are unhappy
1t is not easy to say In what kinds
VI uouiCS hiCii Noh WV BO1SH otuuiSa
life here, since he fnds that the do.
nestle service in the best houses Is
so poor that 1t is difficult to get the
dishes washed and the result OF this
is the necessity of getting along with
one knife. This condition he says
makes It difficult to eat roast beet as
the silver knives will pot rut 1t and
there are no houses in which both
kinds Of knives are found.
He remarks that Of all the roasts
served on New York tables, beef is
alone possible to eat. since lamb
chops and veal outlets are tasteless
Perhaps the most astonishing stat G.
ment he makes In reference to the
roasts Is that at certain house ne
received for dinner honey as com
pote. Surely this Is unique not only
In his experience, but in that OF most
New Workers. Compete or stewed
fruits are seldom served In American
families. but are to be found on the
tables Of Germans, SO Herr Won VOL
gozen must have had this experience
in the house of some OF his com
patriots.
Came" he says In one place. lis
much more eaten In the United States
than 1t Is with us. Poultry grows te
the most improbable dimensions here
have seen chickens as tall as storks
and as fat as a poodle dog.
1.-THE flesh of these abnormally
large beasts is, however. not tender
and the limbs in particular acquire
an entirely different character from
the flesh on the breasts. II turns
brown and succulent In the roasting
while the white flesh rcmaias dry and
flavorless."
1t is evident that what Herr Voc
Wolgozen describes as chicken must
have been turkey. Soule Of his 9th
err experiences at tao!e we're more
remarkable, but they probably hap
pened In a boarding h,uNe-if they
happened anywhere. lie says that
young chicken Is even served with
sweet -four sauce, which he finds
very disagreeable. since even In the
finer houses the servants will not
wash the dishes and 1t is necessary
to eat everything on the plate with
the chicken and the sweet sauce.
He says that in his boarding house
after soup piece of fish was served
to him. About this plate from which
he was supposed to eat the fish were
lair many small dishes containing
vegetables. chicken and various com
bipations of vegetables and meat He
was compelled to eat these on the fish
plate and liked only potatoes. which,
baked In their skins. he found de-
licious. He observes with the air oi
an authority that all the fish from the
Atlantic ocean are so poor that only
the river and fresh-water fish are re
garded as worth eating"
Il do not think" he said, that there
is in the three kingdoms of nature
anything that Is not to be found in an
American salad. The groundwork oil
this is composed of two or three large
green leaves. On these Is poured OF
mixed with vinegar, and there arises
more or less striking structure oil
all impossible sours and sweets, salts
and bitters, toughs and tenders. liquid
a !, NH re-