The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-10-14
~ WALLACE IRWIN.

A few weeks ago the quartermaster
generals department, faithful to its
complicated task of supplying every
thing from shoes to sugar to a rapid
~ forming army OF over q million
men. telegraphed an appeal to IS lead
Ing hotel proprietors throughout the
country asking the loan of $3.50 chefs
and expert cooks to teach the science
of gastronomics to the kitchens of our
10 new environments.
Now. the Drowned in the oven old
mess sergeants of our regular army
cooking schools-of which four have
1lourislled for many years-are willing
and anxious to sit at the feet of the
capable wizards who have fed Fifth
avenue and fremont street: but so
great Is the faith Of the mess sergeant
in the Manual for Army Cooks. issue
of 1916, that they pause reflectively in
their scientifically arranged pantries
and allow-quite unofficially-that
maybe a few of those fancy chefs will
go back to their hotels with one or
two choice recipes we'll worth trying
on the fovored fellow who always gets
by the plush rope and calls the head
waiter by his first name
Famous Chef Learns Army Cooking.
As a matter of fact NJ. Panchard.
famous chef of the Hotel McAlpin,
New York. was LOANED" while
back In order to gain sufficient knowl-
edge of army cookery to instruct ma
tional guard kitchens in various New
York armories. NJ. Panchard spent
two days at Washington Barracks
where he studied the cuisine for en-
listed men: he went back to New York
with his observations. together with a
copy OF the months menu. Today the
McAlpin serves--by the enthusiastic
recommendation of NJ. Panchard-a
military luncheon which is dupli-
cate OF the noon meal which Uncle
Sam dishes up for his boys. The price
OF this meal is so cents: and it is the
highest compliment which Broadway
can pay the Army's camp and field
mess.
No More "Embalmed" Beef.
In fact. tho day of Civil war hard ;
tack and Spanish war embalmed beef
Is long gone" Emergency rations
of course. the soldier must carry to
tide him over bad situations where
the enemy fire is hotter than the bake
ovens behind the line. But for feed
Ing his armies in barracks and trench.
Trcle Sam has become a domestic
scientist who thinks in terms of nu :
frltive values and a psychologist who
realizes that the stomach's digestive
Juices will not respond unless the
palate telegraphs it's approval to the
brain.
Never before in the worlds history
have commanders OF troops realized
how absolutely an army moves on
its stomach" It would not be going
too far to say that unit in motion is
organized around the commissariat,
Closer than the artillery to the in
fantry. or the aviation division to
either, comes the group of rolling
kitchens" which. their great kettles
boiling merrily all day. so mule drawn
into action behind the marching men.
Soup Is simmering. beef Is stewing,
the classic beans are heating as the
doughty cook wagon bumps along.
When the company halts for noon the
efficient cook is ready to announce
dinner is served" In appearance
It's as simple as the organization of a
dining-car service: and IN actually
many times as complicated.
In the months to come, when our
American rolling kitchens ar,
terched reasonably out of range OH a