Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-06-24

wine from rejected unripe grapes OF
both colors. hut with an asreeaoie
tango. Not one poor glass of wine.
lost in the pot. as the cook books tell,
says Forest. but listen: When you start
the cooking. let the level of pure wine
be higher than the level OF the sauer-
kraut" Lacking vim girls, any thln
white wine will do. If not too sweet
ish. The rest is your grease. your lard
Your little bags of pepper-grains and
juniper berries. and your five hours
simmering in an old earthen pot-or'
better still warmed up next day
a dish" says the president, mot ele.
giant, but solid. satisfying. healthy. ana
beautifully adapted to the fireless COOK
or. Yes. when not too soaked IN GREASE
Lorraine sauerkraut is the best posi-
BILE of foods. The faculty OF PARIS mas
discovered it
Thousands of French families who
took Forests advice and put up bar
rel of sauerkraut last autumn, We're
able to cook it in hot-box. thanks'
again. to Forest. Last winter the hre-
less cooker was first aid all over the
land. City and country French news
papers print daily or weekly recipes
for tasty fireless cooker dlshes, ana
MAYORS of remote towns engage experts
to give ffreless cooker demonstrations
to their public with free samples But
Louis Forest has never forgotten the
women called him a .'pochete' at the ne
ginning.
II may be in the pocket" he began
daily story but you s"em TO be snort
of fresh herring. The full season VIII
soon be on. Yet herring have practicail
stopped coming to the markets. Lack
of fishermen YOU say. But hasn't the
French navy quantities OF mine sweep
erS and guardboatS against submarines
Let the men fish herring in between
times"
:: i
mi tn pi Np
the order. and fresh herring. which had
been at II cents. fell to 3 cents week
afterward.
Another time the epicurean savant
made a trip to the front. He saw hun
dreds of "territoriar' soldiers standing
guard along the railroad tracks, unoc-
cupied, time-killing yet necessary. one
here, one there. every 100 PAGES.
THE railroad sentries are bored and
idle" he wrote IN his Echo. Let each
cultivate n little garden and he will
have potatoes for his family. More.
therere groups and groups of idle sol
dierS eVeyw here behind the front IN
occupied and waiting, hundreds of thou
sands. And the German prisoners also.
Give them all seeds and implements and
perhaps We'll ali have potatoes.
1t was the first start of the soldiers
gardens.
1t was the beginning of vast move
mcnt whose conta s,ion gained the front
itself. and, organized by Maxine Due
rock and the department of agriculture.
has grown to military depot cultivation,
prisoners Edcns. high school boy-and-
girl truck patch collectivities. vacation
farming. the planting of the Paris for
tificationS and. In word, the entire
back to the land" movement OF city
folks. who had never been there. but
doing fin ri thank
Il may be in the pocket, he began
another day. but why do You throw
away delicious salad? You pay good
cash for worse. Don't YOU know that
markable salad? 1t used to be a gas
tronomic secret of the Hundred. This is
how you do it. (And he told them)
The next day, he had them started
Housewives of Paris. you throw
away your carrot-tops. The garbage
cans are full OF them. Now, carrot-tops.
cooked in a way I'll tell YOU. make a
Young vegetable whose springtime per-
fume haunts the palate. The cream
sauce can be replaced by etc. etc"
After which. daily. he presented five
or six other perfectly good comesti-
hles." which even the economical
French, in their land of plenty. had
gotten into the habit of discarding.
but which epicures have rediscovered
or received in family tradition" This
latter phrase cinched the furore. be
cause the gastronomic celebrity of the
president made his simplest suggestions
succulent Secrets heretofore kept from
the multitude by the rich and happy,
whose god is their belly.
No one man. organ. association or
service has attained a titne
of so many reforms, and in so few
words, as the president of the elegant
eaters.
1t was Forest who persuaded French
families to make coal out of newspapers
and cellar sweepings by soaking and
drying in hard balls.
From the first he was against the
take" or government-fixed price for
standard commodities. Lower the price