New Britain herald., 1925-01-16
EATING YOUR WAY
 AROUND THE WORLD
Picked Chrysantbemum Leaves
 Weirdest of Earth's Dishes
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Washington, D. C., Jan. 16.--New Years dinner which constitutes one of the most widely observed of mans feasts, is. not past. That is, 1t Is not If you can put aside a notion all too easily acquifed--that your way is necessarily the only way. As a matter of fact, according to a bull letin from the Washington, U. C.. headquarters of the National Geo. graphic society there are four very widely observed New Year Days those of Christlandom, Islam, the Hebrews and the Chinese--and numerous others celebrated by smaller groups.
 If a mean were struck of the vari- ous dates. what might loosely be called the worlds average New Year Day" would fall several months farther along toward summer than January l.
 The bulletin briefly traces the gas- tronomic trail of New Year dinners and other feasts through number of countries.
 Side Dishes Show Distance From
 Home
 Dining in the homes of England and western Europe, the American abroad on New Years Day would find the chief dish reminder of home. Turkey, duck or goose makes the most popular roast in England, while plum pudding-this time with generously favored brandy sauce-usually tops off the meal.
 F"In France and Spain, our Ameri- can explorer of the worlds tables would again encounter the turkey but there he would find the capon and the pheasant sharing its popu- larity. Methods of preparation and side dishes, however, would tell him unmistakably that he was getting farther afield. Truffles, chestnuts and olives are important ingredients of the dressing of the New Years fowls in those Latin countries. In France snails might be numbered among the viands that supplemen, the piece de resistance. and in Spain the meal starting, say, with almond soup, would be sure to in- clude among the secondary dishes a sopa, rice cooked in olive oil, with tomatoes and other vegetables and perhaps bits of meat.
 Tn northern Africa, whatever the date of the feast, it would be sure to have as its central dish cous. cous. This consists of wheat pre-. pared like fine grains of rice steamed with lamb or mutton, and vegetables if the latter are obtain. able. 1t is served in large, al. most hemisphericab .basket-dish SC closely woven that 1t holds water About this container the diners sit taking their food swlthstheir fingers Olives, dates, and figs help to com, plete the meal; and ,. on occasion there may be q dish Of locusts-- grasshonpers--propared with wheat The legs, wings and heads are re moved before the creatures art cooked.
 Queer Mixture in Tibet.
 Among the Zulus of southerr Africa whole oxen or bullocks arc roasted at feast time: and in centra Africa the feast of feasts is roasted elephants foot.
 Tn Persia. as throughout all tn, Near and Central East mutton hold first place. There the accepted epicurean trick is to cool the mea in pomegranate juice. Rice i cooked in grease, and the two com bined form the famous pilau. Witt the pilau is served the thin, crisp papcrike bread of Persia.
 ''If ones culinary investigation extend to backward Tibet he finds ; strange combination of barbarian which shows itself in the eating 0