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words the Roman rulers placed little credence
in what their physicians told them. Today,
however, there are public men who seek out
the latest dietitianS and pay high prices Tor
their prescriptions. They keep doctors on their
pay rolls to regulate their slim diets
NOWN into the Christian world feasts OF
u fabulous cost quantity and quality con-
tinued which even Oscar would not approve.
Emperor Charles v, powerful ruler of Ave
countries, including Germany, Spain and Italy,
was a slave to his stomach, though he was
brave soldier and splendid cavalryman.' A
dinner of 20 courses including beef, mutton,
game, ham, sausages, all highly seasoned, not
sufficing he would get up twice in the night
for food. He considered himself temperate
drinker, consuming only three bottles Of wine
at dinner, and often disparaged guzzlng coun-
trymen. In his prime he was powerful phys
ical specimen.
In Italy. in 1476, Benedetto Salutatic gave
banquet in Florence for the sons of the King.
There were IL courses of meat, including VEN
ison, pheasant cartridges, capon and blanc
mango.
At about the same time, wrote Filson Young,
culinary historian, England was suffering
period of overeating on the part of the upper
middle classes.
A TYPICAL menu for the Grand Monarch"
n Louis XIV of France included four bowls Of
different kinds of soups, an entire pheasant,
partridge, a salad ham, mutton with broth,
plates of baked goods fruit and hard-boiled
eggs.
Goethe and Schiller were heavy eaters.
Schiller had to be carried home from a ban
quet because he had overeaten~ Goethe drank
Inn kokkI of A., 70 lyaoV
himself in good condition.
In the early history of America the people of
the South and New England States were heavy
and joyful eaters. For breakfast in certain
parts of the South such a spread as this was
served: Fried steak and brown gravy, salt roe
herring, cornmeal battercakes a dish of Nor
folk spots Ga breakfast fish, calves brains,
sausage cakes, morsels of broiled chicken and
six-inch-high hot rolls. And part of this
breakfast, 'sah" was mint julep, frosted
fragrant and outrageous. In 1851 a dinner
was given in Philadelphia, oscar related, served
to 80 distinguished persons. There were II
courses, each a perfect banquet in itself. More
than a hundred items of food were served,
including 10 kinds of fruit, 10 kinds of ice
creams, Is varieties of pastry, eleven vegetables
and as many different meats.
typical menu which Oscar served at Del
monicoS in 1890 is as follows:
MENU
HuitreS
POTAGES
ConSon1n1e q la Thunery
Bisque d'EcrcOisse
(SherrO
HORS D'OEUVRES
TinbaleS a la RothSchild
POISSON
AiQuillette de Bass la Royale
(Sauterne)
RELIEVE
PommeS de Terre Fondante
SelIe dAntilope Ia Tyrolienne
(CLareD
Chour de BrureLeS
ENTREES
Allies de Poulet Cheureuse
Petits POs Pdrisienne
Te7TGpine la Maryland
champagne
Sorbet du Champagne
ROTIS
CanuasbGck Duck aOec Ris SauUage
burgundy
Salad de Lditue
ENTREMETS
PORES a la FeTriere
(Port)
Pieces Montees
Glace Fantasies
GeleS GuT Oranges
FRUITS
PetitS Fours
BonbonS
Cafe
(LiQueurS)
The banquet for Col Lindbergh at the old
Waldorf, affair equal in public sentiment
to any Roman reception to public hero was a
plain dinner that cost only $12 a plate Oscar
said. The menu was much more modesC than
the elaborate dinner noted above
The world may know Oscar or know of him,