Evening star., 1937-04-18

NEW ORLEANS, LA.
~ AN President Roosevelt come to
New Orleans and not pause
long enough here to partake
of one of those repasts for
which this old city is famous the
world over?
Past Presidents, Kings and poten-
tates, and the high and mighty from
many lands and climes have wined and
dined in the towns fabulous French
restaurants and carried away memories
of epicurean delights to last t. Hfetime.
Will Franklin D. Roosevelt yield to
the temptation with which La Nouville
Orleans even now is plotting tc lure
him and agree to stay while?
As this is written, the President plans
to pause in New Orleans only long
enough to greet the crowds who will
be on hand to see him pass through"
on his way to a fishing trip in Gulf
Coast waters. But the city fathers
are hoping their offer of such hospi-
tality as only New Orleans can give
may yet persuade him to change his
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have so long awaited to entertain him.
The great game fighting fish may be
waiting for him out in the Gulf, they
say, but here in New Orleans the chefs
are waiting for him. And these
Michael Angeles of the cuisine are
thumbing their recipes for MASTER
pieces in hopeful anticipation.
Whenever the news has arrived In
the past that President of the United
States is planning to visit New Orleans,
a far-away look has crept into the eyes
of chefs known for their products in
world capitals. It's the same look that
comes into the eyes of poet when he
feels the omens and portents Of a
great poem getting ready to be born.
Clear back to the days Of Lucullus in
ancient Rome the thoughts of those
chefs have fitted as they prepared to
produce something that would make
culinary history. Mostly they've done
it. And have the Presidents enjoyed
it, Whatever the diet the White
House physician has prescribed, they've
kicked dietary discretion out the win
dow. They've eaten what was placed
before them, and loved it. They've
drunk what goes with it, and it
wasn't what came out of the old oaken
bucket that hangs in the we'll, either
President Roosevelt may set the
presidential record for the size of his
catch this fishing trip. But if he sets
the presidential record for eating in
New Orleans, it'll be worth keeping
In the book where all great records CO.
For the presidential predecessors Of
r. D. r. have given him some mark to
shoot at! His fifth-cousin-on
moved started that grand parade of
Presidents who feasted like kings.
New Orleans always loved cham
pion. And in New Orleans have been
preserved the official records of what
the Presidents of the United States
have eaten within the city limits, for
they were champion trenchermen all,
as long as they stayed in range of a
New Orleans chef and cellarer
IT WAS october %, 1905, that Presi-
dent Theodore Roosevelt came to
New Orleans to show the world that
he believed New Orleans had con-
quered yellow fever, which it had.
And the citizens gave President
Theodore Roosevelt light little lunch
con at the old Grunewald Hotel, now
the Roosevelt. Here's what T. r.
faced and demolished:
He started OF with . few nibbles
Of olives, salted almonds and celery.
He followed that with consomme de
Volatile en- tasse. Then he tackled a
pompano grilled maitre d'hotel, gar
nished with cucumbers and pommes
Parisienne. He washed this down
with some excellent Barncastle Doctor.
Then they served him cold pate,
Galantine de Chapon Truffe, a la
Lucullus, and what r. r. did to that
trufne-stuffed capon is what Admiral
Dewey did to Manila-he. just steamed
In and took it. And with this course
he drank Chateau Latour Blanche.
Then he tackled Sarcelle au Cresson,
which is teal duck garnished with
watercress, and the waiter took away
. plate of very rare bones while T. R.
was drinking the last Of his Louis
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