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STUDY IN PREPAREDNESS
M.
LYND'S SATURDAY ESSAY
ROBERT LYND'S
into two classes. First, we may
This is
The Fish
Always Tastes
The Same
the thought of the dropped jaws in the past seem to have enjoyed of the diners at sight of their their meals as a rule. If I knew unspeakable and uneatable TH much about diaries and diarists as Lord Ponsonby, I
dishes,
is no
venous follows who simply did not know what it was to be ser- ved with a tough steak or under- done mutton or a section of sal- mon that had been boiled and
Why, for example, except in might be able to recall some com- order to torture gourmets, do plaints about 'cooking from the P.s have been com- COMPLAINTS against
food may be divided cooks beat and carve boiled cab writings of the famous dead. "As plaining of the food.
bage into those loathsome trian- it is, I think of most of the cat- that is served to dislike the food itself whether gles, the very look of which ers of the past as cheerful, ra- them in the House of Com- it is well cooked or not, as many makes one feel that one mons. They have been com- people dislike cod, artichokes longer hungry? It required no very greatplaining in particular of and blanc-mange.
Many people, reduced by ex- Jamount of imaginative power to
to despair, are con- the fish which "always looks
11 complaint only perience experience on Thursday night
The vinced that there is no other way reboiled every evening for a against life, however. something of the sensation of land tastes the same."
of cooking and serving cabbage, other sort of complaints are I do not know how far this 9109—In'a little French Casino ..... Primo Scala Accordian Band, hopelessness and helplessness which must be the lot of so Will you remember ("Maytime").
is true of fish in the House of more serious, These occur when Yet the cabbage is an honest many thousands of people to-1 day, and to-morrow, who are in Commons, but it is true of fish food that we should enjoy in its and catable vegetable, even after Primo Scala Accordian Band, danger of bombing from the air in a good many places outside perfect state has been converted the first flush of its spring tend. "God sends meat, but the Devil Even so, I doubt whether any or some form of attack from the House of Commons. It is into duli or repellent dish that erness, and I for one maintain Sends cooks," is a fairly old one.
the appetite and that. a well-cooked cabbage is ... Len Greenland or sea.
Hongkung's first certainly true of the fish in the effective "black-out" was more railway dining-cars on one or
leaves in its place only indigna- preferable to a water-logged
enuliflower. .Billy Cotton's Orch,
than a valuable test of a phase two lines that I could name.
tion or despair. of our defences. It was a prac- tical lesson for thousands in
9110 The Merry-Go-Round broke down
Where are you?
9112-Mclodies of the Month. No. 6
9128-Moon at Sea-Fox Trot
Let us be sweethearts over again.
9132-When the Harvest Moon is Shining
In an Old Cathedral Town.
Joe Peterson,
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It has often struck me that
of the thoroughfare? Or even series of lectures at the China a little one? Panic, very likely. Fleet Club on Monday last many
takes away
It is true that. the cook is not
ago.
week.
It is true that the proverb
previous generation contained
80
many people who grumble about food as our own.
When the diaries of men now.
Rhine maidens.
from the cold
the necessity of co-operation in the cooks in dining-cars must always to blame for this. Some-
BUT, if one is in a com- living are ultimately published plaining mood, one can I am sure they will teem with times of emergency. The drone have some special process for times the damage is done before of an invisible aircraft. the extracting the flavour from fish the food reaches the kitchen. find a good many things to com- references to fish, vegetables stabbing fingers of the search before serving it.
complained I do not Saintsbury
that the some plain about besides cabbage, and everything else lights, and crawling. dim-lit mind this so much when the years ago that sausages were The beef, for example, that by hand of man-or woman-can traffic and the up-turned faces S. MOUTRIE & Co., Ltd. of tens of thousands of people, fish is cod, for cod seems to me no longer what they used to be, some miracle has been made as spoil by cockery. I wish I could of these n peep into one unconsciously spoke in to have no flavour that is worth and, undoubtedly, a good many insipid as the gravy that is ser- get
sausages are not. Nor do I ved with it; the York-Building-
sweetbreads diaries, I am sure it would con- Chater Road,whispers, lent a somewhat dis preserving. But why make the
turbing-air-of-realism-to-the
-think-that-the-ordinary-smoked-that-have-been ̄ ingeniously con- tain bitter accounts of the soggy choicer fishes taste like rod that experiment. The nervous Ex-
haddock or kipper compares in verted into a dish of
served at the citement of the crowd could be has lost what wretched flavour
gutta scrambled eggs sensed. What would have hap it once possessed? This is one kipper of thirty or forty years which an
flavour with the haddock or percha; the Lancashire hotpot in hotel breakfast, of the leathery pened in Nathan Road at 10 of the mysteries of travel.
assortment of bare tongue served p.m. if someone had set off a
bones flaunt it among the pota- buffet at lunch, of the tinned giant firecracker in the middle!
toes in faintly-tinted water; and spinach that appeared on the -worst crime of all, perhaps table at dinner, of the white It might have been shortlived; will probably have drafted, in
ON N the whole, however, the apple-tart in which the crust coffee in which fragments of the but there was no question of the their own minds, tentative general mass of the people be-schemes for the organisation of ration of the
It is not the deterio has been cooked separately from skin of milk floated about like ing ripe for it. How much more their office staffs to meet the makes philosophers mourn, but
food itself that the fruit. There is nothing to dangerous the situation, how emergency of bombing or gas ||
compare with the hideousness of much greater the risk of attack.
The Government ob- the way in which it is prepared a triangle of boiled cabbage ex- stampede, had
the air raid viously has some plan in mind in too many hotel kitchens and cept the hideousness of a trian-
IF women loved food as alarm been a reality. From this whereby heads of firms and restaurant kitchens.
men do, the deplorable incident the observant will have their subordinates will organise
gle of bogus apple-tart.
state of affairs that produces, learned, then, the desirability units and educate staffs in the There are, everyone will agree, Sometimes, when I am faced these complaints could, of course, of drilling the community in the work to be done to combat tire plenty of first-class hotels and with one of these dishes, I won- never have arisen. For, where- steps to be taken in emergen- and poison fumes during the cies.
but restaurants; day. The plan will be doubly
are der whether men of other ages as a man has the courage to com- in which I sometimes had as much to complain about plain about food only to his The disciplining of crowds is valuable if it envisages some others
sort of instruction to the Chin- think the cooks must be Sadists, at table as we have. Most of friends or in the secrecy of a simplified if there is some cer- ese community which can be taking a malevolent delight in the people who wrote about food diary, a woman equally addicted tainty that in moments of stress they will react in a pre-people and applied by night. dictable fashion. By training the populace, it should be pos-mind the public that although Once again it is as well to re- sible to make any mass move these precautions are aimed at ment almost automatic. If men and women are drilled in anno immediate throat, they are appointed task, they will at-directed against it very definite tempt to carry it out even in an has not arrived in the past is danger. Because the emergency extremity of fear. It has be-
110 excuse for denying its come a matier of habit, a sort
Procrastination in existence. of reflex action. It is when R crowd has no object in view such a matter cannot be con- except blind flight and a wild doned. It is the duty of every
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to food would send the dishes back to the kitchen till she got something that was not only eat- able but agreeable to the palate and the eye.
Since women refuse to take a proper interest in food, how- ever, the next best thing is for the grumblers to have the M.P.s on their side. M.P.8 are the men who above all others get liable to become number-one gin to think seriously about food, things done; and, if M.P.s be-
Christmas Hampers. This is A Leopard may not be able are to change his spots, but this is the season when Yaumati Cat Is
desire to find a hole to hide in intelligent citizen to exert him the sort of obstacle we that it becomes ungovernable. self to help any precautionary always able to surmount. That is panic, To prevent such scheme which the Government
these
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a contingency it would seem introduces to work as smoothly
Lugard Rond seemed to be a fox! necessary to organise some sys- as possible. Preparedness en- tem of training, to adopt some tails precautions, and unleas well-conceived plan of action In
are systematically and popular point of vantage when which every member of the conscientiously studied and per- the lights were out. We ob- community will have some part, fected, their application will not served quite a lot ourselves,
success thint though it be nothing more than meet with the
口 This is a going home by the quickest moans protection,
There will be some excuse for time for study. The application route.
of the knowledge to be gained blue noses this winter, with conl Representatives of the gen-may never be required, but at a dollar-fifty per scuttle, eral public have already been least Hongkong will be introduced to
We think it about time that the practical richer for the pence of mind
Golf Club an methods of combatting gas and which comes with the assurance the Hongkong the consequences of bombing that everything possible has nounced what exactly is to be Of the several hundreds of men been done to ensure the accurity bogey for feminine fashion in round the lumps. Why not blow those chefs play up to my weak-
Incast who attended the first of a of the people.
the
shorts,
O
គ 口
we may see before long revolu-
We understand that at one
tionary changes in the kitchen. "Black-Out" party, a lady kissed!
After all, several of them have her husband for five minutes already noticed that the flah al- without discovering ¡L.“
ways tastes the same. That is in promising beginning.
Not that I care much about Commenting on the "Black- Out" a contemporary states "It food myself; but I like grumb- may be possible to restrict the ling about it. And how some of beams by means of funnels
them out?
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