Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1887 — American Cooks and Cooking. [ARTICLE]

American Cooks and Cooking.

From the dreadful corned beef and cabbage and the fearful fishballs of crude American cookery, the family of Delmonico has, by degrees, led the American public to the consideration of higher things. The favorite dishes of the great republic have been concentrated in New York, and recent arrivals have been hospitably challenged to compare anything in the old world with them. Politeness prevents such comparisons, which would hardly be in favor of either hemisphere. In fish and game, despite its wide area of river and prairie, America can in no way compare with the raw products of this country. But it has its specialties. The oysters of Blue Point and Shrewsbury River may not be denied, any more than the canvas-back nourished on the marshes of the Potomac, the terrapin captured on the shore of the Delaware, the snapping turtle from the fur West, the gumbo soup of New Orleans, or the pampano fish which rejoiceth the Mexican Gulf. What tho Delmonicos have done is to bring the enjoyments of the two hemispheres into combination. They have known how to make the clams, the oysters, the sheepheacl, and other strange fishes familiar to the great a:my of gastronomists wh® reach Manhattan Island.— Lor' 1 ott »