Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 December 1892 — A CREOLE KITCHEN. [ARTICLE]

A CREOLE KITCHEN.

It Will Be Shown by Louisiana Women at the World’s Fair. The pet project of the Woman’s Auxiliary, the Creole Kitchen, of which so much has been said here at home, and in the North, where the papers devoting columns to World’s Fair news have written so pleasantly of this proposed exhibit of the Louisiana cookery, is at last an assured fact, and a great big sigh of relief was heaved by. the ladies when they read that their Creole Kitchen would be all right, says a writer in the New Orleans Times-Democrat. Out of this project, which has passed through trials, has growu another plan, which is yet in embryo, but which if carried out will be throughly appreciated by Louisianians sojourning for any length of time in Chicago d ;ring the fair. In all the plans that have been formulated for the convenience of visitors at the fair, there seems to have been no particular provision made for the accommodation of the hundreds of colored people who will be among the visitors. The Louisiana women will take with them to the fair as an indispensable adjunct to the Creole Kitchen a full corps of colored servants and cooks, Creole darkies from the prairies in the interior, who will gaze open-eyed on the great exposition, after a lifetime spent in the green fields of this State. What to do with this colored help in the matter of providing accommodations for them near to the grounds has puzzled the brains of the supporters and advocates of the Creole Kitchen movement, but this difficulty is in the way of being solved by the plan of one of the bright women interested in the Louisiana work, who has suggested a Louisiana dormitory building at the fair where the colored help could be lodged. This seemed a very likely solution, and negotiations have been entered into for the securing of a house in Chicago with a large number of rooms to accommodate Louisiana visitors to the fair. If everything goes well the bargain will be closed for a thirty-six room house, with an attic and basement, the lower floor being used for the homes of the help employed the Creole Kitchen, and the other rooms to be rented out to Louisianians, by the sale of stock, as the rooms have been disposed of in the Woman’s Dormitory Building. One of our wealthy women has promised to be responsible for the rental of the house, if the indications are that the house will be filled with Louisiana people during the fair, and it is very probable that in a few days all the arrangements will hare been completed.