Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 April 1900 — TO INTRODUCE CORNBREAD. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

TO INTRODUCE CORNBREAD.

Kentuckian Who Will Serve This American Product in Paris. The establishment of an American restaurant at the Paris exposition, in which the serving of cornbrcad in ail styles

will be a special feature, may result in solving a problem that has baffled for years the corn growers of the country aud ultimately result in replacing the hard, black bread now so much in use on the coutinent with the cheap and healthful “corn pone.”

Maj. Simon Peter Gross of Islington, Ky. f who will have charge 0/ the restaurant, is one of the most unique characters of the State. During the World’s Fair he conducted a restaurant and bar in the Kentucky building, serving Kentucky dishes and driuks, and was nnable to accommodate the crowds who flocked to his section of the structure to be fed on Kentucky fare. At the Paris exposition he proposes to have jet black negro waiters, negro cooks and to set the famous “Blue Grass 1 ’ dinner, cornbread being the principal article of diet. He will take along one of the best cornbread cooks ip America, whose business R will be .0 see that every piece of this kind of bread goes on the tabel just right. He will also have a noted negro chicken cook. If the Europeans take to the cornbread as it is expected they will, it will mean a big call for American corn and thus great profit will accrue to the growers of the middle West who have been unable to find a ready market for their crops thus far.

MAJOR GROSS.