Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1907 — Give the Chef a Chance. [ARTICLE]

Give the Chef a Chance.

It is my belief that the man who has dined in the best Parisian restaurants without finding them wonderful, says Julian Street, is either a dyspeptic or a self reliant Ignoramus who did not give the chef a chance. You know the story of the miner who, having “struck It rich,” arrived in New York and, anxious to “do It right,” went to Delmonico’s for dinner. After studying the menu with growing despair he turned to a patient waiter with, "Just bring me $45 worth of ham and eggs!” Some of our fellow countrymen give similar performances In Paris. I have known them to go to famous restaurants and order plain broiled chicken or steak and fried potatoes, dishes so elemental that the greatest chef could hardly cook them better than Maggie In the flat at home could do It. A Parisian chef broiling a chicken makes a pathetic figure. The asking him te do so is like requesting a learned professor of higher mathematics to add a laundry bill.—Travel Magazine.