Judge, 1934-03 · page 11 of 36
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# "High Hat" - Judge Magazine Article This is a profile of **Henri Charpentier**, a renowned French chef relocating his restaurant from Long Island to New York City. The piece satirizes the pretentiousness of high-end dining culture through exaggerated reverence for his culinary methods. The satire mocks: 1. **Snobbish dining culture**: The repeated insistence that one "dines" at Charpentier's rather than merely "eats"—a class distinction. 2. **Foodie affectation**: Absurd claims about mushrooms that "speak French with an Oxford accent" and vegetables rushed by police escort to preserve "vitamines." 3. **Obsessive perfectionism**: Charpentier's extreme measures (rising at dawn, personally selecting fish, shooting game in the head) presented as both admirable and ridiculous. The accompanying illustrations show diners at the restaurant and a humorous nautical scene, reinforcing the theme of ostentatious dining pretense.
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Judge HIGH He’s a Cuisine of Ours to Mushrooms FTER 20 yrs. at Lynbrook, which : gnons Cepes Morilles to you is in Long Island, Mr. Henri ARSTOCKATIC AWSHRoOn. —will be imported in season. These Charpentier, probably the most skilful ire cultivated mushrooms, indeed. They and meticulous cuisinier in America, is picking up his pots are gathered at certain phases of the moon from their spe- & pans and moving them over to a new stand at R ¥. i Is 1 he: 1 olive trees and grape arbors which is in New York There he will hang his shing nian: trict, which is in France. As you see, Café Henri Charpentier—right smack on the walls of the new these are mush which hardly have had the horsey Maison Francaise and make room for 350 diners. The ter- background of the ordinary mushroom, they are so. culti- en court (which of vated and aristocratic, they practically speak French with i vops) will allow for 200 outdoor feed- an Oxford accent. It is familiar French legend that they rs and when it rains, or geals—there is room for 150 are sat up with at nights when ill (Page 22, plea In other words, the je menage will echo the ind atmosphere of the Café de Paris itself, which ) However, one should not mention feedbag & the new fé in th ame breath. It is sacrile: vic. One + not eat at Charpentier’s—one dines. the science of astronomy, so is there For M. Charpie has never been ot ture’s best when it comes to preparin cal. He is indeed the Santayana—the idealist—of the k range. Thus e will ir r wn wines, serving Champagne here ever was one. His vege tables he will rush direct from vine to pot—garnering them fre Long Island by fast motor and. pol escort, The vegetable will practically drop from the vine into the pot— which is the only way to gobble the vitamines while they still thrive, Fish, M. Henri will take no chances with. Personally he will rise with the sun, and bravi ull the chills of the dawn, mosey down to the fishing boats themselves as they mosey into the Bay (stopping on the way at the meat market to get the right steer and ewe). As for game. it will be shot neatly in the head in order to preserve certain secret vir- ~~ ONE DOES NOT EAT AT CHARPENTIER S —ONE DINES comicbooks.com