Life, 1921-03-17 · page 24 of 40
Life — March 17, 1921 — page 24: what you’re looking at
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This is humorous satire by Montague Glass mocking the mystique of fancy restaurant cuisine. The joke: elaborate French dishes aren't actually difficult—they just require absurd, impractical steps presented as recipes. Examples include buying an entire farm to make sausages, or cooking a veal cutlet in Milan after frying potatoes in Paris. The "Wine Jelly" recipe hilariously demands repealing Prohibition and multiple California liquor laws just to obtain sherry. **The underlying social critique:** Americans were intimidated by European haute cuisine and pretentious restaurant culture. Glass satirizes this by suggesting the "secret" to fancy food is simply unnecessary complexity and pretension, not genuine culinary skill. The illustrations show a sophisticated woman and cat, emphasizing the class anxiety around dining sophistication. The page also includes unrelated humor columns (about a glum bride, a spectacled spaniel), typical of Life magazine's miscellaneous satirical format.
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Follow this Guide to Gastronomy O DOUBT you have wondered how you could cook in your own home many of the dishes you have tasted in hotels and restaurants. At any rate you may have wondered how such dishes are prepared, and we have endeavored to set down in as simple language as possible the formulas for. the more familiar items on the hotel bill of fare. Deer Foot Farm Sausages with Mashed Potatoes. Buy a small farm—the old Van Etten Place or River View Farm—change its name to Deer Foot Farm, raise hogs on it, kill them, make sausages and serve hot with mashed potatoes. Soup & L'Oignon Peel and slice six large onions, place in hot water and allow to simmer for five’ minutes. Add six large onions and bring briskly to a boil. When these are tender, stir in six large onions, allow to cook slowly for half an hour, and just before serving add six large onions. Roast Milk-Fed Chicken Have ready one medium-size quart of milk and one chicken. Feed the milk to the chicken and kill chicken. Roast in quick oven and serve hot. Hot Consommé en Tasse Pour the contents of one quart can of water into boiling water and cook until By Montague Glass tender. Strain, heat to boiling and add from two to three cups of rather diluted water, Turn into a double boiler and heat together for half an hour or longer, and serve hot. A little more water may be required if too much has cooked away. Cételette de Veau Milanaise—Pommes Parisiennes Have ready one small veal cutlet, three medium-size potatoes and transportation to Milan via Paris. Fry potatoes in deep fat in Paris. Cook the cutlet for half an hour in Milan. Serve hot. Frozen Pudding This is easily prepared. Take one me- dium-size pudding. Reduce the tempera- ture of its cubic contents to thirty-two de- grees Fahrenheit by Axilla and serve cold, Wine Jelly Dissolve the contents of one small box of gelatine in hot water. Repeal the Eighteenth Amendment of the Constitu- tion of the United States. Repeal the Volstead Act to enforce the same and the facts amendatory thereof. Repeal Chapter 341 of the Laws of 1918 entitled “ An Act o Prohibit the Manufacture and Sale of Vinous, Malt and Spirituous Liquors in Certain Towns and Villages of the State of California.” Add two tablespoonfuls of California Sherry and allow to set. His Gloom’s Effect RS. LESSNER: Do you think true that poor Lydia hasn’t smiled since her marriage? Mrs. Suortwett: I think it’s very likely, You know her husband is a pro- fessional humorist. SPANIEL in Boston goes about the streets wearing spectacles; showing hat environment is not without its effect even in the animal kingdom, Mat film Me moth like | Me their in th chop havit 1 [QAR comicbooks.com