1906 A Bachelor's Cupboard

A BACHELOR'S CUPBOARD A Chat on Cheese

favorite English sandwich, while fresh whole wheat bread with slices of American cream cheese and English mustard is " not to be sneezed at."

" Cheese and bread make the cheek red."

German.

is at last being dignified with The daily papers are cartooning

Cheese, like tobacco,

literature of its own.

the " Cheshire Cheese," in the *' Dreams of a Welsh Rabbit," and, if you please, Wine Office Court off Fleet Street in London, where Dr. Johnson ate toasted cheese and pudding and drank his musty ale, has published an interesting history of this, the most perfect old tavern existing in London, its title being '' The Book of the Cheese." Goldsmith, who lived nearby, used to sit there with Dr. Johnson, and there are many souvenirs shown of the two famous litterateurs. And the cheese? Was there ever anything to com- pare with the toasted cheese one has there? It's an idealized sort of rabbit, served up in little square tins on slices of toast and brought in sizzling and set before one on the rough board bench with a mug of musty or a pitcher of ale and porter mixed and frothing over The secret of the toasted cheese is, like that of the pudding, jealously guarded, and it is said that but one man in London ever know^s at one time just how the trick is done. But it's a morsel that is well worth crossing the Atlantic for, provided one isn't satisfied with his own chafing dish cheese stunts. that delightful old inn deliciously.

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