1906 A Bachelor's Cupboard

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CHAPTER XI

" Every animal but one keeps to one dish." The Spectator.

— or

Every bachelor

an epicure

Is

thinks he is. According to time and season and environment, the single man who has dabbled in cooking at will tell you that he has " the *' show you," as though you w^ere straight from St. Louis. Even the New England farmer has his specialties, which are apt, in summer, to include a famous dish of pepper grass, lettuce, and mustard leaves tossed together with salt, pep- per, vinegar, and sugar, as a salad course; and from *' Reuben " up to the Marquis de Dion, with his suc- culent snails or " Escargots de Bor- deaux," he runs the gamut of edibles. The cowboy on the Western plains all best thing ever " — then promptly proceeds to

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