1940s Archive

Food Flashes

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Green coffee, good coffee, a blend of fine Bogotas, sells ten pounds for $5 packaged and mailed to Europe; combination packages of tea, coffee, and cocoa are made up to order. The cocoa is a Dutch chocolate powder already blended with milk and sugar, selling price 50 cents for a pound. These overseas beverage boxes are bringing big business to the Empire Coffee Mills, 323 West 42nd Street, New York City.

Smoked wild turkey à la King and a smoked wild turkey pâtéare being marketed by Samuel Martin of Seattle and are selling in the delicacy stores of the larger cities from the West to the East Coast. In New York City these products are handled by the Vendome Table Delicacies, 415 Madison Avenue, Charles and Company, 340 Madison Avenue, and Enoch's Delicatessen, 872 Madison Avenue, the price around $1.49 for 7 ounces of the a la King and $1.49 for 3 ½ ounces of the rich smooth pâté.

It's a chip off the old block. A novel little chopping stand, we mean. made in the form of a butcher's block to save your table surface from nicks and stains. Just the right size when slicing a lemon or mincing a few twigs of parsley or dicing an onion. This gay addition to salad or bar tray is made of hard wood with a waxed surface. The width is four and one-half inches, the price $1.25 plus 15 cents postage, mail ordered; or pick it up by hand at Edith Chapman's, 168 East 33rd Street.

Have you tried crushed olives? These are olives just cracked but not split wide open, cured in a sauce made with olive oil, vinegar, garlic, and spices. Twelve ounces, 65 cents, Mirco brand at Dussourd and Filser, 960 Madison Avenue.

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