1940s Archive

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Food Flashes: November 1948

To win a $50 bet, Melanie Bouchelle McCarthy, an Evanston, Illinois house-wife, baked an old-fashioned English fruitcake.
November 1948
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Carving is an Art

The Art of Carving is the science of carving. One must understand anatomy, have a steady hand, a sure eye, and extreme patience.
November 1948
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Along the Boulevards: November 1948

Sherman Billingsley, let it be said at the outset, is an astute and determined businessman as well as being very much of a perfectionist.
November 1948
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Game at Large

When I was in England, how many times I watched the hunters there—red-coated riders on beautiful horses racing after the hounds.
November 1948
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Old Bottles

“As his name is, so is he,” the Bible states, but this was surely not intended even twenty-five centuries ago, to apply to wine.
November 1948
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Along the Boulevards: January 1948

Breakfast is not only a far more important meal in the Far West than it is in the precincts of the Atlantic seaboard, but that it is also a far more enjoyable one.
October 1948
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Food Flashes: October 1948

Salad dressings flock to town from the inns of the countryside.
October 1948
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British Breakfast

I know it is like heresy for me, or any man, to put any people above the French as artists in the fine art of food. Especially the English.
October 1948
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The Last Touch in Sauces: October 1948

At some point in a series of articles on French sauces, it seems to me almost essential to stress the important role played by butter.
October 1948
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Sweet Wine Country

In the summer, except on extraordinarily clear mornings, you can hardly ever see the Sierras from the Valley towns.
October 1948
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