COOKERY IN THE CLOUDS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 227, 25 September 1935, Page 11

COOKERY IN THE CLOUDS.

The world's highest kitchen is to be found on the sixty-fourth storey of the R.C.A. building in New York—a gigantic pile owned by the Radio Corporation of America, which houses New York s a theatre, and the Rockefeller offices. It is a model of perfection, with everv convenience the most exacting housewife could dream of, and serves three restaurants and six private dining rooms. Sometimes it is literally in the clouds—on days when the mists obscure the top of tiie colossal buildings. On other days one can see for 50 miles in all directions. The walls arc of spotless white. Tliirty-five cooks attend to indi-. vidual jobs, at which they are all specialists, and each lias his own range. There is a range for sauces, another for roasts, one for broils, and another for frying. Eight pastrycooks work in a baking shop, which is equipped with material for producing everything from petit fours to plum puddings. The dishwashing department is especially complete. All soiled crockery first passes an attendant. It is then scraped, sorted and dispatched to various machines for washing syid sterilising. The china goes one place', glassware to another, and silverware to another. The scullery is used solely for the washing of pots and pans. The entire kitchen occupies about 8000 square feet of floor space.