FRENCH COOKING.
INFLUENCE IN ENGLAND. Wherever you come upon the activities of the Free French in this country you will find good French cooking associated with them, or if it does not pertain to them at the start it soon will, writes our London correspondent. One French nurse, Mrs. Albert H. Mitchell, who served in the last war and is married to an Englishman, has turned her house in the country into a convalescent home for Free French troops. So far she has nursed 340 patients in her 20 beds there, all the cases war casualties. French cooking has followed hard upon the heels of the nursing, to the gieat advantage of the convalescents, for Mrs. Mitchell has taught her husband French cookery so successfully that he is now the official chef of the establishment. A few more French chefs in English hospitals and we shall have the whole system of feeding the patients vastly improved! M. Francois Latrv. often described as the greatest chef of the Free French conviction, may well say, as he does, that roast beef no longerbounds our horizons. He is teaching us how to make the daintiest dishes from vegetables during our wartime scarcity of meat. I
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 123, 27 May 1941, Page 10
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