EATING CARNIVAL TO LAST A WEEK

Evening Star, Issue 17793, 15 October 1921, Page 11

EATING CARNIVAL TO LAST A WEEK

PROOF OF Till-: J’tiDDLNa IN FRENCH CUISINE. An eating carnival lias been organised in Paris for the forthcoming winter. A newspaper campaign alleging decline in the French cuisine has resulted in blame being apportioned: (1) To tin: customers; (2) to the restaurateurs and hotelkeepers. The charges made, against the clients ox the big restaurants are that they rush their meals, and by ordering dishes course by course, instead of planning the whole meal on sitting down, do no-1. give the diets a chance i'o do them justice. On tiro other hand, proprietors of the restaurants are blamed lor failing to keep up Iho historic quality ot French cooking. Hut tho heads of the hi? restaurants repudiaia the charge, ami. together with a tew noted gourmands, have readily adopted the suggestion that they should spend a week entirely devoted. to preparing and eating the best French dishes, following the classic, regime laid down by 51. Hriliat Bavarin, I lie famous writer on food topics, who, early las’ century, played the principal P :| rt in elaborating modern French cooking ideas.