TEMPTING THE APPETITE
HOT WEATHER DIFFICULTY REMARKS OF A FRENCHMAN Paul Reboux, in the most modern of French, cookery books, an amusing satirical set of dialogues, interspersed with delicious recipes, has the following words to say on the importance of tempting jaded appetites in the height of summer: "How hot it is! Sweltering pedestrians. walk languidly under a burning. sky. The asphalt squelches beneath the tread. Steam rises from the spraying water-carts as it does in a Turkish bath. On a stifling: evening you cannot possibly treat your family as though it were winter. Their appetites are feeble. Drink is the only thing worth thinking about. You should provide for them as though you were Irvine in a country accustomed to dog daj?s. This can be done. Everything in the menu, should he easily digested. It should contain nothing unreasonably heavy. B£ the time this cool meal is over the weariness of the day will bo forgotten,, the stars will be out, and warmth will only persist in the gratitude <M your famiily."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21414, 11 February 1933, Page 18
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173TEMPTING THE APPETITE New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21414, 11 February 1933, Page 18
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