COMMENTS BY A FRENCH CHEF

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23883, 10 August 1939, Page 19

COMMENTS BY A FRENCH CHEF

M, Emile Aymoz, master chef at one of London's leading hotels, gives this advice to wives: "A wife who can cook need never fear 'the other woman'— unless, of course, the other woman is a better cook." ,;' • Hers are some of M. Aymoz's comments: English "plain food" usually consists of meat overcooked until all the goodness has departed from it and abundance of heavy and indigestible suet puddings. • The "plain food" served to office workers is more often than not a nutritive nightmare—"l would sooner face a 10-course banquet at the "Mansion House than a good, hearty Englishman's meal of steak pudding, potatoes and greens." " Give me a child's stomach until he is seven and I will give you a superman." 4, 1 believe that the cook is the most romantic person on earth." The most interesting guests for any cook are those who do not have standardised tastes. M. Aymoz ended with a prophecy: "In a few years," he said "the system of domestic service as you and 1 know it will have been swept away, and every wife will have to turn to the cooking-pot."