FUTURIST COOKING

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2486, 12 June 1915, Page 11

FUTURIST COOKING

Of course it may be a story formulated by France's enemies, to prejudice the human race against her and prove her the greatest barbarian of all, or -it may be the attempt of a desperate journalist in Paris to find some combination or permutation of words to elude tho censor successfully; or, again, it may bo a message in code communicating, un.seen though in plain sight, the details of some diabolical plot from whose consequences the world will presently tremble to its core. It purports to be some account _, of the discovery of "futurist cooking," but no intelligent reader will quit© believe that, states a writer in an American magazine. Despite the horrors that have been done in tho name of war, no one who has looked upon a futurist painting will believe that any man would purposely introduce anything of that sort into another human being's interior economy. It would be beyond the pale of barbarism. Nevertheless the Memphis "News Scimitar" comments with some seriousness upon tho matter:— The triune has been completed. We have been givon futurist art and futurist Literature, and now we have been blest with futurist cooking. As was to have been expected, Paris is the centre and starting point of this last innovation, as it was of the other two, and some genius over there has compounded dishes that the average man will have to cultivate a taste for before he will bo likely to enjoy them. One dish is composed of tomatoes and brandy, which might bo tolerable if the ingredients were reasonably well divided, so as to leave a preponderance of the fluid. A popular soup has been compounded, the distinguishing feature of which is that it is flavoured with codliver oil. Herrings are mashed in raspberry jam and s,erved with whipped cream, and beef is cooked in cumin and served with bananas stuffed with cheese. The new order cooks the vegetables an naturel wit-bout scraping them, and these are served in petroleum jelly. A choice dish is composed of canned fish eaten with a sauce consisting of oil. vinegar, Yorkshire relish, salt, and pepper, and what remains of this sauce after th<) fish is disposed of is poured over Christmas plum pudding. Other appetising dishes are beefsteak w-ith strawberry jam, fried salmon with marmalade, roast mutton with currant jelly. Perhaps the most 'extremely futurist of the futurist dishes is strawberries served with other instead of cream, and anyone who does not like this can have strawberries served with vinegar poured over them.