Nothing to Eat But Food
"| HE fourth course in 3YA’s Pleasures of the Table enables us to gauge
the degree of complac‘ency or dyspepsia the diet is inducing. Gordon Troup’s devilled kidneys and paté de foie gras smelt of the midnight oil upon which they were cooked. The successidn of rich dishes ushered in with a. too unctuous oratory were slightly nauseating, and the "ritual burps" of the gratified ‘guests shocked
my own "refained" taste. Helen Garrett showed that my reaction sprang from an ingrained puritanism which confounds all fleshly pleasures with the cardinal sin, but I would not wholly agree with her, for those who are "sicklied o’er" when confronted with the gargantuan repast of a Troup may find pleasure in salads of all kinds followed by beer, or may, in their own homes, design exciting meals known nowhere else. If Helea Garrett justly castigated public eating-places Margaret Scott rightly suggested that New Zealand meals should not be judged by these alone. The conclusions inherent in Rich-. ard Beauchamp’s interesting historical survey must be abjured by all right thinking citizens for the stress on eating here leads to a materialistic interpretation of history. As for the heavyhanded entrees served by that monarch of wit Ray Copland, alas, I am now a
Republican.
Westcliff
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 652, 4 January 1952, Page 12
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214Nothing to Eat But Food New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 652, 4 January 1952, Page 12
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