Word: terrapins
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Last spring Soupmaker Albanus Phillips (Phillips Packing Co.) wagered a diamond-back terrapin dinner that Walter P. Chrysler could not raise ten tons of tomatoes an acre on his Dorchester County, Md., estate. Gentleman-farmer Chrysler dispatched a fleet of trucks to Florida, imported the finest half-grown plants, had them tended daily. Last week the tomatoes were harvested, weighed. The costly Chrysler tomato patch had produced the shameful yield of 7.95 tons an acre...
...have given pause to even the tall, amiable president of the Waldorf and his man Oscar. Neatly they spiked their problem with a startling innovation ? a U. S. menu U. S. cooked. Mr. Boomer led off with Cape Cods baked in the shell, New Orleans gumbo and Maryland terrapin. His bird was Chesapeake mallard. Frozen applejack preceded Virginia ham and autumn salad which were topped off with soufflé Lugol and coffee...
...Brice because she left his Follies a month before she was to have a baby. He owned six custard-colored Rolls-Royces, hunted in Canada with five Indian guides, traveled in a private railroad car, kept a private barber and a succession of private chefs. His favorite food was terrapin. Pressagents complained because he telephoned them at 7 a. m. When a big news story broke the day he sailed for Europe, his name failed to appear on the first page. He wired his pressagent: "Sorry you sneaked me out of New York...
Samuel T. Shaw, deaf, white-haired, was once an art student but he went into the hotel business to make more money. With Simeon Ford, chief rival of Chauncey Depew as an after dinner speaker in the terrapin stew era, he owned the lamented Grand Union Hotel on 42nd Street. The Grand Union vied with Delmonico's and the Café Lafayette for the best food in the city. Its Hasenpfeffer and roast oysters were famed. It boasted a vast T-shaped bar at which beer was dispensed from the transepts, mixed drinks along the nave. Like every other...
...they could eat, all the liquor they could drink, beds, valets, and music. And inasmuch as at no time were all the guests incapacitated or otherwise absent, Penrose never left the ball room, the center of the merry-making." Typical Penrose meal: "A dozen raw oysters, chicken gumbo, a terrapin stew, two canvasback ducks, mashed potatoes, lima beans, macaroni, asparagus, cole slaw and stewed corn, one hot mince pie and a quart of coffee. All of which he stowed away while he drank a bottle of sauterne, a quart of champagne, and several cognacs...