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Show Chinese Are NaUtral Cooks. The Chinese are a cation of cooks. There is scarcely an individual in their vast community who is not more or less competent to cook himself a rpsnppfnhlp ninnpr Tlio nononnt cita yviM.j. down to meals cooked by the hand of his wife or daughter-in-law. In large establishments the cooks are invariably invari-ably men. Half a dozen coolies will squat round a bucket of steaming rice and from four to six small savory dishes of stewed cabbage, onions, scraps of fat, pork, cheap fish, eto. They fill their bowls -'at discretion'6 from the bucket. They help themselves them-selves discreetly with their chopsticks chop-sticks frcm the various dishes devoted. On ordinary occasions even the wealthy Chinamen will sit down to some such simple fare, served indeed on a tablfl instead of on the ground, but in almost al-most equally simple style. New York Ledger. |