Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1899-04-09 | Page 20 | Watterson as a Cook

Wattersonasa Cook ashlngton Post Years ao when I belonged to a coterie of gay young cavaliers in New York City said Colonel henry atter son at Chamberlins I delnei1 the dish now generally known as lobster a la Xewben I gave my Idea to Charlie Delmonico and he saw that It was carried to successful execution John lcCllIoch was oe of us and to John Is due the aPpearance of broiled live lobster In the Cast Be had caught elate that epIcurean WHY of Preparing It dur log his sla In stay California In after years I attaIned some fame as a manipulator of certain dishes terrapin Ilerhaps bc Ing my masterpiece Curiously cnnUJh aU the newspapr stories havl given me credit for beatig an artist In the prepnratlon of Jysler J slews but my experience with the bivalves I limited J alivays left I them I to John Chamberlin while he would not allow any otat hut myself tn attend to I the dlamondbacls I cant begin 10 tel you how much of I this Ingredient or the exact quantity of the other to put with the terrapin but 1 know how to blend them all In an In tlnethc sort of wa and Jve never yet found the titan who didnt admit that I my cooking was of the highest order