| Show Backseat t Dri Driving ving By Frank K Baker Telegram Sports Editor Six Forty-Six Kitchens Cater To Olympic Appetites Long practice at the old training tables notwithstanding a husky American football player has a weakness weak ness for lor eating anything and lots of it Not so so however with the track andfield andfield and andfield field artists from the many nations al already already already al- al ready Inhabiting the Olympic village at Lo Los Angeles Some of the stars arc are as touchy about what they eat and how it is js prepared as the most temperamental prIma donna ever was about another member of the cast ast whistling in the dressing room In order that the whims of these athletes may be properly properly prop prop- erly attended the Olympic committee has equipped 46 kitchens behind the 1600 feet of or space included in the five separate dining halls so that almost any dish known to any part of the globe can be p prepared Each kitchen has a chef representing represent represent- ing one of the major nations participating in the games All food is or ordered ordered ordered or- or dered through the village commissary at a rate of 2 2 a day for the board and room of each man The attaches of each nation are delegated legated to see that their athletes receive the food they want and need for training Like American Ham and nd Eggs Some of the visiting athletes therefore therefore there there- fore tore see no reason to depart from their customary dining habits Many of them lunch native style T. T Take Take- mum mura one of or Japans Japan's swimmers in the OI Olympics was rec photographed recently at a n dining table eating rice with chopsticks The Japanese have their or raw fish Ish rated as a great delicacy But a most unusual situation has de- de according to one of the kitchen kitch kitch- en chefs cheis with the Nippon athletes practically to a man nan developing amania amania a amania mania for American style ham and eggs Many of the Japanese demand them almost every morning for breakfast breakfast break break- fast according to certain press dis dis- patches The are known to the commissary as meat caters In addition addi addi- additon tion ton they have their mate which is brewed from the he leaves of the mate tree The leaves leave are placed in an almost al most round dri dried d gourd Hot vater water Js is added and the tea or mate is sipped through a hollow handled sil- sil spoon One One- of the chief objections to American food Is that It Is too greasy The Germans are re the chief protestors on that premise The ask that their meat mostly beef beet and mutton be roasted In huge chunks and md sliced They have ve no patience with the American c custom of fixing everything even to chicken chick chick- en en In grease Their chef sees that they get their meat In big chunks and plenty of potatoes strained until tinUI un un- til UI they are dry and mealy Swiss Forego Cheese heese Italians Stick to Spaghetti Oddly enough the Swiss athletes flatly rc refuse use to cat their nations nation's widely widely widely wide wide- ly advertised Swiss cheese Dr Paul Milton who will wUI r run n the meter race for Switzerland dispelled the idea that he and his mates had to have their Swiss cheese He likes American cooking e espe pe daIly soft-boiled soft eggs for br breakfast Your coffee is excellent he said In flIn fact I think I shall shan eat normal American food until shortly before the hard training starts Then of course I shall not eat s so much The Swiss can forsake his native product if he desires but not so with the Italian runners and jumpers They run true to form and thrive on their native spaghetti Vegetables and fruits are constant favorites of the Italians and Japa Japa- nese Meanwhile the Americans continue continue con con- to cat eat almost anything some of the Saxons Anglo particularly the college football players in the village finding it quite a lark to experiment a. a bit by trying out the special delicacies of the various countries The village offers an ideal situation for such experiments ex ex- experiments ex- ex for the food is prepared by bythe bythe bythe the experts with all the accuracy and adeptness of the native surroundings minus minus' the long trips to the distant provinces The chief problem seems to be In finding an interpreter through whom the order may oe cc placed It would b b. b disappointing you know to ask for and get ham and eggs |
