Show Jolt Appetite With New Idea Theres There's nothing like a shock to wake up the appetite Begin the dinner with a salad yes salad yes they do in California and that you know is isa isa isa a state where good food ranks with good climate In a large bowl place crisp lettuce leaves some chopped green pepper celery tops a whisper of onion anything else that's green and succulent succulent pour pour on your French dressing take two sharp knives cross criss until the salad is chopped serve serve on cold plates and presto presto that's that's a refreshing appe appe- tizer Artichokes celery hearts cooked asap all argus all all those things made excellent first courses Try this rearrangement and you will understand the value of shock Creamed Greens Did you ever serve lettuce or watercress watercress watercress wa wa- i creamed as a vegetable to i embellish tHe Hie meat course Lettuce makes a mild and decidedly unusual dish dish boiled boiled lightly in salted water drained chopped coarsely and enriched enriched enriched en en- riched by a light and conservatively used cream sauce And watercress cooked the same way conceals in its rich white mantle a nature piquant and spicy enough to I brighten any menu Carrot sticks are growing in pop pop- They make a brilliant first course arranged in well controlled i nonchalance on an hors dish Scrape firm young carrots I then slice lengthwise into long narrow narrow narrow nar nar- row strips Stand in salted ice water wa wa- wa- wa ter until they are firm Then wrap in a wet napkin and in that napkin wrap also a a clove or two of garlic Chill Chili Before serving remove garlic only only the memory will linger on on- on and arrange the carrots in inviting stacks Pears for the salad course course that's that's a shocking thought Try it Perfect Perfect Per Per- feet fruit fruit fruit-Bosc Bosc Anjou Comice Cornice these are now in inthe the markets with markets with witha a small sharp fruit knife on the salad plate served between meat j course and dessert Or Orif if you want your pears to wait until dessert time then send them to table accompanied accompanied accompanied ac ac- ac- ac companied by some smooth fairly soft type of cheese Crackers yes and there you are familiar are familiar foods in novel positions I and the appetite with a new idea idea in in its head |