Show A SERIES OF SPECIAL ARTICLES BY HE LEAD LEADING I N 1 WAR CORRESPONDENTS I Roast Lizard I fly By Robert McCormick Wilts Th e-Th Tb ough special arrange arrange- arrangement ment with Coll Coli e s Wed Weekly Every American plane In the Pa Pacific carries a combination cookbook and gu but It s a strange example of either The main Idea behind the volume for the present is to save the I yes ves of filers forced down in the we rd reaches of the South Seas But after the war it will be priceless to those of us who actually have the courage to tale taye up as a profess on The book tells us how to roast a goanna to a turn A goanna IS a ab ab b g lizard and the to ta I 1 makes a ray dish If properly cooked The book also tells us that a stuffed bandicoot Is elegant eat ng that its flesh IS scarcely distinguishable from rabbIt The fact that the bandicoot IS nothing but a large rat v nth Ith b g ears has nothing to do With its taste I And the There s a dish that would thrill you clear down to 0 your toes Cooked up m in a casserole the Is something rIght out ot of this world It s right out of our oar world anyhow since It its s described as a large cream colored grub found in rotting wood The book was put together by Dr Frank Roberts of the Smithsonian tut on m in Washington Much of the information m in It was supplied by Dr William Strong director of the board which sounds very dull but the graphic board has the delightful Job of finding out all It can about the personal hab bab ts is and environment of other folks all over the world How to Find Honey The book does more than merely tell teU how to cook the strange flora and fauna a man IS likely to run into on a desolate Island in the Pac Pacific lc The main mam body of the book is dived ed into two columns First the name of the food then a description and an explanation of where to find it and how to cook It it An ordinary fig may be quite a strange business to a pilot from Brooklyn for example FIgs grow growing lug ing on trees don t look much like those in 10 packages Then there s honey Honey IS a blessed thing for a hungry wanderer to come corne across The trIck of finding it revolves around recognizing the insects that make It In the trOpiCS the honey bee IS a mIld little thing that looks like an ordinary ordinary nary fly The book tells the boys to tie a bit of white cloth on one of the bees or sprinkle It With flour then follow It through its zigzag course to its hive have There s plenty of food lying around in the Pacific both on land and in the water But you have to know how bow to find it and how to 0 avoid the items that are pOIsonous of whIch there are re fortunately very I I few The coconut palm is practically a grocery store all by itself The meat of its nut IS fine fule food ripe or green The liquor of the green fruit IS refreshing And when fermented it becomes a powerful wine The tip top bunch of leaves on the tree IS a true delicacy It is 15 known as palm cabbage and it s cooked just like cabbage and tastes like it Baked Breadfruit B is 15 almost as much of an ill all round dish as coconut It grows m in a large tree and the fruit hangs on the tree like green bal bah balloons loons With pock marked skin BreadfrUit is a substantial Item of food when roasted baked or tried fried After it s cooked it can be sliced and drIed and It U 11 keep indefinitely lint Bu It s not aU all vegetables and no meat The book has directions for tracking down and t fixing up such things as scrub turkey arkey WIld pigs barking pigeons parrots and whIte cockatoos cockatoo The Filipinos are nuts about locusts particularly when they are pickled In vinegar or tried fried In III salty fa tat Sea food offers a flue fine variety The book tells of a number of shellfish that can be picked up around the islands tn in the Pac Pacific lc Things like the cockle the cowry the limpet the conch and a lot of the other creatures whose principal lion lOD hu has been their shells are nIce eating So are prawns and fresh freshwater freshwater water mussels The Biting Cone The wanderer has to watch out for tor one shellfish however It s called the cone because it s shaped like a apin apine pin pine cone The cone Is not only poison to eat eat but has sharp teeth that shoot venom Into you like a ser serpent serpent pent a fangs Furthermore it seems to get posItive pleasure out of using its teeth The book tells how to cook the shellfish if no kitchen utensils are handy SimPly build a tire fire on Of toP of them They stew tn in their own juices and come out quite palatable Or Dr they can be eaten raw |