Show V 0 4T temp vfl r So Good! - : r “ MttFUTCHEI prepares a special Spanish roast Eating Spanish by Clementine Paddleford Tlii Week Food Editor Thin Florida town has a Latin flavor — and so has the food Try the boliche Tampa Fla Spanish foods accent the menu Pungent Fla It was in the lusty days before the turn of the century that a cigar tycoon V M Ybor transferred his business from Havana to this little port town Other cigar makers soon followed bringing workers by the thousands A thriving community grew up overnight colorful as a bit of old Spain A decade or two and the Latin atmosphere waned but the Spanish influence had left its mark at the table This was my first visit to Tampa and I wanted to eat Spanish and home-styl- e not m the restaurants called my friend Food Editor of “The I Barbara Clendinen Tampa Tribune" to ask advice She said Mrs Eliot Fletcher entertains beautifully and knows Spanish foods Mrs Fletcher she told me was Bertha Corral daughter of the late Manuel one of Tampa's leading cigar manufacturers the fenily prominent in the city Husband Eliot Fletcher is also a some- —rated as one of Florida's architects It was with Barbara's help that a dinner party was planned at the Fletcher home in Beach Park the room to center around the famed local dish the Spanish Wick The guests at the party included Barbara and her husband James Clendinen Assistant Editor of “The Tampa Tribune" Kay Titus a business friend of mine from New York City the Fletchers and this reporter Before dinner we had a look around the grounds The home is an Eliot Fletcher design done in the French Provincial style et well back in a wooded area which gives body top-not- it a country-estat- e atmosphere A flagstone terrace in the rear runs between garage and house A porch-lik- e roof jutting from one end of the garage provides a place for sink cupboard worktable — convenient when meals are in the making on the portable barbecue grill A huge oak shades the terrace festive with hanging moss Here we met “Feathers" a black cocker spaniel with his mistress Miss Vicky the Fletchers’ daughter Vicky is the horsewoman of the family We wager one day she will ride for a ribbon at the horse show in Madison Square Garden for the lively flavor and nourishing goodness of 8 garden -- fresh Flutiia Chips The copper-brigcopper-bottome- Fletchers’ kitchen is it's with a long row of shiny sun-brig- ht d utensils Here Mrs Fletcher spends hours experimenting with new recipes for she dearly loves cooking an art she learned from her mother Her deep-fa- t fryer is her favorite piece of equipment This she used to make the plantain chips passed crisp and salty with the cocktails Dinner was served family-styl- e Mr Fletcher carving the boliche a fixed-u- p eye of the round Cook Dora Had advised Mrs Fletcher "You'd better slice it yourself He’ll make it into hamburger” But he didn't He carved standing at the buffet his petite wife in blue satin stood by to dish the potatoes the beans and the gravy She ' Krved the filled plates These were potatoes boiled in their jackets peeled' cut in half then browned in the fat of the roasting pan The green beans were combined with sau-t£mushrooms to give them that certain little difference The party table was beautiful in the candle 1 vegetable juices The label tells you of from 8 of nature’s V-8- vitamin-packe- d healthful goodness— the juices vegetables— but flavor that tdls it's that wonderful is so preferred you why No single juice can match the lively flavor of this mitrMe blend of juices from luscious ted tomatoes and beets tender carrots V-- 8 paisley spinach tangy watercress celery and lettuce garden-cris- p Morning noon or night is good and gtod for you! V-- 8 ed glow A low silver bowl held African daisies giant candytuft and the dainty star jasmine Continued on page 37 Vsgofablo Mcm is Mkivi bland of 8 (wires in ono drink V- -t msMEtsw —— — -- - S) ryiManiHorvsM) i 33 |