Show FAMOUS MEALS AT john chamberlain who kept the best restaurant american has ever known at washington induced sen ator mahone to try his hand at rals ing pigs for hams in albemarle county the senator bought 2 acres of land this he had subdivided into tracts of acres each in one he planted closer in the next nutmeg grass and in another goobers in the summer he would turn his swine in on the clover in september they fed on the roots ot the nutmeg grass and in october the bars were let down tor raids on his peanut patch all during the fattening period the pigs were given buttermilk to drink no water during december the hogs klied the sides and shoulders were sold to the richmond market john chamberlain taking allt the hams except those the senate kept tor private use chamberlain paid 75 cents a pound and a mahone ham steak was the chief article that constituted one of chamberlain s a I 1 ous breakfast in the capital for this meal one was served with some favorite fruit then came the ham fried with the gravy thick in the dish to be poured on hot boiled rice with these were given beaten biscuit and waffles and a pitcher of wild honey and by the time one had finished he was quite ready and will ing to shut his eyes and give his soul up to the master of all blessings when chamberlain died hancock s old place in pennsylvania avenue at tempted to serve similar breakfasts but the proprietor neither had the hams to cook nor a cook that knew how to treat such a delicacy and so the morning meal which mad chamberlain s place famous has got to be a common ordinary affair ot grape fruit and egg in the nation capital just as at has everywhere chamberlain s chief cook was a a former slave born and reared in south carolina and he ild her 10 a year too |