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Show GENEROSITY OF THE GOURMET Frenchman Partial to Properly Cooked Chop, But He Did Not Altogether Alto-gether Forget His Wife. A Frenchman hesitates to pay two dollars for a pair of ready-made trousers, but it is his delight to spend a fiver on a meal. The speaker, a waiter, smiled. "My brother, Gustav of Dax," he said, "is a renowned gourmet. They talk all over Dax of Gustav's way of grilling a lamb cutlet. Is It a good way, but expensive? Oh, la, la!" "La, la?" The guest frowned. "What do you mean by 'la, la?' " he inquired. "It just means 'gosh,' 'jingo,' 'my goodness,' anything like that," said the waiter, impatiently. "About my brother Gustav. He always grills his own chops. He won't trust the work to any one else. He does it like this: He lays three chops, one on top of the other, on the grill. Seated before the Are, he turns the chops over and over till the two outer ones are done to a very dry brown. The middle one only is the one he eats. Ah, but it must be delicious. It has received, you see, all the rich, delicate juices of the other oth-er two." The guest sneered. "And does he throw the other two away?" he asked. "Oh, no," the waiter answered. "He gives them to his wife." Buffalo Express. |