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Show Uncle Sam Always Seeking New Foods WHAT would you think of a vegetable that may be used for soup, stuffed, stewed, fried, made Into fritters, baked or lyonnaised, and that Is a delectable salad when served with either French or mayonnaise dressing? Moreover, It Is a vegetable that, although al-though shipped as early as October, Its keeping qualities make It seasonable season-able as late as March. Such Is the chayote, known In New Orleans among the Creoles as mlrll-ton. mlrll-ton. It has been brought Into this country from Mexico and the West Indies, and already Is fairly familiar to people throughout the South, and Is finding Its way to northern and western west-ern markets. It Is but one of the numerous new foods that the government Is constantly constant-ly introducing to the people of the United States. Among his many and varied activities, Uncle Sam sends out agricultural explorers Into the far and near corners of the earth to search for fruits and vegetables that he may Introduce to his home folks. Anything that the people of other countries find palatable and valuable Is seized upon with the Idea that It may be shipped Into the United States, or possibly grown here to the end that we may have a variety as well as an abundance of food, that the cost of living may be reduced, and that broad acres of our soil now unproductive unproduc-tive may be tilled with profit. The bur artichoke has long beeii Imported Im-ported from southern Europe, and Is no novelty to those who are able to have what they want when they want it, but it Is now rapidly becoming available to those of modest expenditures expendi-tures as It Is grown In California and in the South. It Is good creamed, stuffed, made into soup, as a salad, used as an omelet filling or combined with scrambled eggs. From the tropics, where It is the principal food staple of millions of people, there has been brought to us a rival of the white potato the dasheen. In appearance It resembles both the potato and the sugar beet, and Its food value is obvious when It is known that it contains half as much protein and starch as the white potato. po-tato. ' |