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Show ADDS H FOODS War Responsible for Queer Things on Menu. Potato Flour Bread and Artificial Protein Pro-tein Join Soup Cubes and Pudding Powder Frenchmen Aro Fond of Snails. Washington. War stringencies havo called forth a number of unusual foodn, among thorn a bread mado largoly of potato flour, artificial protein pro-tein cakes, greon bono moal preparations, prepara-tions, together with Innumerable foods manufactured In tho laboratory in tabloid form. So soup cubes, pud-ding pud-ding powders, moat essences and vogo-tablo vogo-tablo oxtracts always moro or less promlnont In tho kitchen of tho European Euro-pean housowlfo havo, according to reports from tho belligerent countries, rpcolved a tromondous stimulus through tho war. War may qrcato scarcity of tho arti-clos arti-clos on a community's accepted monu and yet, thero may bo plenty of food ftbout for thoBO who oat It. For ex-anipjo, ex-anipjo, tjjoro may bo tin abundanco of snails and grasshoppers on hand whllo a pooplo, thoughtless of theso dollcaclos, fltarvo for moat. Showing somowhat of tho rango of foodstuffs, whon wo consider tho world by and largo, a bulletin just givon out by tho National Geographic society at Washington Wash-ington enumerates a fow of tho froak foods in other countries. It roads: "Thero is no accounting for tho froaks of human appetites. Tho Rooso volt story of how ho got tho best work out of tho mon with sharp-filed teeth by promising thorn tho choicest bits of raw hippopotamus and rhl-nocoros rhl-nocoros steak for Bpecd in skinning will bo recalled by many who read tho articles in tho magazines at tho tlmo of his African expedition. "Can , Hobort H. Tartlott, commander command-er of tho Karluk, which carried Stof-ansson Stof-ansson to Arctic waters, says that, on his roturn from Herald Island to northorn Siberia, ho found raw polar boar meat tasting bettor than any ploco do resistance ho had ovor eaten In tho homo country. "Tho Frenchman likes his snails and wondors how nuyono who accopts oystors can rofuso them. "In Canton, China, rats sell for 60 conts a dozen, and a dog steak brings moro por pound than a leg of mutton. mut-ton. "Tho Chinese mandarin pays $30 a pound for birds' nests from which his Boup is concocted. "Iu partB of (ho West Indies tho palm worm Is stowed In fat. "Cortain African tribes aro as fond of catorplllars as an American is of rood birds on toast. "Tho Turks are as disgusted with oystors as wo aro witli tho llsh tho Corslcan Tollahos. "Eating earth, or goophagy, Is n common thing in many parts of tho world. In somo parts of Europo a butter is mado of Una clay, and In othor regions various kinds of earth arft sold in the open markot. Tho Porslans uso somo variety of soil in making their sweetmeats. "In Moxlco tho eggs of certain spo-cios spo-cios of files aro used by tho Indians In making food pasto, which is regarded re-garded as a great delicacy. "Somo of the Arctic tribes allow their ilHh to decompose, when it bo-comeB bo-comeB to them tho samo savory doll-cacy doll-cacy that llnjburgor or. harzer chooso 1b to us, whllo, in point of truo fragrance fra-grance tho palm remains to tho llsh. "Tho Arabs, and many other of tho near-eastern peoplos, preparo their bread In shoots almost as thin as tls-suo tls-suo papor and find theso crisp, tasto-less tasto-less things pleasing. v "In Control Amorlca, whoro creeping creep-ing things aro rogarded as clean and reasonable, tho lizard, tho Iguana, forms n choico nrtlclo of food. ! "Among tho tribes of eouthorn Russia Rus-sia .mores', milk, soured into an acrid, strong-taBting beverage, constitutes tho chlof artlclo of dlot, and tho Woat-cmor, Woat-cmor, who nt first finds It nauseating, comes to form a strong attachment for this drink. "In Syria, Mesopotamia and in Palestine Pal-estine and South Africa, tho locust often graces tho tablo In a roasted condition, and thoso who havo oaten it pronounco Its meat full of tho most accoptablo flavor." |