Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-05-07 | Page 1 | American Food Bad, Duchess Says in Book

French Noblewoman Arraigns U. S. for Performance at Dinner Table PARIS, yfciy 7. American food, as served in restaurants in that country, coun-try, did not favorably impress tho Duchess of Clermont-Tonnorre, who visited the United States last autumn and has written a book on her trip. Tho only American foods that appear to havo made an appeal to tho duchess wero red bananas, California apples and orange3 and "hams of Virginia." "One must admit," she says in her book, "that food in America Is not good- To a Frenchman, the word 'meal' cannot bo applied to the bolting bolt-ing down of a club sandwich in five or six bites. The necessity of eating seems to have become' for Americans a sort of monotonous and obligatory annoyance and they aro bending all endcavorsv. toward simplifying the performance." per-formance." The duchess says she Is "unablo to comprehend why an American should require less tlmo for his whole luncheon lunch-eon than one of her countrymen needs to merely scan tho wino list." no