Show Corned Beef King I Claims Top Cooks Are Born Slaves j Patient Culinary Experts Excel in Food Preparation a NEW YORK Good cooks are born to slavery Take that from Dinty Moore the corned beef king You cant can't even make a decent piece of toast he says unless you stay next to the toaster from the time you plug It in until its it's finI fin flu I Moore Is one of the few first class New York restaurateurs completely at home in the kitchen Most of the famous hosts of Manhattans Manhattan's better- better known eating houses arrived at their ultimate station not through the kitchen but because they were sensational sensational sen sen- ball players prize fighters bartenders head waiters or bored with the real estate business Moore was a huckster Ills His competitors competitors competitors com com- have discovered he is marvelously marvelously mar- mar talented and acute about food and its handling At least three of them have done their best to Imitate imitate Imitate imi Imi- tate his methods buying where he buys Because Moore admits having made more than three million dollars dollars dollars dol dol- lars on food his theories are inter inter- esting Dont Don't Use a Telephone You cant can't pick out food on the telephone he advises w women o 0 m men e n friends clip you every time Youve You've got to know food in your fingers and in your eye The woman of the house makes her mistake he says by pinching pennies at the market His Ills guiding principle is Buy the best Its It's the greatest economy Moore is the chef in his restaurant Cooks carry out his instructions He lie says what applies in his kitchen can apply anywhere If anything smokes he admonishes admonishes admon adman you are cooking too fast The stove is then like a runaway horse Turn it down halfway Chicken liver liver liver liv liv- i er or fish fish for instance cant can't be hurried His favorite theories are The Themore Themore Themore more you turn steaks and chops the better All An vegetables need sugar sugar su suo su- su gar and a little bacon never hurts them Raked Baked Potatoes Moore is exacting about baked po po- got to be boiled first he contends with five pounds of salt to every dozen pota pota- toes That sweetens them Then dry them in the oven on a low fire The ideal note on which to end a Dinty Moore dinner is apple pie lie He charges 75 15 cents a wedge but gives the recipe free Half cook the apples he advises advises advises ad ad- vises in steam sweetened with sugar Add a grated lemon rind the juice of three lemons for Cor a small family pie and sugar to sweeten when the pie is in the tin The most important feature Isto is isto isto to make a honey by boiling the apple apple apple ap ap- skins in sugar and water Pour that over the pie before adding the crust But Moore says Youve got to like to cook |