Show PECULIA FO 4 baking cassava cakes in haiti prepared ly by the society Washing toD D C wu service OUTU AFRICAN exporters exi ore are S bringing a new food to the worlds dining table which Is already replete with a generous cross section ot of the file living things found on the earth and in the sea grasshopper ragout the new article Is called for many years the chinese and arabs have relished lied grasshoppers which nere once destroyed as they attempted ruination of south african crops now great masses of the insects are captured carefully cleaned conserved and shipped to the orient and asia minor ready to be eaten strange foods are to ro be found on th markets of all continents in fact one part of the world Is rather ignorant of what satisfies the hunger or tickles the palate ot of the other part ue ile who would enjoy ills his food should not look over the kitchen wall the korean proverb warns but there Is much of interest to be found by looking oer the geographical wall of space apace and regarding the food habits of other people rats and dog steaks in china have regular market prices and thoroughly ripened eggs are delicacies our food Is often looked upon as queer and heathenish by these same people the regards oysters as af we rio do some african and west indian dishes dut but all human curua nn history attests that happiness for man the hungry tinner since eve ate apples much depends on dinner russian borsch Is probably one of the best known soups the large harge quantity of meat floating in a sea of cabbage and sour cream Is a meal in itself heavy and filling ailing chinese fish soups are known the world over fo for their delicate flavor as Is swedish bouillon made of all kinds of birds with elks meat as the piece de resistance si of the soup in a swedish home the christmas porridge Is an affair of great importance made in a gigantic copper washtub being stirred by several women who take turns stirring two at a time for no DO less than ten baurs on erld end in this same home cooks are pensioned to prevent family recipes from being given away some queer sea foods by dorrans Ao An and polynesians land lubbers and seafaring folk seafood Is held la in high regard in siberia owing to climatic conditions frozen sliced fish Is the delight kukson the local fish of the salmon family nearly takes lakes the place of bread brea frozen the skin removed sliced and eaten with salt it Is a savory treat put but the south sea islanders far from the freezing point hunt their treasured malolos by the light of the moon the tiny worms norms which come to the surface of the water once each year are eaten raw on location or taken home in palls in spain little white transparent eels eela two indies inches long called angulas are attracted and caught with the aid of oil lamps fried in batches in popping olive oil and served hot australians hunt dugong sea cow like a whale but owing to the thickness of the hide bide their spears are often turned aside or broken the flesh ol of this mammal maa has a flavor akin to both beet beef and pork the meat being used like bacon A good sized specimen may reach 12 feet in length and weigh COO pounds the river dwellers of brazil and other tropical south american countries have remarkably large fish in the tinga from which large steaks are taken fried alligator tall fall Is also to be had there as well as the lizard liLe iguana the flesh of the female iguana Is supposed to be as delicate as a young chicken although occasionally has proved it to be as tough as an old hen ben iguanas are sold alive tails tied together to prevent escape liberia likes dimboy dimboy the national dish of liberia Is prepared principally from a sweet nonpoisonous non DOD poisonous cassava root called cassada la in liberia the roots are peeled boiled and the fibers from the center removed before the process of pounding to in a mortar with a pestle Is begun this process calls for considerable sid erable skill and experience because tho the cassada sticks to any dry fhlug the pestle oust must be kept moist but not so go moist as to make the mass masa soggy dried and fried dimboy becomes so hard that it Is used as shot in rifles to the north of liberia in alfrica africa Is found another standard meal in itself dish couscous mutton or various vegetables cooked separately before mixing and bened steamed heat dumplings dump lings make a highly seasoned arab version of fin an irish stew without counting calories cal orles supplies a novel way of preparing tho the ubiquitous potato to make chuno potatoes are frozen trampled free of water again and again un til they are arc little balls of 0 pure starch the countries of the amazon basin however cling to manioc or mand locA root this root Is poisonous but the natives know how to pull its fangs by shredding washing and squeezing until the remainder can be ground into sawdust and eaten without harm for green vegetables the pacific islands present taro leaves a sort of 0 spinach which Is cultivated in swampy ground rould by the women of the islands the roots may also be eaten like potatoes or cooked like chills greens come from the sea Cuch ayuyu or cocha yuyu to the incas means garden truck of the sea and Is a 2 species of sea weed need pleases the rumanian the rumanian variety of a new england boiled dinner Is carmale sar male soured cabbage leaves a more delicate sauerkraut rolled around a meat ball Is served with coarse cornmeal corn ineal mush called ma mamaliga maNga a highly spiced sauce and often thick sour cream ila maliga Is also served with eggs and other combinations practically the same dish Is to be found in sweden mincemeat of elk wrapped in cabbage leaves As we like dumplings dump lings and fritters with our meals so in doughnuts stuffed with rice and eggs known as kl lil and in china crullers crul lers of coarse flour fried in vegetable oils fill that place on the menu bread in afghanistan af hallstan hanl stan Is more than mere bread it Is food napkin and tablecloth all in one it derives its shape and uses from the use of quick ruining buining fuel and a varying demand demana dema nl from flour to loaf Is a matter of only a few minutes an oven Is heated by use as a furnace for a short time with brushwood fire for hours on end the bakeshop may have only a scant supply on hand band yet a sudden demand la Is quickly met while the customers walt wait some hessian bread is baked in tho the shape of a balloon tire in cuba one may reach for a sweet and find it 0 in o the carquillo barquillo bar quillo possibly the grandfather of the ice cream cone in a panel white loaves made of egg white and sugar which may be saten separately but more often dunked bunked dun ked in milk and dissolved or in the mango a reddish gold fruit even lollipops lolli pops cone shaped and wrapped in paper on a stick are to be found everywhere afghanistan keeps step with our snowballs A plate Is first filled with snow over which a tiny ladle of Is a poured then a handful of sweet paste cut into strips like noodles Is added over which tiny ladles of cream are poured before the whole confection Is completed with a dash of rose water this Is au an afghan sundae suggesting the file taste of good ice cream Is the raw frozen marrow of reindeer bones popular in siberia china prefers solid cream for its desserts but in southern russia prepares a pie filled with mashed raisins delicacies in chile in chile the eifel de palma honey of the palm is extracted from the felled tree and served as a with melons large and yellow some weighing 17 pounds are grown in chile and in darfur darfer are one of the stairs staffs of life there the melons are broken open and scooped out inside the rind thrown into the sand when all the pulp has been extracted it Is squeezed to break up the fiber in one vessel it Is placed on top of another vessel and the liquid in the under one percolates through straws into the upper the rind Is then broken up and pounded in a vessel fashioned out of a tree trunk all possible moisture is withdrawn and the residue becomes food and drink for donkey goat and fowl liquid refreshment varies as mum in foreign lands as does the solid food tea of one kind and another Is tle drink tea of course in china strained watermelon juice tea in darfer darfur orange tea bre brewed breed ed troia frolo the wild ild orange tree in tahiti tea lea seasoned with cardamon ginger in at af and unappetizing butter tea of southern china this last strange tea Is boiled coarse chinese tea strained into a churn with a lump of tale stale butter and a handful of fyall this mixture Is churned into an emulsion As the tea Is drunk the buttar on top is blown back until the tea la Is nearly finished into this hot parched barley meal Is poured to be k kneaded 11 beaded by the fingers into lumps and eaten in some parts far from the barley growing valleys fresh milk Is poured into the unwashed churn the liquid im immediately curdling this Is churned and the butter extracted the rest of the ihu milk Is a boiled in a large iron pot to a talk poured oto onlo a thin sheet and al allotted loed to dry broken into swall pieces and stored it becomes hard and dry to ro eat it try dry Is ij out of lof the hi question but ut it Is buted t fain ninba lii soaked soil fl in butter tea iea I 1 i 1 lille and bell d |