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RADIO MIRROR's kitchen<br />
hostess, Mrs. Simpson,<br />
personally interviews the<br />
radio stars to find out<br />
what their pet dishes are.<br />
If you want to know the<br />
favorite dish of your favorite<br />
star, write to Mrs.<br />
Margaret Simpson, in<br />
care of RADIO MIRROR,<br />
1926 Broadway, New<br />
York, enclosing a self -<br />
addressed stamped envelope.<br />
Watch this departmentfor<br />
your answers.<br />
n<br />
ISHES for summer entertaining ?"<br />
Cobina Wright, whose social background has<br />
made her as accomplished a hostess in private life<br />
as she is to her radio audience, smiled as she repeated the<br />
question. You have heard her on the Columbia networks,<br />
"Your Hostess" program, on Monday afternoons at 3:00<br />
P. M. EDT.<br />
"The answer is fairly obvious. isn't it? Something that<br />
piques the appetite. something out of the ordinary, and<br />
something cool.<br />
"One of the first dishes that occurs to me, and it's one<br />
that I have served successfully any number of times, was<br />
taught me by the composer, Puccini, while I was visiting<br />
in Italy. .<br />
"For it you need ham, a ham that is more thoroughly<br />
smoked than the kind you usually buy. I don't know if<br />
there is an American name for this specific kind of ham,<br />
but the Virginia hams cured with hickory smoke have the<br />
flavor I mean.<br />
"You slice this -or really, I should say, shave it. It must<br />
be cut very, very thin. And you serve it with melon. That<br />
yellow Persian melon, or for that matter, any kind of<br />
melon, very cold.<br />
"And if melons aren't available, or for some reason you<br />
or your guests don't like them, these slim shavings of raw<br />
ham are delicious with crushed fresh grapes."<br />
Italy made Mrs. Wright think of another dish -one that<br />
she says is good in summer or winter. It is called gnocchi<br />
and it is nothing more nor less than dumplings made with<br />
potatoes beaten to a fluffy lightness and combined with<br />
flour. They are more feathery and delicate than dumplings<br />
made with a straight flour pastry.<br />
"They are shaped to look something like slightly oversized<br />
shrimps," Mrs. Wright explained. "And they are<br />
served with a white sauce. The basic recipe for this may be<br />
varied to suit your taste -seasoned with cheese for example,<br />
it is delicious."<br />
Mrs. Wright's eyes were twinkling as she paused. "While<br />
I'm talking about Italy -I can't help thinking of something<br />
funny that happened there. I was married then to Owen<br />
Johnson, the writer and son of the American ambassador.<br />
A LA<br />
COB /NA<br />
WRIGHT<br />
By<br />
MRS.<br />
MARGARET<br />
SIMPSON<br />
Cobina Wright, who is always<br />
entertaining, gives<br />
you some grand recipes for<br />
cooling summer dishes. She's<br />
on Columbia's "Your Hostess"<br />
program. Turn fo<br />
page 50 -3 o'clock column.<br />
"We were in the country, and I had asked a number of<br />
guests to dinner. And then my staff walked out on me.<br />
There was no one to get dinner so we decided to do it ourselves,<br />
each one cooking his favorite dish.<br />
"When 1 was asked what 1 would contribute, I said that<br />
I knew how to make something delicious. It consisted of<br />
tomatoes, pepper and onions.<br />
" 'How do you cook them ?' asked a doubting Thomas of<br />
a guest who didn't believe that I knew anything about the<br />
behind- the -scenes part of entertaining.<br />
"'You slice the tomatoes,' I answered, 'and the peppers<br />
and onions. All rather fine. And then you put them in a<br />
dish and put some water on them.'<br />
"'Well, what next ?' the same guest pursued. `You put<br />
them on the stove and let them do what they do.' I answered<br />
firmly.<br />
"Later I found out that I'd stewed them, but they tasted<br />
just as good when I didn't know the proper culinary term."<br />
SUMMER entertaining isn't complete without something<br />
special in the way of a drink. And Cobina Wright had<br />
a suggestion to make about that which is simple enough.<br />
You shave ice very thin and fill a tall, highball glass with<br />
it. And then you pour tea. or coffee, or orangeade, or anything<br />
you like over it. You sip it slowly -it's almost<br />
like eating a sherbet, Mrs. Wright said -and when you<br />
have finished you are at least twenty degrees cooler.<br />
"That's almost enough food for a whole summer, isn't it ?"<br />
Mrs. Wright laughed her infectious laugh. "But perhaps<br />
I'd better mention salads. They're so cooling!<br />
"One of my favorites is very simple. It consists of a<br />
large bowl of water cress, washed and crisped in the refrigerator.<br />
Over this you slice cucumbers, very thin, and<br />
serve with French dressing that has had a slight acquaintance<br />
with a clove of garlic."<br />
There are innumerable ways of making refreshing salads<br />
and cooling drinks for the hot summer days. I have several<br />
recipes that will delight your family on a particularly sweltering<br />
day. Just send a self- addressed, stamped envelope<br />
with your request to Mrs. Margaret Simpson, RADIO MIR-<br />
ROR, 1926 Broadway. New York.<br />
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