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University Daily Kansas Friday. April 8. 1960
Foreign Foods for Feast
By Lynn Cheatum
FOUR-PAGE LIST—Sheila Lemon, Birmingham, England, graduate student, consults a $350 grocery list. She is in charge of buying food for the banquet dishes. A total of 26 nations will be represented on the banquet menu. Fifty-two foreign student cooks will prepare the food. Some of the students had to have ingredients, especially spices, sent from their home countries.
KU foreign students have imported recipes from their own countries for cooking their native dishes for the International Club Banquet Sunday.
Individuals and groups from 26 nations will cook their foods at home and bring them to the Kansas Union, where the banquet will be at 6 p.m.
SOME OF THE dishes will bewiener schnitzels from Austria, Genoise a la confeture from France, tabule from Lebanon, rendan a jam from Indonesia and trifle from Great Britain. Tickets are on sale at the Kansas Union for $2.
The Dominican Republic delegation is roasting a pig . . . feet, head, tail and all.
Many of the men cooks are anxious to show their superiority in the kitchen over their women friends. Some have even held private parties to try out the recipes on their friends.
"No meals are served on Sunday nights in most houses," pointed out Sheila Lemon, Birmingham, England, graduate student who is chairman of the banquet committee. "so this was an opportunity for a free meal with variety."
MISS LEMON SAID many of the measurements in the foreign recipes have to be translated from the metric system into the English system. All the recipes are imported, and several delegations have sent back to their home countries for ingredients they can't buy here - - such as seaweed from Japan.
"We usually lose money on the banquet," said Miss Lemon, "but it is a very popular event looked forward to every year by students, faculty members and people of Lawrence. We expect around 300 people to attend. The food will be quite different, and the foreign students involved will wear their native costumes."
HOME COOKING—Four Pakistan students try out their recipe for curried fish. They are Rab N. Malik, Karachi junior, left; Farooog A. Siddigui, Karachi graduate student; Hamiduddin Ahmad, Peshawar graduate student; and Raja Mohammed Naib, Village Jagla, Jhelum.
REMINDS ME OF HOME—Anna Handeland, Birkeland, Norway, graduate student, tries on her Norwegian school cap. The foreign students will wear their native costumes to the banquet.
MR. MONEY BAGS—Ernesto Vergara, Vigan, Philippines, graduate student and president of the International Club, counts ticket money. Tickets are on sale in the Kansas Union.
SING, BOY, SING—Augustine Kyei, Ashanti, Ghana, West Africa, junior, sings an African folk song and plays his mandolin. He is one of the foreign students who will entertain at the banquet.