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PART 7 PAGE 6. CHICAGO SUNDAY TRIBUNE: DECEMBER 6, 1942. THE TRIBUNE TRAVELER'S GUIDE Hot Chocolate LYI Outlook for ki Fa ns Is Is Historical MY Mexican Drink Optimistic One raotl 4- ('' Skiers who have been wondering By Dorothy Johnson what Office of Defense Transporta Granted tat discussion of foods isn't ordinarily appropriate to travel pages, mention ot hot chocolate, Mex tion orders will do to their projected trips Into snow country can take a fairly rosy view, according to reports coming in from major winter sports ican style, Is more than a culinary topic. It's history, ancient and mod when I said I was going back to worlf centers. Altho some curtailment of I ern.

transportation facilities Is general for Equally rich In flavor and legend. civilians not engaged in the war ef hot chocolate, as concocted by the 20th fort, and altho special "ski trains' century descendants of early Aztec have been abolished by the ODT for cooks. Is one of the special delights of gourmets traveling in Mexico. the duration of the war, skiers still can reach the snowy slopes if, as In Vorts Americanos who know their other modes of travel, they make cuisine say that only in old Mexico Is a mixing technique used that can- reservations far enough In advance and accept the type of space available. Resorts report that reservations cot be duplicated for results.

The rhythm of the hot chocolate maker, skilfully whirring a carved wood rod made to date Indicate that visitors will come less often but will stay in a bowl of steaming, aromatic bev longer they arrive, getting all erage, is one of the many fascinating aspects of the culinary art south of their skiing into one longer vacation rather than a few short ones. The rubber conservation program, too, the border. Served ordinarily with sweet rolls for breakfast or supper, Mexican hot chocolate may well con will have less effect on winter sports I OHM 1 HIGH ON(A SNOWY SLOPE In winter resort centers all over the nation, both civilians and men and women in uniform art skiing their way to health. than at first was feared. In many stitute a meal in Itself, and often does In native homes.

instances, resorts are pooling their cars to get skiers from stations to The history of cacao reaches far back into Mexican civilization. Cen BUT I WAS NEVER A good early snowfall has groomed turies ago, Indian princes cultivated the cacao bean and developed the fine art of preparing it in beverage form. the ski centers, which are optimistic VOICE OF THE TRAVELER about a satisfactory season. Winter The conqueror Cortez had his first sports are recognized as health build cup of the brew at the court of Mon ing, and will carry on, on an almost as usual basis, with, the approval of HAPPIER IN MY LIFE THAN I AM AT THIS WAR JOB!" tezuma, last of the Aztec rulers. He was so impressed by the drink that he wrote about it to his king, explain government agencies.

There will be skiing almost any Letters regarding travel condi tions and experiences are welcomed. Please keep them brief. Address: Travel Editor, Chicago Tribune. CAPE COD SIGHTS. CAPE COD.

Mass. To the Travel Ed! ing that cacao Increased resistance to Balcer, 41 years old, Is recovering from an operation. She collects picture postcards. Miss Louise Kostum, Macon County sanitarium, Decatur, IIL Mrs. Hattle Chambers, care of E.

J. Hoffman. 801 Goethe street, Dubuque, la. Mrs. Chambers has been a shut-In for more than six years.

She has arthritis. fatigue, describing its flavor and fra where favored with suitable slopes and enough snow, but New England and Canada are in the limelight today, as in years past. New York's grance, and inclosing a sample of the product. tor Cape Cod is becoming a winter sight 4 Long before the discovery of Amer Bear Mountain park, the Catskllls, I seeing magnet for thousands of service men stationed at camps, schools, and arsenals of the cape peninsula. Buzzards Bay and Martha's Vineyard.

The boys and Lake Placid are completely outfitted, including snow. The Poconos of eastern Pennsylvania and many other resorts In the western, north ica by white men, cacao was cultivated in Mexico, and it is one of the many products which Indians of this continent have contributed to the world's food supply. In the time of like to visit the historic places and the New Mexico Calendar monuments of an era when the United States was making its first fight for free ern, and northeastern regions of the state, are seeing plenty of skate sharpening, ski waxing, and other the Aztecs it was prepared with herbs, spices, honey and grains of corn. -aw 1 Ifc I dozn. The cape, with Its old seaport towns, reminds one ot Norse sagas.

Usher Dec. 12 Santa Fe and other Span folk, and old lighthouses and windmills. Many rites and legends were associated with its cultivation. According which cradled much of where America i -f in i preparations for snow fun. Service men on furlough are expected to swell the ranks of civilian enthusiasts.

lsh-American villages, feast day of Our Lady of Guadalupe, with proces was born. to Artec lore, the great god Quetzal' coatl brought the seeds of the cacao to earth so that mortal men might Ot timely Interest Is Frovtncetown, on sion on Dec. 1L the tip ot the cape. Provlncetown harbor December during fortnight before The Berkshires of Massachusetts, long famous for good skiing; the taste the godlike food. Among the and after Christmas Spanish-Amer was the scene of the signing, in a cabin of the Mayflower, ot the first charter ot domestic government.

The Pilgrim Me Franconla Notch and Hanover sec ican villages, performances of traditional Christmas plays: Los Pastores, Mayans, during Mvtan, the 15th month of their year, those who were about to plant the sacred cacao held a great celebration in honor of their morial monument on Town Hill Is attract ing men In the services. tions of New Hampshire; Stowe, Rutland, Manchester, and Woodstock, VL, La Aparlcion de Guadalupe. Dec. 24 Taos Indian pueblo, fire as well as spots In the state of Maine, patron gods, Chac, god of agriculture; Pvt. Arthux L.

M. MAIL FOB SHUT INS. light procession and Matchlnes dances. Hobntt, god of food, and Ekchuah, and the grand facilities of the Lauren- Dec. 24 Several Indian pueblos, protector of the cacao trade.

During tians in Canada, are other localities Ervin Klein e. Boagianet. 18 years dances after midnight mass In pueblo the ceremonial rites, a dog having where the cry of "track! will echo old. will try to answer malL He ls Inter mission churches. thru the snow clad hills.

cacao colored spots was sacrificed. In early times there existed in Mex Dec. 24 Santa Fe, Christmas eve, ested In baseball, basketball, and football, also geography. Ervin has been crippled since birth. RESORTS AND TRAVEL.

little bonfires for El Santo Nino the Christ Child burned before homes Charles Brown, care of Roy Brown, ico a complete monetary system based FLORIDA. R. F. D. No.

1, Belolt. Is 5 years on cacao, which was accepted as cur and in streets. old and a "good soldier" suffering a fractured pelvis. Dec. 25-28 Indian pueblos, cere There's a jobto be done.

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RESORTS AND TRAVEL. is lis JWs, MICHIGAN. MICHIGAN. a a a a GAS RATIONING NO BARMEN Good news for our many friends. TO VICTORIOUS a 19th century, cacao beans served as currency in small markets thruout the republic of Mexico.

Preconquest Indians used cacao not only as money and beverage, but also as a cooking fat, medicine, and cosmetic. It was, to them, a "life-giving'' substance. In a large monolith of the Totonaca Indians, a tree of life, carved in stone, represent! the cacao tree, symbol of the cacao In early Indian life. Even today, in one of Mexico's more remote regions, the ancient custom still prevails whereby a bride presents her husband with a bench and five cacao beans, and the bridegroom gives her, in exchange, an equal amount of the beans and a skirt as a nuptial gift. The beautifully carved and ornamented chocolate beaters used thruout Mexico also are an Aztec heritage.

They are called molinillos and may be purchased In any Mexi and tor thoi. who an yer 10 crt diicovcr ie Midwert', finest and I I moit Spa for 'flj Ug IflJ 3 SPEEDY WAYS to vim and vigori Tic a you should! got the sew folder "Wartime Informofioa Yoa Wont About St. feltrs-burg." It answers oil ouesriont about present conditions in this city tells about accommodations for 60, 000 winter residents, etc SO. SHORE ELECTRIC GREYHOUND BUS W4? a'J l'-T PERE MARQUETTE R. R.

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