European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 1, 1962, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Vassett is also a sleight of hand artist. Y supreme pineapple baked with american cheese garnished with Cherry. Ti�1iwtohsf�toio i filled with Cream and then plugged before baking. The stars and stores by Ray Wright staff writers a photos by Ted Rohde Merican women Don t take advantage of the Large variety of foods " available to  says it col Francisj. Vassett. Of Centra Falls . And just because he s Northern area come quartermaster does t mean he guilty of Pund iting from his pulpit Vas sett has been a Cook of considerable not since world War ii. I they usually stick pretty close to the Steak hamburger and Chicken routine a asserts. This limited attitude is because we Al fear the unknown. This is particularly True of a woman and a new recipe. She usually has a Cook Book but rarely gets it out to take a Chance on a space trip into a new food  but if a Cook feels impelled to stay with the hamburger Motif this office suggests a variation he Calls Hamburg a la Vassett add to your hamburger onions garlic Al sauce fresh chopped peppers and Sherry. Then top the hamburger with a Fried egg and Garnish with Parsley and stuffed olives. Vassett got interested in cooking in 1942 when As a second lieutenant fresh out of officer candidate school he was put in charge of feeding chinese refugees fleeing Over the Burma Road to Kunming China. He got interested in not Only providing food but in making it Good he recalls. He dreamed up some variations on How to Cook Rice in the process. At War s end he went to the army subsistence school and has been in the quartermaster corps and cooking at Home Ever since. As Naco s quartermaster he is responsible for a $30q-Miuion-a-year opera lion that involves commissaries food serv ice units and a whole Host of items associated with food not to mention some laundry and repair  s been food officer at the Quarter master school and was food adviser for 1st army since then. He s convinced that food must he served As attractively As possible. He holds that garnishing is one of the tremendous trifles in cookery. If it looks appetizing it will taste even better. If the Little lady asks to be taken out to dinner it s not just a whim on her part he maintains we All need a change of environment so far As Ealing is con  favorite menu is vegetable soup pork chops cooked in Tomato sauce Adda Quarter ounce of Sherry just before serving misty supreme pineapple slice covered with thin slice of american cheese bake it in buttered pan at 350 degrees until Golden Brown remove to hot plate and Garnish with Cherry and Coffee. Bassetts off duty projects Aren t limited to puttering around in his Kitchen. He s now working on his fourth University degree. He holds a degree in government from Monmouth College n.j., a bus. Id facial sciences from the Richmond professional Institute in Virginia and a mat Ter s in psychology and counselling from William and Mary College in Virginia. His languages include chinese German and urdu a form of Hindustani spoken in part of India. And when he first joined the army in1910 his record showed Only one year of High school. This officer believes that the social Sta Tus of army officers is higher now than Ever before. The thinking of oar civilians toward their army officer corps is that Here today we have a group of men who Farewell educated progressive versatile. Imaginative and devoted to America he  this Man is no bookworm. He plays the Harmonica he once had his own har Monica band and teaches the Cha Cha Cha and twist to his friends. He once won the Rhode Island state swing dance championship with his sister Way Back when and also won the Cape cod championship. He had won nine dance contests be or he gave up competing. A More recent Hobby is sleight of hand tricks. Page i