Word: dessertation
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...superstition which prevents many people from eating crab and ice cream or milk at the same meal. This is entirely a superstition, not based on one iota of fact; yet, we dined at a famed Philadelphia club as late as last year and had to forego ice cream for dessert because we had eaten crab meat for luncheon! Many of Maryland's finest recipes for cooking the crab call for milk, and we, after the Philadelphia incident, have made a point of conspicuousness outside of the "Free State," and always couple crab meat and ice cream for our luncheons...
Early next month Dill, who has been with the Fatigue Laboratory ever since its organization in 1927, will start feeding his guinea pigs an ounce of gelatin a day. Not in dessert form, this gelatin is dry and must be washed down with cold water...
...amount of gelatin in the ordinary dessert, he pointed out, is probably less than one tenth of an ounce. No one knows the exact chemical formula of gelatin; it is a complex protein containing carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen...
Salad and dessert were still to come. With Kirsten Flagstad, Marjorie Lawrence, Kerstin Thorborg, Eyvind Laholm and a galaxy of other top-flight singers, Conductor Goossens and his Cincinnati Symphony dished out the whole of Saint-Saens' opera, Samson et Dalila, and Act II of Wagner's Parsifal, threw in Stravinsky's Symphony of Psalms and a brace of 18th-Century oratorios, and filled in the chinks with miscellaneous nuts and raisins of symphonic, operatic and choral music...
...them was the great Copper, who retired in 1927 after cooking Paderewski's meals for 25 years. After a midnight meal in his private car on some Midwestern siding, Paderewski once called the waiter to him. "Tell Mr. Copper," he beamed, "that the meat, the vegetables and the dessert were excellent." The waiter went out, then reappeared. "Mr. Copper said to tell you," he reported, "that the soup was excellent...