Word: dished
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...luncheon time approached I avoided the too celebrated local gulyas (goulash) but found delicious another Magyar dish, chicken spiced with various condiments. The afternoon was spent in exploring the old and modern castles of Buda and the shops, boulevards, subway, and parks of Pest. These two cities (Buda and Pest) lie on either side of the Danube and form together the Capital (Budapest). Since it was already late, the Royal Opera was indicated and fulfilled its reputation as among the finest in Europe." Vienna, Austria. "Four hours by rail sufficed to reach Vienna between breakfast time and luncheon. Grown used...
...chicken salad', I am certain that no actress of the company will ever offend etiquette by ordering it a second time. Almost without exception, every entertainment we were invited to during the summer, supplied chicken salad among the refreshments. One becomes somewhat of a connoisseur of this dish after consuming it for several months. A little too much seasoning in it after a certain time sufficed to make the whole company irascible...
Belgian news organs gave space to a ridiculous fable concerning her prowess as a cook last week. Prince Leopold's infatuation, they declared, dates from the hour when he consumed an endive salad-his favorite dish-prepared with especial deftness by Princess Astrid...
...sake of experiment, London physiologists T. S. P. Strangeways and H. B. Fell cracked open several hatching eggs (64 to 72 hours incubation*) and scooped out the eyes of the unborn chicks. These eyes they placed in a glass dish which contained blood plasma and extract of embryonic fowl tissue, a viscid fluid. The tiny eyes dreamily bobbed about in this sticky medium, grew in "a surprisingly normal way," gave the horrible semblance of blinking at the experimenters who watched them last week...
Finally I am indebted to Romilly's Western Pacific and New Zealand for a receipt for preparing human brains. The natives of New Zealand were accustomed to stew the brains in "Sak-Sak," a concoction of sago and cocoa. The dish was "pronounced delicious by white men who had partaken...