Word: dishing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...America makes encyclopedic but entertaining reading. Like an encyclopedia or a deep-dish pie it may be dipped into for juicy bits or devoured from start to finish. Some of the juicy bits...
...privately, of course." Despite the fact that services of armorial Lowestoft of that size are as rare as fragments of the True Cross, Dealer Cloran believed. He in turn interested Clinton I. Nash, Boston dealer, who bought the service for the price of $51,226 or about $232 the dish. Just to be sure, Mr. Nash forwarded some of his plates to Edward Crowninshield, bachelor brother of Bachelor Editor Frank Crowninshield of Vanity Fair. Edward Augustus Crowninshield, 60, was a famed amateur tennis player of the '90s, second president of the West Side (Forest Hills) Tennis Club. Among...
...shivering with a blue-nosed retinue. The Emperor was lost in the mountains. No food had been in the royal stomach for some time. So honored was the mountaineer by the visit, so solicitous was he for his Emperor's health that he set out an unusually large dish of his best seaweed jelly. When the meal was over the humble man, in deference to deity, threw away what the Son of Heaven could not eat. When the Emperor departed next morning, the mountaineer, thrifty, went after his lost delicacy. It had been frostbitten during the night...
...restaurant has been completely modernized in every respect. A complete new kitchen, up-to-date in every aspect has been installed while the other improvements include a new central heating, and ice plant, the latest system of refuse disposal by the refrigeration method, a well-equipped dish-washing system, and up-to-date refrigeration. The services of a capable chef have also been secured...
...annual London visit King Alfonso XIII of Spain ate his meal in his favorite Spanish restaurant in Cavendish Square, dined on an annual dish, "Salad of the Gardens of Spain." Concomitants: cold sliced chicken reposing on lemon-yellow hearts of lettuce, criss-crossed with ribbons of pimiento, topped by a mold of fruit salad-sliced oranges, large green Malaga grapes, thin strips of pineapple- all chilled and jelled in fruit juices. Gourmet Alfonso then finished the "Gardens" off with cubes of melon and succulent strawberries soaked in rare old sherry, enjoyed himself thoroughly...