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...Mario's Caprice Restaurant in London's fashionable West End, a guest last week could choose from a menu of caviar, turtle soup, sole bonne femme, roast duck with wine sauce and pineapple, whole baby chickens fried in butter with mushrooms, asparagus in butter sauce, feathery soufflés aflame with brandy, strawberries, peaches in kirsch, crêpes suzette en liqueurs, petits fours. "And," said Mario, "you can have it all if you like." To encourage the dollar tourist trade, Britain's government had lifted the wartime limit of five shillings (70? U.S.) per meal...
This isn't so remarkable when one considers that last year 'Cliffe-dwellers polished off five tons of roast lamb, four tons of roast beef, three tons of ham, and almost two tons of butter. As if this weren'nt cough, they topped it off with 12,300 eggs and close to 300 gallons of ice cream...
Despite a persistent rain and unmanageable streets, over 100 persons came to Felix's Garfield Street residence to help eat four roast turkeys, six legs of lamb, to deplete a copious liquor supply, and to dance the zenbeikiko, a dance of ancient Greece...
...week a progressive Viennese restaurateur named Rudolf Schiener bought Bubi's 3,500-lb. carcass. With a spirit and enterprise new to conservative old Vienna, he renamed his restaurant "The Elephant," and began experimenting with Bubi's remains in the kitchen. He wrote new menus featuring Afrikabraten (roast elephant), Bubi Schnitzel (elephant cutlet), Gulyas a la Bubi and Bubiwurst...
Over 200 members of the organization ate the roast beef dinner and listened to short speeches by officers of the University. Edward Reynolds '15, administrative vice-president, Edward S. Mason. Dean of the Graduate School of Public Administration, and Francis M. Rogers, Dean...