This consists of a simple gros de laine, trimmed with ashes of roses, with overskirt of scare bleu ventre saint gris, cut bias on the off-side, with facings of petit polonaise and narrow insertions of pa^te de
foie gras backstitched to the mise en sce`ne in the form of a jeu d'esprit.
Philip asked Lawson and Hayward to come and see his new rooms, and they came, one with a bottle of whiskey, the other with a pate de
foie gras; and he was delighted when they praised his taste.
When he is well his appetite is truly wonderful--nothing comes amiss to him, sir, from pate de
foie gras to potatoes.
At a grand diplomatic dinner given by his chief, he had started up and declared that a pate de
foie gras was poisoned.
And even then I didn't know whom I had there, opposite me, busy now devouring a slice of pate de
foie gras. Not in the least.
It was lucky that some tins of fine preserves were stowed in a locker in my stateroom; hard bread I could always get hold of; and so he lived on stewed chicken, PATE DE
FOIE GRAS, aspara- gus, cooked oysters, sardines--on all sorts of abominable sham delicacies out of tins.
There were a couple of brace of cold woodcock, a pheasant, a pâté de
foie gras pie with a group of ancient and cobwebby bottles.
The Appetite whose coarse clamoring was for the unwholesome viands of the general market and the public refectory shall be cast into eternal famine, whilst that which firmly through civilly insisted on ortolans, caviare, terrapin, anchovies, pates de
foie gras and all such Christian comestibles shall flesh its spiritual tooth in the souls of them forever and ever, and wreak its divine thirst upon the immortal parts of the rarest and richest wines ever quaffed here below.
BY BEN GLAZE COUNTDOWN stars Rachel Riley and Susie Dent are today backing a ban on
foie gras.
Initially, I didn't want to try to the pass arounds, thinking
foie gras is
foie gras is
foie gras.
The hot and cold
foie gras education I had was in a restaurant called Tri Coleur, one of the best restaurants I had been to in Paris or Brussels.
HEADS up,
foie gras gourmands, the pate party is over -- as it should be.