Dinners and diners at home and abroad : with piquant plates and choice cuts, comical, anatomical and gastronomical forming a comprehensive dining directory for all palates and all pockets / by E.L. Blanchard.

  • Blanchard, E. L. (Edward L.), 1820-1889.
Date:
1860
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Dinners and diners at home and abroad : with piquant plates and choice cuts, comical, anatomical and gastronomical forming a comprehensive dining directory for all palates and all pockets / by E.L. Blanchard. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    said the captain; “ you must own I have given you time and exercise sufficient, for we have had a delightful voyage.” “ Delightful ! I have been nearly drowned, burned, tatooed, scalped, impaled, roasted, toasted, chewed, devoured, and digested, and all this in consequence of your very pressing invitation to dinner.” From this time John Smith rigidly took his chop in the City. Moral. Beware, when dining abroad, of an invitation to take “pot-luck” with a friend.”