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THE LOVE OF FOOD

... that one of the charms of the asparagus season has disappeared, by which I mean its briefness. We have been having asparagus for several months, a doubtful blessing of civilisation, so that when the real time for asparagus begins, we sigh En core dies ...

Published: Wednesday 24 May 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1023 | Page: 48 | Tags: Illustrations 

ELKINGTON & CO.,LTD

... 16006 Asparagus Server, Hand-Saw Pierced and Engraved, with any usual Spoon Pattern Handle, Elkington Plate, --£1 6 O Sterling- Silver, £3 15 O Asparagus Dish, with Drainer. Gadroon, and Shell Mounts in Elkineton Plate. £3 0 0 The New Asparagus si Eater ...

Published: Wednesday 12 June 1895
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 187 | Page: 41 | Tags: Illustrations 

Smedleu's

... Smeftlejts READY NOW Fresh Cucumber Sandwiches. Luscious dishes of Raspberries. Available with their own sugar. Goose berries, Asparagus, Spinach, available every day at FIXED PRICES. Not cooked, not canned, but FROZEN FRESH. fresh frozen foods The Smedley Fresh ...

Published: Wednesday 19 February 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 133 | Page: 34 | Tags: Illustrations 

Smedley's

... Fresh Cucumber Sandwiches. I iirrinnc nirnnr r\( R TCrtnflrrior /^MiuuaHir.X Available with their own sugar. Goose berries, Asparagus, Spinach, available every day at FIXED PRICES. Not cooked, not canned, but FROZEN FRESH. FRESH frozen FOODS The Smedley Fresh ...

Published: Wednesday 05 February 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 141 | Page: 33 | Tags: Illustrations 

Graphic

... STREWTH IT'S MORE LIKE CUTTIN' ROMMEL'S ASPARAGUS I* WIRE, IS IT? YOU BE THANKFUL IT AIN'T MINED! DRAWN* BY FRANK REYNOLDS. ...

Published: Wednesday 14 June 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 21 | Page: 5 | Tags: Illustrations 

High Life Below Stairs

... The BUTLER (discussing guests of the evening Their soup was all right. They was pretty fair on the peas. But my Gawd the asparagus dated 'em! Drawn by Bert Thomas. ...

Published: Wednesday 25 November 1925
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 34 | Page: 22 | Tags: Illustrations 

HARRODS

... at their loveliest here Six lovely Cama- tions garnished \M\ with asparagus 4M fern, foliage, and ftW silver foil. ...

Published: Wednesday 30 March 1927
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 200 | Page: 56 | Tags: Illustrations 

MOTLEY NOTES: A Foolish Superstition

... me that it is utterly impossible to make an asparagus-bed in my garden because the soil is unsuitable for the growing of asparagus, I believe him implicitly, and make up my mind to do without the asparagus-bed and when the gardener next-door assures me ...

Published: Wednesday 26 February 1913
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1231 | Page: 2 | Tags: Illustrations 

OUR LADIES' PAGES

... day, with much solemnity the crunching or celery season, and the sucking or asparagus. We 've passed one, and the other hasn't arrived. So we 're nowhere One of his asparagus stories is so good that it seems worth repeating. Some wag of early Victorian ...

Published: Wednesday 19 August 1903
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1021 | Page: 34 | Tags: Illustrations 

Motley Notes: INSIDE ONLY; IV.-- RÔTI

... which yields to the knife scarcely more resist- ingly than a mush room. Better still, a vege table. Asparagus is supreme, but the convention of asparagus is an inexplicable barbarity. It is a mystery why it should be decent and cleanly to maul a limp, ...

Published: Wednesday 20 August 1930
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1238 | Page: 4 | Tags: Illustrations 

HARRODS LTD

... natural Malmaisons. In Pink, Damask and Coral, White or Tach'e. (AF 81) ]^(f jQ Beautiful Spray of Pink Tiger Lilies and Asparagus rr 1st Fern. AF 82 y/O A rtificial /Flcnvers Ground Floor. This distinctive Bunch of four large Silk Poppies, toning from ...

Published: Wednesday 11 June 1930
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 116 | Page: 51 | Tags: Illustrations 

OUR LADIES' PAGE: FROCKS AND FURBELOWS

... fashionable, we might even take to wearing aigrettes of asparagus in the hair, for there is no end to the whimsicalities we may not subscribe to if the ukase of the Mode goeth forth. Talking of asparagus, I wonder in this season, when everybody is more or ...

Published: Wednesday 30 May 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1327 | Page: 43 | Tags: Illustrations