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... MAPPIN BROS. Incorporated, V I (1908), LTD Ml MAPPIN BROS. Incorporated, V w I (1908), LTD. ASPARAGUS DISHES in Prince's Plate and Sterling Silver. 15,347 James I., with Sauce Boat and Server complete. Prince's Plate, £3 12 6 Sterling Silver, £10 5 ...

Published: Wednesday 17 May 1911
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 154 | Page: 41 | Tags: Photographs 

NEW LAMPS and OLD: A Fortnightly Causerie on Life and Letters

... its fifty rows of neat and parallel green ribbons, the half-acre of spring cabbage innocent of weed, the raised beds of asparagus, with their monstrous, fat green cigars pushing up and lengthening, the early potatoes bursting through the glass frames ...

Published: Saturday 03 June 1944
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1438 | Page: 28 | Tags: Photographs 

WHEN YOU DON'T WANT MEAT

... or dinner. Salads, of course, play a large part in a vegetarian diet. Spare no effort to serve them fresh and crisp. Try asparagus served cold with a simple Hollandaise sauce. Try tender dandelion leaves, watercress, chicory and chervil in your salads ...

Published: Monday 01 June 1936
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1120 | Page: 76 | Tags: Photographs 

A SILVER DINNER-SERVICE

... twelve heavy silver meat-dishes and covers, eight entree-dishes, vegetable-dishes, and revolving breakfast-dishes, salvers, asparagus- dishes, bread-baskets, menu-stands, flower-vases, cruets, sauce-boats, ice-pails, and champagne-holders, which are all beautiful ...

Published: Wednesday 12 April 1899
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 221 | Page: 40 | Tags: Photographs 

If Gossip We Must..

... remarks last week about long-stewed asparagus at restaurants has emerged the information that asparagus served in this fashion is not only tasteless but dangerous. I cannot see where the danger comes in, seeing that asparagus, cooked twenty-four hours before ...

Published: Wednesday 31 May 1933
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1678 | Page: 24 | Tags: Photographs 

FILMS

... and Lady Tree are in the cast THE AWKWARD FRUIT Two players discover the ways of High Society, especially with regard to asparagus, a little difficult in the Warner Brothers' film of that name MISS JOAN GARDNER who, Mr. Alexander Korda prophesies, is destined ...

Published: Saturday 06 August 1932
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 235 | Page: 27 | Tags: Photographs 

Advertisements

... glazed and plain, including Smoked Salmon, Truffle, Mushroom, Foie Gras, Prawns, Caviar, Anchovies. Chicken Sandwiches. Asparagus Rolls. Lobster Bouchees. Cheese Straws. Marrons Gateaux. Charlotte Russe. Savarin au Kirsch. Friandises. Petit Fours. French ...

Published: Wednesday 12 August 1953
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 157 | Page: 42 | Tags: Photographs 

AN AFTER-TENNIS SUPPER

... in other words when they are really feeling ready for it. For instance Strawberry Cocktail Lobster Newburg with Asparagus Salad (or Asparagus Vinaigrette) Cherry Island Everything except the lobster can be ready beforehand. Strawberry Cocktail is simply ...

Published: Saturday 14 July 1928
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 687 | Page: 6 | Tags: Photographs 

THE CLUBMAN: WAR-TIME EXPERIMENTS: THE SAFETY OF SUBSTITUTES: WINES AND CAKES; The Science of Substitutes

... bracken as Asparagus. a substlt^e for asparagus was suggested to me first by the Japanese some years before the war, and I have a vague memory of being taken to dine in a Japanese restaurant some where near Covent Garden and eating the asparagus substitute ...

Published: Wednesday 30 May 1917
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1226 | Page: 12 | Tags: Photographs 

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... time PARIS LONDON Dinner-time. Ask your Travel Agent AIR FRANCE HAYMARKET, S.W.I Wedding Reception M nu Smoked Salmon and Asparagus Can pes. Chicken Sandwiches. Salted Alrr ids. Prawns and Mushrooms on Toa Sweetcorn Bouchees. Cream Cheese Eclairs. Chipol ...

Published: Wednesday 27 May 1953
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 204 | Page: 52 | Tags: Photographs 

THE LIGHTER SIDE OF LIFE

... social ladder brings me to the Asparagus Queen. To wealth unbounded, untrammelled and untold, I am nothing if not deferential and an island, a piece of land entirely surrounded by water and entirely covered by asparagus, is the possession of this child ...

Published: Saturday 04 July 1925
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2154 | Page: 34 | Tags: Photographs 

THE LIGHTER SIDE OF LIFE

... torrent. Quite so, said the parson. Agreed. I TyTore about Mrs. Harry Q. Asparagus, the lady from Pennsylvania whose millions derived from Asparagus Island, whence comes the asparagus that is sent all over the world in bottles. Within a week from now Mrs ...

Published: Saturday 25 July 1925
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2132 | Page: 38 | Tags: Photographs