Food quiz 2

[wellinghall]

4. Who gave a dinner party where he served, "Caviare, turtle soup, homard newburg, perdrix aux choux, asparagus, blackberry ice, mushrooms, sherry, Mumm 1911, light port, 1875 brandy"?

5. Whose host urged him, "Don't spare the caviare," "Eat your fill of the whitebait," "And when the porterhouse steak comes along, wade into it"?

6. Who was astonished to have, "A quite epicurean little cold supper laid out ... There were a couple of brace of cold woodcock, a pheasant, a pate de foie gras pie with a group of ancient and cobwebby bottles."

Comments

[legionseaglelj.livejournal.com]

6 is Doctor Watson, and I can't recall at the moment if the story is the Noble Bachelor or The Naval Treaty.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

It is indeed.

[hilarityallen.livejournal.com]

Dammit! I talked myself out of that one. I went "That's a Sherlock Holmes story!" and then I got myself confused by the cobwebbed bottles, which I convinced myself were out of character. But no! my subconscious was right!

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

I think the cobwebbed bottles, and indeed the dinner, were in honour of their guest.

[legionseaglelj.livejournal.com]

And, indeed, the occasion (I've now checked my references) given that they were celebrating (albeit in bittersweet circumstances) the reunion of a couple who had believed themselves parted forever.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Indeed :-)

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Answers are here:
http://wellinghall.livejournal.com/1191804.html

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Ah - I was just thinking it might well be - glad to see I was right!

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

It is indeed Dr Watson.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Answers are here:
http://wellinghall.livejournal.com/1191804.html