"London the chefs perfected an omelette incorporating smoked haddock, Parmesan cheese and cream, which pleased him so much that he insisted that it be prepared wherever he travelled. The Omelette Arnold Bennett has remained a standard dish at the Savoy ever since. A number of streets in the Bradwell area of Newcastle-under-Lyme, which neighbours Stoke-on-Trent, are named after places and characters in Bennett's works, and Bennett himself. Two blue plaques have been installed to commemorate Bennett. The first, at his former residence in Cadogan Square, London was placed by London County Council in 1958. The second was placed in 2014"
"them: ""Teacher of Anatomy, Essayist and Poet"". It ends with a quote from Horace's ""Ars Poetica: Miscuit Utile Dulci"": ""He mingled the useful with the pleasant."" Sources Other Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. (; August 29, 1809 – October 7, 1894) was an American physician, poet, and polymath based in Boston. A member of the Fireside Poets, he was acclaimed by his peers as one of the best writers of the day. His most famous prose works are the ""Breakfast-Table"" series, which began with ""The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table"" (1858). He was also an important medical reformer."
"Languedoc casserole of beans with pork, mutton, sausage and goose.) Reviewing the 1977 edition, ""The Times"" called it ""arguably the most influential cookery book of our age, one which brought food writing into the realms of literature."" The first edition, illustrated by Juliet Renny, was published by Michael Joseph, with a simultaneous paperback issue by Penguin Books. The first American edition was published by Harper and Row in 1962. A revised edition was published by Michael Joseph in 1965 and by Penguin in 1967. Further reprints with minor revisions followed in 1969, 1970, 1977, 1981, 1984, 1986 and 1997. A"
"The Duc de L'Omelette ""The Duc de L'Omelette"" is a humorous short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe. It was first published in the Philadelphia ""Saturday Courier"" on March 3, 1832, and was subsequently revised a number of times by the author. The Duc de L'Omelette dies while dining on an ortolan, and finds himself in hell: an apartment filled with various works of art that has a window overlooking a fiery landscape. Face to face with Satan, the Duc manages to avoid damnation by cheating him at a game of cards. Poe originally titled the story ""The Duke"
"Benedick"" in 1894. In an interview recorded in the ""Talk of the Town"" column of ""The New Yorker"" in 1942, the year before his death, Lemuel Benedict, a retired Wall Street stock broker, said that he had wandered into the Waldorf Hotel in 1894 and, hoping to find a cure for his morning hangover, ordered ""buttered toast, poached eggs, crisp bacon, and a hooker of hollandaise"". Oscar Tschirky, the ""maître d'hôtel"", was so impressed with the dish that he put it on the breakfast and luncheon menus but substituted ham for the bacon and a toasted English muffin for the"
"Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. (; August 29, 1809 – October 7, 1894) was an American physician, poet, and polymath based in Boston. A member of the Fireside Poets, he was acclaimed by his peers as one of the best writers of the day. His most famous prose works are the ""Breakfast-Table"" series, which began with ""The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table"" (1858). He was also an important medical reformer. In addition to his work as an author and poet, Holmes also served as a physician, professor, lecturer and inventor and, although he never practiced it, he received"
"pulses and grains, sauces, sweet dishes and cakes, preserves, and bread—interspersed, as in David's earlier works, with articles and essays. The title of the book comes from an essay published in 1964 and reprinted in ""An Omelette and a Glass of Wine"", and is a reference to ""South Wind"", the best-known novel by David's mentor Norman Douglas. The last of the books planned by David was ""Elizabeth David's Christmas"" (2003). She and Norman had discussed such a book as early as the 1970s, but work on other projects precluded it. After David's death, Norman found when sorting out the author's"
"has to work for him to repay the debt. Dr. Prechtwinkle tells Oscar about a contest where the goal is to eat a ""Bagful o' Chicken"" at all 211 Chicken in a Bag restaurants nationwide. The prize from this contest would pay Oscar's debt, so they attempt to win it. Chicken Trek Chicken Trek: The Third Strange Thing That Happened to Oscar Noodleman is a 1987 children's comedy novel by Stephen Manes with drawings by Ron Barrett, illustrator of ""Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs."" As the title implies, it is the third of a series told by from the"
"Mulligan Stew (novel) Mulligan Stew is a postmodern novel by Gilbert Sorrentino. It was first published in 1979 by Grove Press, simultaneously in hardcover and softcover. The book is a metafictional and parodistic examination of the creative process of writing a novel and its failing. It is dedicated to Brian O'Nolan and his ""virtue hilaritas"". The title is a direct reference to the hodge-podge nature of the food. More cryptically, it is a punning allusion (""Mulligan's too"") to the character Buck Mulligan in James Joyce ""Ulysses"". Sorrentino began the novel in November 1971 and finished it in February 1975. At"
"during the mid-16th century, but the versions ""alumelle"" and ""alumete"" are employed by the Ménagier de Paris (II, 5) in 1393. Rabelais (""Pantagruel"", IV, 9) mentions an ""homelaicte d'oeufs"", Olivier de Serres an ""amelette"", François Pierre La Varenne's ""Le cuisinier françois"" (1651) has ""aumelette"", and the modern ""omelette"" appears in ""Cuisine bourgoise"" (1784). According to the founding legend of the annual giant Easter omelette of Bessières, Haute-Garonne, when Napoleon Bonaparte and his army were traveling through southern France, they decided to rest for the night near the town of Bessières. Napoleon feasted on an omelette prepared by a local innkeeper,"
"Jeeves Makes an Omelette ""Jeeves Makes an Omelette"" is a short story by P. G. Wodehouse, and features the young gentleman Bertie Wooster and his valet Jeeves. The story was published in the ""Star Weekly"" in Canada in August 1958. The story was also included in the 1959 collection ""A Few Quick Ones"". This Jeeves story is a rewritten version of the Reggie Pepper story, ""Doing Clarence a Bit of Good"". The Reggie Pepper version was published in the UK in ""The Strand Magazine"" in May 1913, and in the US in ""Pictorial Review"" in April 1914 under the title"
"John made no bones."" "" John Thomas Idlet John Thomas Idlet (John Thomas) (December 31, 1930 – March 29, 2002) was an American Beat poet who wrote sporadically and had an aversion to publishing his work. Charles Bukowski called him ""the best unread poet in America."" John Thomas Idlet was born in Baltimore in 1930, the son of a teacher and World War I veteran who claimed to have invented the ""double header"" ice-cream cone. His father later committed suicide. Thomas attended Loyola College and described being ""poisoned by Thomas Wolfe at an early age"". After school, he considered entering"
"series, foreseeing a new black market. Lipidleggin' ""Lipidleggin'"" is a science fiction short story by F Paul Wilson. It was first published in ""Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine"" in 1978. The United States government has outlawed butter and untreated eggs because of their high cholesterol content. Gurney, an antiques dealer in rural New Jersey discovers several farmers who are producing the 'real stuff' and starts dealing in them, thus becoming a 'lipidlegger'. A decade after the ban, Gurney is approached by an out-of-towner for his product, and only after showing the goods does the man reveal he is in fact"
"a collector. The undersea wreck of the ""Unicorn"" was loosely inspired by images of the wreck of a 17th-century Swedish vessel, the ""Vasa"", which Hergé had collected. The instance in the story in which a shark swallows a large box (that the characters hope contains the treasure) is based on a real account of a shark that swallowed a camera from the American underwater photographer Otis Barton, which Hergé had encountered in a French illustrated magazine. The brief appearance of Dr. Daumière, who warns Haddock to cease drinking alcohol, was an allusion to Hergé's own physician, Dr. Daumerie. Hergé made"
"John Dough John Dough was a common name for a gingerbread man at the turn of the 20th century, though the best-remembered John Dough is the character created by L. Frank Baum in his 1906 novel, ""John Dough and the Cherub""; the character also makes a cameo appearance in Baum's ""The Road to Oz"". If the fragment known as ""An Oz Book"" is genuine, Baum may have intended to include John Dough in his fifteenth Oz book had he lived to write it. John Dough was a life sized gingerbread man baked for a celebration of Independence Day, and brought"
"Lipidleggin' ""Lipidleggin'"" is a science fiction short story by F Paul Wilson. It was first published in ""Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine"" in 1978. The United States government has outlawed butter and untreated eggs because of their high cholesterol content. Gurney, an antiques dealer in rural New Jersey discovers several farmers who are producing the 'real stuff' and starts dealing in them, thus becoming a 'lipidlegger'. A decade after the ban, Gurney is approached by an out-of-towner for his product, and only after showing the goods does the man reveal he is in fact a Health Department inspector - it"
"John Thomas Idlet John Thomas Idlet (John Thomas) (December 31, 1930 – March 29, 2002) was an American Beat poet who wrote sporadically and had an aversion to publishing his work. Charles Bukowski called him ""the best unread poet in America."" John Thomas Idlet was born in Baltimore in 1930, the son of a teacher and World War I veteran who claimed to have invented the ""double header"" ice-cream cone. His father later committed suicide. Thomas attended Loyola College and described being ""poisoned by Thomas Wolfe at an early age"". After school, he considered entering the priesthood, but instead served"
"cook was known as a bhandary. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle created a Lascar foil to Sherlock Holmes in ""The Man with the Twisted Lip"". Lascars aboard the ship ""Patna"" figure prominently in the early chapters of Joseph Conrad's novel ""Lord Jim"". Frances Hodgson Burnett's novel ""A Little Princess"" features a lascar named Ram Dass. Also, Caleb Carr portrays two lascars as bodyguards for a Spanish diplomat near the end of ""The Angel of Darkness"". In ""Wuthering Heights"", it is speculated that Heathcliff, the main character, may be of lascar origin. Amitav Ghosh's book ""Sea of Poppies"" portrays the British East"
"followed, it is a unique blend of many things, both those produced locally and those that have arrived from elsewhere."" Food writer and chef Mark Bittman created his own version of Hangtown Fry in one of his Minimalist cooking videos for ""The New York Times"". Hangtown fry Hangtown fry is a type of omelette made famous during the California Gold Rush in the 1850s. The most common version includes bacon and oysters combined with eggs, and fried together. The dish was invented in Placerville, California, then known as Hangtown. According to most accounts, the dish was invented when a gold"
"desserts, cakes and drinks. The book reprints one of David's most quoted sentences, first printed in ""Vogue"" in 1959, and included in ""Is there a Nutmeg in the House"" in 2000: ""If I had my way—and I shan't—my Christmas Day eating and drinking would consist of an omelette and cold ham and a nice bottle of wine at lunchtime, and a smoked salmon sandwich with a glass of champagne on a tray in bed in the evening."" Between 1995 and 2011 Penguin Books issued four paperback selections from David's books: ""I'll be with You in the Squeezing of a Lemon"""
"I have heard of a pie she raised in the form of a goose trussed for the spit; the real goose was boned; a duck was boned and laid within it; a fowl was boned and laid within the duck; a boned partridge within the fowl; and a boned pigeon within the partridge. The whole having been properly seasoned, the interstices were filled with rich gravy. Benjamin Disraeli in his novel ""Venetia"" describes an English dinner around 1770 that included ...that masterpiece of the culinary art, a great battalia pie, in which the bodies of chickens, pigeons, and rabbits, were"
"Oliver Onions George Oliver Onions (13 November 1873 – 9 April 1961), who published under the name Oliver Onions, was a British writer of short stories and over 40 novels. He wrote in a variety of genres but is perhaps best remembered for his ghost stories, notably the highly regarded collection ""Widdershins"" and the widely anthologized novella ""The Beckoning Fair One"". He was married to the novelist Berta Ruck. George Oliver Onions was born on 13 November 1873 in Bradford, Yorkshire, England, to George Frederick Onions, a bank cashier (b. 1847, London, England) and Emily Alice Fearnley (b. 1850, Scholes,"
"lettuce leaves, broad beans with bacon, and aubergines ""à la Provençale"". David revised the book for a second edition, published in the UK and the U.S. by Penguin Books. Translations were published in Italian in 1975 and Danish in 1980. David further revised and enlarged the book for a third edition, published by Penguin in 1987. In 2009 the Folio Society published an edition with new illustrations by Sophie MacCarthy and an introduction by Rose Prince. The fifth, and last, of David's volumes consisting primarily of recipes is by far the longest of them. The 1970 paperback edition published by"
"is in a novel by Tobias Smollett in which one of the characters states, ""My head sings and simmers like a pot of chowder"". A Manx sailor in his memoirs refers to a meal made aboard a British ship on a voyage through the Caribbean in 1786: ""...we frequently served up a mess called ""chowder"", consisting of a mixture of fresh fish, salt pork, pounded biscuit and onions; and which, when well seasoned and stewed, we found to be an excellent palatable dish."" Cookbooks of the period included recipes for ""Chowder, a Sea Dish"". In 1830 an English baked dish"
"mixture of corn starch and water that exhibits non-Newtonian properties, was named after the substance in Dr. Seuss' books. Web-series RWBY has a character called Dr. Bartholomew Oobleck, which is named after the book. Bartholomew and the Oobleck Bartholomew and the Oobleck is a 1949 book by Dr. Seuss (Theodor Geisel). It follows the adventures of a young boy named Bartholomew Cubbins, who must rescue his kingdom from a sticky green substance called ""oobleck."" The book is a sequel of sorts to ""The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins"". Unlike most of Geisel's books, which are written in anapestic tetrameter, ""Bartholomew"
"and Homer about eating meat, but Oakley told Cohen that the story needed something more specific to serve as the basis of Homer and Lisa's dispute. George Meyer, a writer known among the staff for his ""bizarre physical jokes"", contributed the idea of the barbecue pig getting caught in the spillway and flying into the air. Cohen credits writer John Swartzwelder for inspiring the scene in which Homer finds it impossible to believe that bacon, ham, and pork chops could possibly come from the same animal. According to Cohen it was based on a real statement made by Swartzwelder, who"
"Cakes and Ale Cakes and Ale, or, The Skeleton in the Cupboard (1930) is a novel by the British author W. Somerset Maugham. Maugham exposes the misguided social snobbery levelled at the character Rosie Driffield, whose frankness, honesty, and sexual freedom make her a target of conservative propriety. Her character is treated favourably by the book's narrator, Ashenden, who understands that she was a muse to the many artists who surrounded her, and who himself enjoyed her sexual favours. Maugham drew his title from the remark of Sir Toby Belch to Malvolio in William Shakespeare's ""Twelfth Night"": """"Dost thou think,"
"The Man with the Twisted Lip ""The Man with the Twisted Lip"", one of the 56 short Sherlock Holmes stories written by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is the sixth of the twelve stories in ""The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes"". The story was first published in the ""Strand Magazine"" in December 1891. Doyle ranked ""The Man with the Twisted Lip<nowiki>""</nowiki> sixteenth in a list of his nineteen favourite Sherlock Holmes stories. Late at night, Kate Whitney, a friend of Dr. Watson's wife, calls on them. Her husband, Isa, has been absent for several days. Frantic with worry, she begs"
"Bartholomew and the Oobleck Bartholomew and the Oobleck is a 1949 book by Dr. Seuss (Theodor Geisel). It follows the adventures of a young boy named Bartholomew Cubbins, who must rescue his kingdom from a sticky green substance called ""oobleck."" The book is a sequel of sorts to ""The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins"". Unlike most of Geisel's books, which are written in anapestic tetrameter, ""Bartholomew and the Oobleck"" is a prose work, like its predecessor. Geisel said he drew inspiration for the book from a conversation he overheard while stationed in Belgium during World War II. During a rainstorm,"
"Nobody"" in the ""Best First Novel"" category. Additionally, her story ""Cold Turkey"" won the 1993 Anthony Award for ""Best Short-story"". Diane Mott Davidson Diane Mott Davidson (born ) is an American author of mystery novels that use the theme of food, an idea she got from Robert B. Parker. Several recipes are included in each book, and each novel title is a play on a food or drink word. Mott Davidson studied political science at Wellesley College and lived across the hall from Hillary Clinton. In a few of her novels (particularly, ""The Cereal Murders""), she references a prestigious eastern"
"A Taste for Death (James novel) A Taste for Death is a 1986 crime novel by the British writer P. D. James, the seventh in the popular Commander Adam Dalgliesh series. The novel won the Silver Dagger in 1986, losing out on the Gold to Ruth Rendell's ""Live Flesh"". It was nominated for a Booker Prize in 1987. The book has been adapted for television and radio. In the dingy vestry of St. Matthew's Church, Paddington, two bodies have been found with their throats slashed. One is an alcoholic vagrant, whereas the other is Sir Paul Berowne, a baronet and"
"Lovecraft stated, ""I have Onions' ""Ghosts in Daylight"" ... I didn't care much for the various tales."" Karl Edward Wagner's short story, ""In the Pines"" (1973) is an homage to Onions' ""The Beckoning Fair One"". ""The Beckoning Fair One"" was also the inspiration for a 1968 Italian/French horror film called ""A Quiet Place in the Country"". Russell Hoban alludes to Onions' work in his books ""Her Name Was Lola"" and ""Amaryllis Night and Day"". Oliver Onions George Oliver Onions (13 November 1873 – 9 April 1961), who published under the name Oliver Onions, was a British writer of short stories"
"his reputation as a writer. In 1974, the BBC released a three episode mini-series ""Cakes and Ale"", starring Michael Hordern and Judy Cornwell. It was rebroadcast on Masterpiece Theatre in the US. Cakes and Ale Cakes and Ale, or, The Skeleton in the Cupboard (1930) is a novel by the British author W. Somerset Maugham. Maugham exposes the misguided social snobbery levelled at the character Rosie Driffield, whose frankness, honesty, and sexual freedom make her a target of conservative propriety. Her character is treated favourably by the book's narrator, Ashenden, who understands that she was a muse to the many"