Cakes & Ale A Dissertation on Banquets Interspersed with Various Recipes, More or Less Original, and anecdotes, mainly veracious

CHAPTER VI

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DINNER

Origin--Early dinners--The noble Romans--"Vitellius the Glutton"--Origin of haggis--The Saxons--Highland hospitality--The French invasion--Waterloo avenged--The bad fairy "_Ala_"--Comparisons--The English cook or the foreign food torturer?--Plain or flowery--Fresh fish and the flavour wrapped up--George Augustus Sala--Doctor Johnson again 59-72