Feasts Quote by Paula Brackston

“It was a pity she couldn't do justice to the meal, which featured Scottish salmon, steaming roast joints, venison haunch accompanied by sausages and…

— Lisa Kleypas

“Amanda lost count of the various delicacies that were offered to her. There were four kinds of soup, including turtle and lobster, and several…

— Lisa Kleypas

“The three of us ate a fine supper of grilled trout with sorrel cream sauce, and red potatoes out of Britney's old garden behind…

— World Made By Hand James Howard Kunstler

“It was a glorious supper. There was kippered salmon, and Finnan haddocks, and a lamb's head, and a haggis—a celebrated Scotch dish, gentlemen, which…

— Charles Dickens

“Flaking florentine rounds,' he whispered. 'Peaches in snow-cream.' 'No,' she murmured. 'No more.' 'Meat pies. Mutton balls topped with spinach and walnuts and cumin…

— Lawrence Norfolk

But beef is rare within these oxless isles; Goat's flesh there is, no doubt, and kid, and mutton; And, when a holiday upon them…

— Lord Byron

“Any meal at the front was an exercise in war-time ingenuity and devotion of the lower classes for their officers. The Petite Marmite a…

— Jeremiah Tower

“The food was slices of some kind of roast meat in a watery gravy,”

— Sophie Cleverly

“The banquet proceeded. The first course, a mince of olives, shrimp and onions baked in oyster shells with cheese and parsley was followed by…

— Jack Vance

“Dinners at Stony Cross Park were famously lavish, and this one was no exception. Eight courses of fish, game, poultry, and beef were served,…

— Lisa Kleypas

And roast beef and Yorkshire pudding is my personal signature dish.

— Ben Elton

When mighty roast beef was the Englishman's food It ennobled our hearts and enriched our blood-- Our soldiers were brave and our courtiers were…

— Henry Fielding