The Duc de Bourgogne (Louis XIV’s grandson) and his two brothers had been taught the polite innovation of using a fork to eat with. But when they were invited to the King’s table at supper, he would have none of it and forbade them to use such an instrument. He would never had had an occasion to reproach me in the matter, for I have never in my life used anything to eat with but my knife and my fingers. – from the correspondence of the Princess Palatine, sister-in-law to Louis XIV (late 17th Century France)
Category: Thought for the Day
ELV’s Thought for the Day
The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. – A. J. Liebling
ELV Haikus!
Eating Las Vegas note: We just jumped off the plane from New York, after unexpectedly taping two* Iron Chef America episodes, and are filled with melancholy for more than one reason, morosely making us manufacture another malcontent-ed haiku:
ELV returns
From Iron Chef adventure(s)
To depressed home turf
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* Only one was scheduled. The crazy, delicious details of how we came to judge another episode will be provided in a post later this week.