Logan Republican | 1903-07-25 | Page 1 | Epicure Who Lived High

EPICURE WHO LIVED HIGH. Expensive Dishes Provided Famou English Courrrvand. Lord Alvnnley, a noted wit anil hlfih liver In England a hundred years ago, instated on having an apple tart on his dinner table every day' throughout the year. On one occasion he paid a caterer $1,000 for a luncheon put up In a basket that sufneed a small beating beat-ing party.golng up tho Thames. Being ono of a dozen men dining together at a London c'ub where each was io-quired io-quired to produce his own dish, Al-vanlcy's, Al-vanlcy's, as the most expensive, won him the advantage of being entertained enter-tained free of cost. This benefit wtw gained at an expenso of $310, that being be-ing tho price of a simple fricassee composed com-posed entirely of the "nolx" or small pieces at each side of tho back taken from thirteen kinds of birds, among them being n hundred snipe, forty woodcocks and twenty pheasants in all about 300 birds.