Word: connaught
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...birds, which weigh about 16 oz. when plucked and readied for the oven, should not in fact be eaten within hours of decease. They should be "hung" for at least three days to bring out their uniquely gamy flavor. At London's incomparable Connaught Hotel dining room, they are served in classic fashion: roasted but bloody, in their own juice, with paté, bread sauce or gravy and potato crisps, preferably accompanied by a light claret "to tone them down a bit," as Connaught Headwaiter Joseph O'Toole puts it. (Sherlock Holmes preferred his grouse fried with bacon...
Gladys had plentiful suitors with blue blood and fortunes too: the Crown Prince of Germany, three noble Romans, the venerable Duke of Norfolk, who got down on all fours at her order to play dog, and the Duke of Connaught, the late Queen Victoria's son, whom she dismissed in a letter full of "cruel and seething words...