1906 A Bachelor's Cupboard

A BACHELOR'S CUPBOARD Carving and Game the Thames, with the famous " Star and Garter," Kew Bridge, were some of his frequent haunts, and the free- dom of the kitchen was always his. A late royal duke whose talents and knowledge were world-famous once exclaimed aloud at the large house party of a fellow-nobleman in Worcestershire, " Take this away! it's a very bad help." This must have been mortifying to the carver, but he doubtless deserved it, for some carvers destroy everything that falls under their careless, clumsy hands; they never think of " diving for green fat, sounding for cod sound, divid- ing the fin and liver in equal portions, and they will serve woodcock and snipe without trail, turkey without stuffing, and plover without toast." Every bachelor epicure knows that steel Is detrimen- tal to the delicate flavor of fish, and should insist upon being given a silver fish knife for serving it.

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