Delicate cous cous, fragrant with toasted almonds and confit lemons, sits in a clean white bowl into which is placed lobster tails and stunning shellfish bisque.
Sitting down to lunch at a posh beach resort on Coronado Island, off San Diego, he does not order a vegan special but a hearty Angus burger with bacon, cheese and French fries, and a side-order of lobster bisque.
Being a man of high standards, from his backcombed hair to his exquisitely shined shoes, he found himself pining for the lobster bisque at Maxim's.
About 1820, glazed porcelain (Dresden) doll heads and unglazed bisque (ceramic) heads became popular.
A French bisque doll made by the Jumeau family in the 1860s had a swivel neck; the body was made of kid-covered wood or wire or of kid stuffed with sawdust, a type of manufacture that remained common until it was supplanted by molded plastics in the 20th century.
The period from 1860 to 1890 was the golden age of the elaborately dressed Parisian bisque fashion dolls and the smaller "milliner's models".
Also present and correct is the Langan's signature mix of British nursery food (bangers and mash, 'a very good fish pie') and French brasserie classics (moules marinières, lobster bisque, snails with garlic).
There wasn't, sad to say, enough bisque sauce to justify the extra spoon, but that's just greed talking.
Statuary marble was reproduced at side-table and chimney-piece size for Pooters in Parian ware, a sort of bisque porcelain made by Minton.
The shellfish bisque, a deep amber sensation of pure crustacean, was served with poached lobster and vegetable spaghetti.
He organised regular visits from sex workers, had a cell phone to conduct business and attended favoured inmate parties with drink and lobster bisque.
