Ms. Jones herself was raised on perhaps the plainest of all plain fare: Depression-era and wartime New England cookery, with its cooked-unto-death vegetables, creamed meat on toast and "the dreaded" boiled salt cod with boiled salt potatoes on Fridays.
Prior to opening, rumours were abound regarding the dishes to be served at Dinner, including one report from The Guardian which claimed that an ice-cream meat pie was to appear on the menu.
They don't eat butter and cream with meat.
You can order, among the pasta selections, rigatoni with sausage and cream or meat lasagna.
Schedule M details the cost of delivering cream, coal, meat, water and groceries to the Connecticut house and the wages of Twain's entourage.
"Everywhere you look it's soy milk, soy ice cream, soy meat, soy I don't know what all," he complains.
They serve up classic dishes of the region, such as tagliatelle bolognese, sausages with polenta, and dishes made with lots of cream and meat.
Considering the generous quantities of cream, crab meat and tomato used in its seafood soup, the David Finney Inn could hardly fail to produce a small masterpiece of old-fashioned American cooking, and the Arsenal on the Green Restaurant, housed in a structure built in 1809 to store ammunition, produced a model spinach and bacon salad.
The presenters' eccentricity, their love of cream and meat and very rich food, the unscripted whimsy of their on-screen exchanges and, of course, their physical presence and demeanour made them unforgettable – as if two women of a certain age perambulating Britain in an uncertainly piloted motorcycle combination was not already enough to fix them in our memory.
While the UK sweltered under the first prolonged heatwave in seven years last month, it wasn't just sun cream, barbeque meat and alcohol that were flying off the shelves at the country's retailers.
