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Dishes, described as witty and sexy, are an exercise in tickling tastebuds and nothing to do with nourishment.
All of which means, by the way, that your chances of finding the exact dishes described here diminish from this moment on.
It was published the year I was born, and quite a few of the dishes described in its pages now seem hopelessly dated.
Some of the recipes are drawn from dishes described in the books, and many of the authors contribute essays on the meaning of food in their work, making this a great reference for any literary food-lover.
Chocolate brownie, strawberry cheesecake and the victoria sponge were the other desserts to make it into the list of dishes described as "food heaven", while steak and ale pie and beef Wellington came in at 10 and 13 respectively.
Simon Munnery won the award for innovation for La Concepta, a pop-up restaurant for four diners with non-existent dishes, described as the "fringiest fringe experience of 2011" by Guardian critic Brian Logan when it was staged at the Edinburgh festival.
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Appearing at the very bottom of the menu was a dish described as a Café L'Europe Classic: wiener schnitzel.
In general, though, servers were willing and charming, if overly prone to injecting words like excellent and wonderful with every dish described.
There's a kind of humility, too, in the dish described, in aw-shucks fashion, as "boiled country chicken with vegetables".
The terse treatment of offerings on the plain, typed menu (a dish described simply as "pork. beans. carrots". is $22) hardly does them justice.
I did not expect the dish described as "bacon and egg" to appear in a tart shell the size of my palm.
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