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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III BELGIAN TOWNS The food of the country Antwerp Spa Bruges Oatende. I, The Editor, cannot do better in commencing this chapter than to introduce you to H. L., a litterateur and a "fin gourmet," living in Belgium, who has written the notes on " the food of the country " on Antwerp and Spa, and to whom I am indebted for the entire succeeding chapter on the Brussels' restaurants. The Food Of The Country The Belgian is a big eater and a bird-eater. As a rule, in Belgium the restaurant that can put forth the longest menu will attract the most customers. There are people in Brussels who regularly travel out to Tirlemont, a little Flemish town nearly twenty miles away, to partake of a famous table-d'hote dinner to which the guests sit down at one o'clock, and from which they seldom rise before five. The following is a specimen carte of one of these Gargantuan gorges served in December. Huitres de Burnham. Potage Oxtail. Saumon de Hollande a la Rustic. Bouch£es a la Reine. Chevreuil Diane Chasseresse. Becasscs bardees sur Canape. Tete de veau en Tortue. Surprises Grazilla (a Sorbet). Pluviers dore"s poire au vin. Jambonneau au Madere. Petites feves de Marais a la Creme. Salmis de Caneton Sauvage. Faisan de Bohcme. Salade de Saison. Dinde truffee Mayonnaise. Glace Vanille'e. Fruits. Gateaux. Dessert. All this for five francs! with a bottle of Burgundy to wash it down, at any price from a crown to a pound. One thing that can safely be said about the Belgian restraurants is that a good bottle of Burgundy can nearly always be bought in both town and country. It is often told that the best Burgundy in the world is to be found in Belgian cellars. Whether this is a reputation maintained in honour of the Dukes of Burgundy who once rule...
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