They had been fed a hunting breakfast, so called because a kedgeree, the dish identified with fox hunting, was on the bill.

For decades it was the most popular dish served in the Ladies' Grill at breakfast, and it is one of the few old Palace dishes that still survive.

The most that was accomplished was adding Mrs. Beige's tray to the dish pile, and by means of repeated threats, on an ascending scale, seeing that the girls dressed themselves, after a fashion.

Eggs and ambergris was reportedly Charles II's favourite dish.

Bubble and squeak was a popular dish during World War II, as it was an easy way of using leftovers during a period when most foods were subject to rationing.

Couscous was elected as the third favorite dish of French people in 2011 in a study by TNS Sofres for magazine Vie Pratique Gourmand and the first in East of France.

These early mentions show that couscous spread rapidly, but generally that couscous was common from Tripolitania to the west, while from Cyrenaica to the east the main cuisine was Egyptian, with couscous as an occasional dish.

Elaborate and showy dishes were the result, such as tourte parmerienne which was a pastry dish made to look like a castle with chicken-drumstick turrets coated with gold leaf.

Ragout, a stew still central to French cookery, makes its first appearance as a single dish in this edition as well ; prior to that, it was listed as a garnish.

Its first dish, Antenna One ( dubbed " Arthur "), was built in 1962 to link with Telstar.

In reference to the dish barbecued dog in The Hollywood Hall of Shame, the authors explain that it was " a snack which produced a mixed reaction among the representatives of an industry that had given the world Lassie, Rin Tin Tin, Benji, Phyllis Diller, and Muki the Wonder Hound.

" In Burns's lifetime haggis was a common dish of the poor as it was nourishing yet very cheap, being made from leftover parts of a sheep ( the commonest livestock in Scotland ) otherwise thrown away.

The Grail was considered a bowl or dish when first described by Chrétien de Troyes.

For Chrétien a grail was a wide, somewhat deep dish or bowl, interesting because it contained not a pike, salmon or lamprey, as the audience may have expected for such a container, but a single Mass wafer which provided sustenance for the Fisher King ’ s crippled father.

The rapid growth of these bacteria was noted by Fredeking: " Normally it takes about three days for a sample of P. multocida to cover a petri dish ; ours took eight hours.

In Mexico, Nachos are considered an American dish that was falsely inspired by the Mexican totopo, a type of toasted flatbread sometimes used for dipping in salsa.

Like many Italian dishes, minestrone was probably originally not a dish made for its own sake, like for example the ancient Roman green onion soup " Patella Lucretiana ", or Lucrezio's dish.

One argues that in the 17th and 18th centuries minestrone emerged as a soup using exclusively fresh vegetables and was made for its own sake ( meaning it no longer relied on left-overs ), while the other school of thought argues that the dish had always been prepared exclusively with fresh vegetables for its own sake since the pre-Roman " pulte ", but the name minestrone lost its meaning of being made with left-overs.

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It was a fortuitous accident: in his laboratory in the basement of St. Mary's Hospital in London ( now part of Imperial College ), Fleming noticed a Petri dish containing Staphylococcus plate culture he mistakenly left open, was contaminated by blue-green mould, which formed a visible growth.

In many parts of Asia, particularly India, Malaysia, and Singapore, the word " gravy " is used to refer to any thickened liquid part of a dish.

Ketupat is a popular traditional celebrative dish for Eid ul-Fitr meal in Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and Southern Thailand.

It is served as a dim sum dish in Hong Kong, Singapore, and Malaysia.

The Javanese dish gurame and more so ikan asem, also known as ikan asam ( sweet and sour fish, commonly a carp or river fish ) is served throughout Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore ; some dishes in Manado, Sulawesi and Maluku cuisines use tamarind.

Rojak ( Malaysian and Singaporean spelling ) or Rujak ( Indonesian spelling ) is a traditional fruit and vegetable salad dish commonly found in Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore.

Nasi lemak ( Jawi: ناسي لمق ) is a fragrant rice dish cooked in coconut milk and " pandan " leaf commonly found in Malaysia, where it is considered the national dish ; Brunei ; Singapore ; Riau Islands ; and Southern Thailand.

Nasi lemak is widely eaten in Malaysia and Singapore, even as a dish served in Malaysian schools.

Commonly a breakfast dish in both countries, it is normally sold at hawker food centres in Singapore and roadside stalls in Malaysia.

In Thailand, " โรด ี" refers to the maida paratha — known in Indonesia as roti maryam, roti cane or roti konde, Malaysia as roti canai and in Singapore as roti prata — which is sometimes drizzled with condensed milk, rolled up, and eaten as a hot snack, or fried with egg as a larger dish.

Nasi Minyak, a dish commonly served at Malays weddings in Malaysia and Singapore, is also generally referred to as Nasi Beriani.

Char kway teow, literally " stir-fried ricecake strips ", is a popular noodle dish in Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei and Singapore.

The dish was ( and still is in some places in Malaysia and Singapore ) typically prepared at hawker stalls.

Hainanese chicken rice is often considered as the " national dish " of Singapore, and is often served at international expositions and global events abroad, and in Singaporean-run restaurants overseas.

Singapore, like Malaysia, offers other variations of this dish, which include the use of roasted instead of steamed chicken.

* Hainanese chicken rice, a popular dish in Singapore and Malaysia

In Malaysia and Singapore, government, community and business leaders often take the lead in serving the dish as part of official functions during the festive period or in private celebrity dinners.

Sliced fish soup is a dish in Singapore.

* Hainanese chicken rice (), steamed chicken served with rice cooked in chicken stock ; normally eaten with chili sauce, dark soy sauce, and ginger paste ; a common variation is using roast chicken instead of steamed chicken ; this is considered the landmark dish of Singapore ; it is available in Hainan, where it originated in WenChang City, however, the Singapore variation of the dish bears only a slight resemblance to the original dish as served in Hainan

Tracing its origins to Quebec in the 1950s, it has become a widespread and popular dish throughout Canada.

The dish originated in rural Quebec, Canada, in the late 1950s.

Carpetbag steak or carpetbagger steak is a luxury dish, probably of American derivation, popular in the 1950s and 1960s in Australia and New Zealand.

The dish originated in rural Quebec, Canada, in the late 1950s.

In Japan, where the dish is called mābō tōfu ( マーボー豆腐 ), it was introduced by Chen Kenmin who opened the first Sichuanese restaurant in Tokyo in the 1950s.

Russian and Chinese immigrants, as well as U. S. servicemen stationed in pre-Communist China, brought several variants of the dish to the United States, which may account for its popularity during the 1950s.