[Sca-cooks] Russian food

[Sandra Kisner]

>us that he waited until no one was watching, strolled over to the
>fireplace, and repeatedly stabbed the roasting mutton with his knife,
>causing it to leak its precious bodily fluids and its purity of
>essence (okay, guys, what am I quoting there?) into the drip pan,
>leaving behind a dry husk in the shape of a leg of mutton. Which,
>Savarin says, the English travellers, being English, never noticed.
>He also says the scrambled eggs were excellent...

He didn't think too kindly of those English, did he?  Then again, Brig. 
Gen. Jack D. Ripper probably wouldn't have liked them either.

Sandra