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It is the most delicious way chicken was ever cooked." This is the recipe as Coppa gave it to us, his little wife standing at his side and giving, now and then, a suggestion as Coppa's memory halted: Chicken Portola a la Coppa Take a fresh cocoanut and cut off the top, removing nearly all of the meat.
At that time there grew up a mushroom crop of so-called restaurants in Columbus avenue close to Barbary Coast such as Caesar's, the Follies Cabaret, Jupiter and El Paradiso, where space was reserved in the middle of the floor for dancing. Coppa emulated the new idea by fitting out a gorgeous basement room at the corner of Kearny and Jackson, which he called the Neptune Palace.
Sam Leggo can tell you all about it" Abe jerked a thumb in the direction of North Inniscaw Farm. "He and his father used to hunt them, one time, along with Phil Cara of St. Hugh's. You know where the old adit goes into the cliff under Carn Coppa?
We asked Coppa what he considered his best dish and he gave us the Irishman's reply by asking another question: "What do you think of it?" There are so many to choose from that our answer was difficult but we finally stopped at "Chicken Portola." It was then that the old smile came back to Coppa's face. "Ah! Chicken Portola. That is my own idea.
Even when clear of the woods her companions observed the prohibition she had laid upon them at the start, and exchanged scarcely a word. "You have followed well," said Vashti, as they reached the foot of Pare Coppa. She pointed to the mass of shadow ahead, and the granite blocks on the summit faintly touched by the starlight. "I know now what it feels like to command soldiers, and it feels good.
Leggo declares that it took him less than fifteen minutes to reach the farm, find the lantern, and return with it to the lower gate of Parc Coppa; also that he used his best speed because the dusk was gathering. As he reached the gate he heard a shot from somewhere on the edge of the cliffs. This did not perturb him, for he supposed that the Lord Proprietor was potting at a stray rabbit.
The old Coppa restaurant in Montgomery street became a memory and on its ashes came the new one, located in Pine street between Montgomery and Kearny streets, and for a number of years this remained the idol of Bohemia until changed conditions drove the tide of patronage far up toward Powell, Ellis, Eddy and O'Farrell streets.
Well, Tregarthen swung off in a huff, took his way down across Pare Coppa it was there, just under the Cam, that the outbreak occurred apparently for the landing-quay by the school, where his boat lay. He left Sir Cæsar and Sam Leggo standing there." "At what time?" "The time, according to Leggo, was close upon sunset.
The three men had reached Coppa Parc, an enclosure of twelve acres bounded along the north by the cliffs' edge, and deriving its name from a mass of granite rock Carn Coppa that, rising in ledges from near the middle of the field, ran northward until it broke away precipitously, overhanging the sea. He appealed to Eli. "Come, what does Mr. Tregarthen say to it?
"No, sir." "The Lord Proprietor is missing." "Missing?" Tregarthen set down his faggots and stared at the Commandant. "He has been missing since yesterday at dusk. I understand that you were in his company shortly before then, on Carn Coppa?" "That is so, sir. I left him and Sam Leggo standing together there at the top of the field."
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