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Updated: June 11, 2025
Count up your injuries, in its side-dishes of ailing sweetbreads in white poultices, of apothecaries' powders in rice for curry, of pale stewed bits of calf ineffectually relying for an adventitious interest on forcemeat balls.
Besides plain meat and game of different kinds, with the ordinary accompaniments of wine and bread, they were accustomed to place before their guests a vast number of side-dishes, together with a great variety of sauces. They ate with the hand, as is still the fashion in the East, and were sufficiently refined to make use of napkins.
Danglars felt his own not to be very well supplied just then, and gradually the man appeared less ugly, the bread less black, and the cheese more fresh, while those dreadful vulgar onions recalled to his mind certain sauces and side-dishes, which his cook prepared in a very superior manner whenever he said, "Monsieur Deniseau, let me have a nice little fricassee to-day."
On this occasion they decided to have some ox-tail soup, grilled mullet, undercut of beef with mushrooms, raviolis in the Italian fashion, hazel-hens from Russia, and a salad of truffles, without counting caviare and kilkis as side-dishes, a glace pralinee, and a little emerald-coloured Hungarian cheese, with fruit and pastry.
The dishes were marvelous side-dishes of emeralds, and roasts of gold on silver salvers. Every one ate heartily except the bride, who begged her husband for a little bread. "Bring the copper bread," said the King of the Mines. Marienka could not eat it. "Bring the silver bread," said he. Marienka could not eat it. "Bring the gold bread," said he, at length. Marienka could not eat it.
"I encountered," says Meissner, "government carters served with chickens, pastry and game, whilst at the traveler's table there was simply an old leg of mutton and a few poor side-dishes." The following is a specimen.
"Sir," says the parlor servant in a whisper to his master, "the cook doesn't know what on earth to do!" "What's the matter?" "You said nothing to her, sir: and she has only two side-dishes, the beef, a chicken, a salad and vegetables." "Caroline, didn't you give the necessary orders?" "How did I know that you had company, and besides I can't take it upon myself to give orders here!
How we Dining-out Snobs sneer at your cookery, and pooh-pooh your old hock, and are incredulous about your four-and-six-penny champagne, and know that the side-dishes of to-day are RECHAUFFES from the dinner of yesterday, and mark how certain dishes are whisked off the table untasted, so that they may figure at the banquet tomorrow.
The vestibule in which three servants were waiting to take their overcoats, the billiard-room and the pair of drawing-rooms, the plants in china vases, the bronzes on the mantel-shelves, the gold wands on the panelled walls, the heavy curtains, the wide armchairs this display of luxury struck them at once as a mark of courtesy towards them; and, when they entered the dining-room, at the sight of the table laden with meats in silver dishes, together with the row of glasses before each plate, the side-dishes here and there, and a salmon in the middle, every face brightened up.
I will change my plate, however, and try some of the rabbit." There were several side-dishes on the table, containing what appeared to be the ordinary French rabbit a very delicious morceau, which I can recommend. "Pierre," cried the host, "change this gentleman's plate, and give him a side-piece of this rabbit au-chat." "This what?" said I. "This rabbit au-chat."
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