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For some reason, remembered a classic.

In Russia and the nobility and the merchants knew an expert in food and drink. V. Gilyarovsky wrote about this a lot of interesting things. In inn test used to go every day millionaire IV Chizhev. It was a huge growth in the old man, who sat down at the table about four hours, alone, eating for two hours and dozed between courses. Menu it was such:

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portion of the cold or the beluga sturgeon with horseradish cream, caviar, two plates of crayfish soup, fish or selyanki selyanki from the kidneys with two pies, and then roasted suckling pig, veal or fish, depending on the season. Then necessarily Botvin with sturgeon, sturgeon and dry grated sturgeon. Then the third dish always pan Guriev porridge. Sometimes allowed himself to retreat, replacing Pies baydakovskim pie - a huge pie stuffed with twelve tiers, where everything was, from the layer of burbot liver, and ending with a layer of bone marrow in black oil. At the same time drinking red and white wine, and After dozing for half an hour, went home to sleep, with eight in the evening to be in the Merchants' Club, there is an entire evening on a special order is a great company, and drink champagne. I ordered the club he was always himself, and none of Kompaneets he was not contradicted.

         - I have these different Folies-Joly yes frikasekurase not supposed to. In Russian we eat - but the belly does not hurt, according to doctors not mechemsya, rinsed in foreign countries are not shaken.

     Into old age in good health lived this gourmet ".