The Archive · 1939

The All-Green Dinner

Fashions in food keep pace with fashions in dress and. furnishings West-End restaurants and households are going in for one-colour meals. The vogue started the other night the serving -of an -all-green dinner on an all-green table cloth, all-green crockery. First came green melon which gave place to green vegetable consomme. Sole covered with green Venetian cream was followed by a green cold chicken and salad dish and green pistachio ices.

matching "glasses guests drank green' cocktails and green hock. Gréme de monthe also put appearance at this dinner party, one of many London Season frivolities.

'The. one-colour meal. is. not likely to be taken very seriously, but a new summer "drink, sampled' at a St. James's Palace garden party attended by" Queen Mary, promises great popularity. Teed chocolate is simply made by adding the chocolate to ice-cold" milk, The mixture is. the whipped and topped by cream and crystallized. violets

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