FROG LEG SOUP.
Unusual Dishes Served to Gourmets. (Received December 4. 2 10 p.m.) LONDON, December 3. Cream soup with frog legs was among the dishes served to 300 gourmets at a dinner at the Savoy Hotel to-night on the occasion of the thirtieth annual Reunion des Gastronomes.” Other dishes were pike from the Rhone with crayfish sauce, a* new sweet made from kirsch chocolate and champagne biscuits. The gourmets sipped distilled Normandy cider midway through the din ner to promote digestion and whet the appetite, a custom dating from early Norman feasts in France.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20479, 4 December 1934, Page 7
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