The English Hunt Breakfast

October, 1967

The English Hunt BreakfastWhenever a foreigner visiting Great Britain is, tempted to fault English cooking, John Bull has an unassailable comeback: his British breakfast. The sumptuous arguments on its behalf are still found in English country homes, where seemingly endless rows of bone-china tureens and silver chafing dishes are banked on the English sideboard. The evidence is incontestable: scrambled eggs and gammon, tender kidneys in madeira, fried lobster cutlets, deviled pheasant legs, cold...