“served up naked on a silver dish”
Thus her name, ‘The Sprout of Brussels”.
Glad to be around for the 200th anniversary. The Napoleonic Wars is one of my favorite historical subjects. :)
Awesome pice of history to own.
This is really embarrassing, but I didn’t know about Wellington. And it’s explains a Woody Allen Movie joke I never got for more than 25 years until now :)
The movie had Napoleon in it and A general was complaining to a chef that his Beef Wellington had to taste better than the Napoleon dessert. I always wondered why they picked beef Wellington lol
“mud-streaked”? Couldn’t Sotheby’s at least had it cleaned before putting it on sale?