{"id":92598,"date":"2017-11-28T16:55:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-28T16:55:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2023-01-06T20:58:05","modified_gmt":"2023-01-06T20:58:05","slug":"the-gargantuan-appetite-of-edward-vii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/2017\/11\/28\/the-gargantuan-appetite-of-edward-vii\/","title":{"rendered":"The Gargantuan Appetite of Edward VII"},"content":{"rendered":"
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King Edward VII appetite for food was on a gargantuan scale. In her book \u2018Edward VII and <\/span>His Circle<\/span>\u2019 from 1956 Virginia Cowles informs the reader:<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u2018Although King Edward ate a Continental breakfast when he was abroad, he always liked \u2018an English Breakfast\u2019 consisting of haddock, poached eggs, bacon, chicken and woodcock, before setting out on a day\u2019s shooting or racing. <\/span><\/div>\n
Luncheon and dinner, of course, were meals that stretched from ten to fifteen courses, and tea was an elaborate affair with every sort of scone and crumpet, tart and roll and cake. Besides this, snacks consisted of lobster salad and cold chicken were often served at eleven in the morning to appease the King\u2019s hunger, and even after dinner a plate of sandwiches, and sometimes a quail or a cutlet, was sent to the Royal apartments.\u2019<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

King Edward VII appetite for food was on a gargantuan scale. In her book \u2018Edward VII and His Circle\u2019 from 1956 Virginia Cowles informs the reader: \u2018Although King Edward ate a Continental breakfast when he was abroad, he always liked \u2018an English Breakfast\u2019 consisting of haddock, poached eggs, bacon, chicken and woodcock, before setting out […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":92599,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t