 | Louisa Stuart Costello - 1844 - 450 pages
...satisfied, throughout the period of her stay in Spain, with the country and the people ; and observes : " There is not, in the Christian world, better wines...besides Sherry and Canary. Their water tastes like milk, then- corn white to a miracle, and their wheat makes the sweetest and best bread in the world : bacon... | |
 | Lady Anne Harrison Fanshawe - 1907 - 766 pages
...and country. I find it a received opinion that Spain affords not food either good or plentiful. Sure it is that strangers that neither have skill to choose...beyond belief good ; the Segovia veal much larger, whiter, and fatter than ours. Mutton most excellent ; capons much better than ours. They have a small... | |
 | 1928 - 802 pages
...luxe, v. IV, p. 219. 167. Entra el besugo: Lady Fanshawe (Memoirs, p. 165) seemed to like Spanish food: "There is not in the Christian world better wines than their midland (ie, southern) wines, especially sherry and canary. Their water tastes like milk, and their wheat makes... | |
 | Katie Hickman - 2002 - 382 pages
...master.* In fact everything she saw or experienced in Spain, even the food, was fit only for kings. There is not in the Christian world better wines than...beyond belief good; the Segovia veal much larger, whiter and fatter than ours. Mutton most excellent; capons much better than ours . . . The cream called... | |
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... there is not in the Christian world better wines than their midland wines are especially, besides sherry and Canary. Their water tastes like milk ; their corn white to a miracle, and their wheat makes the sweetest and best bread in the world ; bacon... 