Use and abuse of the potato--Its eccentricities--Its origin--Hawkins, not Raleigh, introduced it into England--With or without the "jacket"?--Don't let it be _à-la_-ed--Benevolence and large-heartedness of the cabbage family--Pease on earth--Pythagoras on the bean--"Giving him beans"--"Haricot" a misnomer--"Borston" beans--Frijoles--The carrot--Crécy soup--The Prince of Wales--The Black Prince and the King of Bohemia 111-122 CHAPTER XI VEGETABLES (_continued_) The brief lives of the best--A vegetable with a pedigree-- Argenteuil--The Elysian Fields--The tomato the emblem of love--"Neeps"--Spinach--"Stomach-brush"--The savoury tear-provoker--Invaluable for wasp-stings--Celery merely cultivated "smallage"--The "_Apium_"--The parsnip--O Jerusalem!--The golden sunflower--How to get pheasants--A vegetarian banquet--"Swelling wisibly" 123-133 CHAPTER XII CURRIES Different modes of manufacture--The "native" fraud--"That man's family"--The French _kari_--A Parsee curry--"The oyster in the sauce"--Ingredients--Malay curry--Locusts--When to serve--What to curry--Prawn curry--Dry curry, champion recipe--Rice--The Bombay duck 134-146 CHAPTER XIII SALADS Nebuchadnezzar _v._ Sydney Smith--Salt?--No salad-bowl--French origin--Apocryphal story of Francatelli--Salads _and_ salads--Water-cress and dirty water--Salad-maker born not made--Lobster salad--Lettuce, Wipe or wash?--Mayonnaise--Potato salad--Tomato ditto--Celery ditto--A memorable ditto 147-157 CHAPTER XIV SALADS AND CONDIMENTS Roman salad--Italian ditto--Various other salads--Sauce for cold mutton--Chutnine--Raw chutnee--Horse-radish sauce--Christopher North's sauce--How to serve a mackerel--_Sauce Tartare_--Ditto for sucking pig--Delights of making _Sambal_--A new language 158-169 CHAPTER XV SUPPER Cleopatra's supper--Oysters--Danger in the Aden bivalve--Oyster stew--Ball suppers--Pretty dishes--The _Taj Mahal_--Aspic--Bloater paste and whipped cream--Ladies' recipes--Cookery colleges--Tripe--Smothered in onions--North Riding fashion--An hotel supper--Lord Tomnoddy at the "Magpie and Stump" 170-180 CHAPTER XVI SUPPER (_continued_)