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Diego Velázquez portrayed a woman poaching eggs in a glazed earthenware chafing dish over charcoal. A chafing dish is a metal cooking or serving pan on a stand with an alcohol burner holding chafing fuel below it. It is used for cooking at table, notably in gueridon service, or as a food warmer for keeping dishes at a buffet warm.
A gueridon trolley typically has a gas burner with a chafing dish for cooking or heating food and a cupboard for the necessary ingredients, which may include condiments, liquor, cream, butter, oil, and other ingredients; service equipment such as knives, spoons, platters, and so on. [3]
Helen Brown's West Coast Cook Book (1952), Chafing Dish Book (1950) Helen Evans Brown (1904–1964) was an American chef and cookbook writer. She was a nationally known expert and wrote regular food columns, as well as collecting cookbooks from other authors.
Also apophthegm. A terse, pithy saying, akin to a proverb, maxim, or aphorism. aposiopesis A rhetorical device in which speech is broken off abruptly and the sentence is left unfinished. apostrophe A figure of speech in which a speaker breaks off from addressing the audience (e.g., in a play) and directs speech to a third party such as an opposing litigant or some other individual, sometimes ...
The 18th edition of the dictionary, published in 2009. Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, sometimes referred to simply as Brewer's, is a reference work containing definitions and explanations of many famous phrases, allusions, and figures, whether historical or mythical.
The Romantic movement in English literature of the early 19th century has its roots in 18th-century poetry, the Gothic novel and the novel of sensibility. [6] [7] This includes the pre-Romantic graveyard poets from the 1740s, whose works are characterized by gloomy meditations on mortality, "skulls and coffins, epitaphs and worms". [8]
A new edition of the Book of Common Prayer of the Church of England (this edition remains the officially authorised book to the present day). 1664. La Thébaïde (play) – Jean Racine; 1665. Alexandre le Grand (Alexander the Great) (play) – Jean Racine; Memoires of François Bassompierre (posthumous) Saptapaykar – Alaol (in Bengali) 1666
Rice chaff. Chaff (/ tʃ æ f /; also UK: / tʃ ɑː f /) [1] is dry, scale-like plant material such as the protective seed casings of cereal grains, the scale-like parts of flowers, or finely chopped straw.