aquaintance Madame la Presidente at Paris, lay
about them with greater intrepidity. To be sure,
it was a splendid repast, quite a banquet. We had
manjar branco and manjar real, and among other
good things a certain preparation of rice and
chicken which suited me exactly, and no wonder,
for this excellent mess had been just tossed up by
Donna Isabel de Castro with her own illustrious
hands, in a nice little kitchen adjoining the
queen’s apartment, in which all the utensils are
of solid silver.’
The Travel-Diaries of William Beckford of Fonthill
edited by Guy Chapman
RISOTTO WITH MUSHROOMS
This is a very simple form of
risotto and, needless to say, all
sorts of things can be added – slices
of chicken, sautéd chicken livers,
beef marrow. It should also be