Acclimatisation Society's dinner : held at Scott's Hotel, Collins Street West, on Wednesday, July 6, 1864
- Bib ID:
- 6374878
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Acclimatisation Society of Victoria
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item. SR 88 copy
- Printer:
- Collins Street East : Wilson and MacKinnon, Printers
- Description:
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- [Melbourne] : [Acclimatisation Society of Victoria], 1864
- 11 pages ; 21 cm
- Summary:
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A record of the second Acclimatisation Society of Victoria dinner, held for about 60 guests (including the Governor Sir Charles Darling), and described as "a fitting tribute to the cause of acclimatisation [and] a complete triumph of gastronomy." The dinner occupied three and a half hours and was followed by speeches, which are reproduced. Both indigenous and imported dishes are detailed in the menu, with the Australian cuisine including Sydney rock oysters, kangaroo tail, Yan Yean eels, vol au vont of frogs, wombat, bandicoot, parakeet, Murray lobster, venison (from Phillip Island), bronze-wing pigeon, brush turkey, rabbit (from Thomas Austin of Barwon Park, who introduced rabbits to Australia), mutton, lamb, guinea fowl, wild Goulburn pig, Cape Barron goose, Queensland yams and pineapple, etc., topped off with 14 wines from South Australia and New South Wales and 11 foreign wines.
- Notes:
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- Cover title.
- Reprinted from "The Yeoman".
- National Library of Australia's SR 88 copy lacks cover or title page.
- SR 88 copy also available online; http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-15075180
- Cited In:
- Ferguson, J.A. Bibliography of Australia, 5646.
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Acclimatisation Society of Victoria, issuing body
- Copyright:
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- Since 1934 [Created/Published Date + 70 Years]
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- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1864
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