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Lobster
Appears in
Published 1975
Peacock, in Crotchet Castle, a satire on the Gothic novel, written in 1831, makes the Rev. Dr
‘Chocolate, coffee, tea, cream, eggs, ham, tongue, cold fowl – all these are good and bespeak good knowledge in him who sets them forth: but the touchstone is fish: anchovy is the first step, prawns and shrimps the second: and I laud him who reaches even to these: potted char and lampreys are the third . . . but lobster is, indeed, matter for a May morning and demands a rare combination of knowledge and virtue in him who sets it forth.’