He impressed London hostesses by his great appetite for oriental pilaff (his aides cornered the dwindling London rice stocks), his fine Greek cigarets, the quantities of boiling .
The Duke, Duchess and guests sat down at a long table, washed down caviar, crawfish, pilaff de monton and pear melba with an Alsatian vintage and Champagne rose ('28).
But the King had plenty for himself, his party, and for a banquet of spitted laham-mashwy and rice pilaff for the ship's officers.