Missus Astor's Ball

The famous canvas back duck and the maryland terrapin were two signature dishes of the gilded age. A ball supper was usually a buffet arrangement, served continuously throughout the early hurs of the morning,. But not at missus astor's ball. She preferred a sit down affair, after a bit of dancing, of course, at around one in the morning. As we now see, a certain gilded age exists even to day, although perhaps without dinners of canvas back duck plates of gold, diamond napkin rings and live swans on your table. We will be in london this friday for us flying out with bowery boys our friends from york city