APPETITE
According to Oscar, famed chef of the Waldorf Hotel, while he was in charge of the private rooms at Delmonico's the American actress Lillian Russell ate more food than Diamond Jim Brady (famous for his enormous appetite).
During his creative periods, French author Honore de Balzac (1799-1850), the author of La Comédie humaine, shut himself away, drinking too much coffee and eating only eggs and fruit. When he re-emerged however, be displayed a gargantuan appetite. At the Véry restaurant, he was seen to devour "a hundred Ostend oysters, twelve cutlets of salt-meadow mutton, a duck with turnips, two partridges and a Normandy sole", followed by desserts, fruit, coffee, and liqueurs.
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