Lady Catherine seemed gratified by their excessive admiration, and gave most gracious smiles, especially when any dish on the table proved a novelty to them.

In fact, chicken was dry with overcooking, and some dishes proved much too salty, to mention two lapses.

The dish proved ordinary, and not a little bland.

Lacking nearly enough beets or cheese, the dish proved less a salad than a leaning tower of lentils.

Some chefs claim they cook the dish to prove the freshness of the fish to the customer.

These dishes, though inexpensive at $5 to $7 a serving, proved far more unpleasantly strange than any of the local exotica we tried.

But plain, as this dish proves, can be lovely.

Sounding all too familiar, a dish of baked clams proved delightful.

Even an ordinary dish like beef soup ($4.00) proved to be much more exotic than its simple, straightforward description made it sound.

The usual basic dishes and the "specialties" proved equally good; the only difference was in the quantity of the featured meat or seafood.