Oysters with champagne-vinegar mignonette, fig and stilton salad with port wine dressing, venison tenderloin with madeira green peppercorn sauce, and floating islands with lemon-scented custard sauce and raspberries. From fancy food to many support staff to mostly carefree luxury, the critically acclaimed TV show and later movie Downton Abbey started in 2010, giving unique fictious glimpses, though historically realistic, of a wealthy, privileged, and noble family living in splendour one-hundred years ago.
The aristocrats never have to lift their fingers to receive service from a team of butlers, footmen (servers), maids, cooks, and groundskeepers. Then on top of privilege, the family looks down upon those who must go to work to earn.
