Kettner's Book of the Table

Every food on the Victorian table gets its history, its etymology and a strong opinion — the wittiest cookery book of 1877, written in secret by a Times leader-writer and named for London's most fashionable restaurant.

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There is a great defect in this volume, nothing being said in it of American cookery, though much has to be said in every cookery book of food which we owe to America-as the turkey, the potato, the tomato, vanilla, red pepper. Let us hope that in a future edition there will be no such gap.

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